Crested Butte Museum
Book of the Month Club
Join us for a monthly book club where we will explore and discuss both non-fiction and fiction works that explore the history of our valley and the lifestyles of those who lived lives similar to those who established the town of Crested Butte.
At the beginning of each month we will announce our book of the month.
With a $30 monthly subscription you will receive a copy of our book of the month, available for pick up at our Museum Gift Shop, and an invitation to our exclusive private book of the month club meetings, to occur on the fourth Friday of each month. At our club meetings, we will discuss the book of the month at the Museum while enjoying adult beverages, snacks, and great company.
If you are not interested in a monthly subscription, you can join us for one month/ one book for $35, paid at the Museum Gift Shop.
Museum Members will receive a limited edition book mark each month.
March
Book of the Month
“Nothing Daunted” by by Dorothy Wickenden.
In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in the wilds of northwestern Colorado. They lived with a family of homesteaders in the Elkhead Mountains and rode to school on horseback, often in blinding blizzards. Their students walked or skied, in tattered clothes and shoes tied together with string. The young cattle rancher who had lured them west, Ferry Carpenter, had promised them the adventure of a lifetime. He hadn’t let on that they would be considered dazzling prospective brides for the locals.
Nearly a hundred years later, Dorothy Wickenden, the granddaughter of Dorothy Woodruff, found the teachers’ buoyant letters home, which captured the voices of the pioneer women, the children, and other unforgettable people the women got to know. In reconstructing their journey, Wickenden has created an exhilarating saga about two intrepid women and the “settling up” of the West.
Upcoming Book of the Month Books & Museum Host:
March: “Nothing Daunted” with Heather Seekatz
April: “Gilded Mountain” with Heather Seekatz
May: “The Melting Pot” – with Alyssa Moore
June: “Reflections on a Western Town” – with Elise Myers
July: “Brushstrokes of Time” – with TBD
August: “How Crested Butte Became a Tourest Town” with Alyssa Moore & Roger Kahn
September: The Town that Said Hell No with Elise Myers & HCCA