Using fictional, third-person names in order to provide readers an impersonal outlook of the Western Slope as a whole, Colorado pioneers Henry and Martha Ripley detailed their family life and the truly amazing history being made all around them in this Western Reflection's reprint of the Ripleys' accurate and engaging autobiography, Hand-Clasp of the East and West. In 1877, the Ripleys, who operated a newspaper in Canon City, Colorado, decided to join the San Juan Excitement by moving to Ouray and starting the Ouray Times. Their month-long journey to the mining boomtown involved driving six...