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Tracking The Snow-shoe Itinerant
The Denver Post "His dramatic photographs show snowstorms hovering over desolate mountains, streams clogged with ice, the white bones of aspen trees covered with snow, brittle cold nights with bright stars like giant snowflakes. Sandra Dallas for theDenver Post continues. Breckenridge photographer Kent Gunnufson has used THE SNOWSHOE ITINERANT, the autobiography of the early-day Methodist circuit rider FR. John Dyer, as the basis of a photographic study of South Park and Summit County. Father Dyer’s diary, published 100 years ago, provides endless inspiration, since the preacher comments on everything from gold strikes to Godless men, from the price of a meal to the amount in the collection plate, and always he talks about the howling snow that falls 11 months of the year in the high country. "At one point Father Dyer despairs: ‘no pen or tongue can describe its awful appearance.’ But photographs can. And Gunnufson, like Father Dyer, is overwhelmed by the snow. His photographs are not of pretty mountain scenes but of the cold and awesome land at timberline that bedeviled Father Dyer. Popular Photography Magazine Regional and national publication reviews along with television exposure have been ecstatic. ""A celebration in words and pictures of a grand American Landscape," writes Dave Sargarin for the world’s leading photographic magazine, Popular Photography. He states candidly in his feature review, "The reason for this book’s being in these pages is the quality and interest of the photographs." Quality has sold this book to those interested in fine landscape photographic images both nationally as well as in countries around the world. The highest quality duotone printing process was used on the 60 reproductions. There are 128-9X11 inch pages in both hard and soft cover. Fine photographic books of this quality normally sell for $40 to $50. Often small art book editions like TRACKING THE SNOWSHOE ITINERANT will increase in value many times over the years to come. The Denver Public Library has already placed their copies in the Rare Book Department for posterity. Don’t miss out...get your copy of this small limited edition while they are available. Only a small number are left and TRACKING THE SNOWSHOE ITINERANT will not be reprinted. Have your copy personally autographed when purchased through Mountain Merchant in both soft and hard covers. Also available at amazon.com
I went back to Breckenridge, which shortly experienced a characteristic mining boom. A report was spread that about Breckenridge were immense bodies of gold quartz and carbonates, three feet deep. People of all classes came across the range, and, of course, the inevitable dance-house, with degraded women, fiddles, bugles, and many sorts of music, came tool There was a general hubbub from dark to daylight. The weary could hardly rest. Claims were staked out everywhere, and the prospector thought nothing of shoveling five feet of snow to start a shaft. Saloons, grocery-stores, carpenter-shops, and every kind of business sprang up, including stamp-mills and smelters.
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