Colorado Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff (Curiosities Series) Paperback – January 6, 2010

We loved reading these interesting stories

I did a book reading of this book at the retirement home where I live and it was loved by all of us. Very entertaining and informative. thank you for sharin all of these unique places.

Great Book. Helped make a nice trip.

I never would have known about all these intriguing areas if I hadn't found this book. We're using it to plan several rides with our motorcycle club. Can't wait!

Pam Grout's "Colorado Curiosities," takes you to "the road less traveled" (to borrow a book title by renowned author M. Scott Peck).Throughout her Colorado passage, Pam shows you that winding the "side-streets" of life not the "main drags" presents one with a more interesting life tapestry.Pam segments the "red colored earth" state by areas and points of interest: Eastern Colorado; College Towns; Denver; Lower Colorado; Mountain Towns; Crested Butte; Telluride; Northwestern Colorado; and South Central and Western Colorado. That way "the curious" will stay on-track.Why would anyone go straight north on Hwy. 30 to Boulder, Colorado, without stopping by the Greeley History Museum? While there one can view a rattlesnake flapper dress made from 50 deadly rattlesnakes.Greeley native Kate Slaughterbach became an overnight celebrity when she shot and pummeled 140 rattlesnakes to death in a few hourson October 25, 1925. Kate's rattler dress is the result of her heroic feat.And once you arrive in Boulder enjoy some "tea-time" as you whiff the peppermint vault at Celestial Seasonings headquarters in Boulder.Life certainly is more savory if you allow "a (peppermint) breather" to become your new way of living. Author Grout shows us the way.

Good to hear facts about different places in Colorado that I did not know.