Women of the Colorado Gold Rush

Author J.v.L. Bell presents the lives of ten unforgettable women who called Colorado home during the turbulent years of the Pikes Peak Gold Rush from her new book Women of the Colorado Gold Rush Era. The collection of biographies reveals the heroism of Native American, Hispanic, Anglo, and African American women whose perseverance, hard work, and wisdom helped lay the foundation for the state of Colorado. In her presentation the author discusses the reasons for writing the work, the methods of research, an overview of Colorado women's lives, and the highlights a few of the biographies.

Presenter: J.v.L Bell has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Colorado State University and an M.A. from Colorado School of Mines. She loves writing and researching Colorado history. In 2015 she left engineering and sold her first Colorado historical mystery, The Lucky Hat Mine, to the Hansen Publishing Group. Women of the Colorado Gold Rush Era is her fifth publication. In 2022 she purchased Filter Press, a colorado publishing house that has been publishing books about Colorado's fascinating history since 1956.