Climb!: The History of Rock Climbing in Colorado

by Jeff Achey

Book Overview

The nineteenth-century eccentric Ida C. Craddock was by turns a secular freethinker, a religious visionary, a civil-liberties advocate, and a resolute defender of belly-dancing. Arrested and tried repeatedly on obscenity charges, she was deemed a danger to public morality for her candor about sexuality. By the end of her life Craddock, the nemesis of the notorious vice crusader Anthony Comstock, had become a favorite of free-speech defenders and women's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898868769
• ISBN13: 9780898868760
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.7" x 10.5"