"Cave of the Winds Then and Now." Photography by Norman Thompson, text
by Richard Rhinehart. Westcliffe Publishers, Boulder, Colorado; 2011.
ISBN 978-1-56579-650-8. 11 (wide) by 8.5 inches, 112 pages, softbound.
$17.95.
This is a very clever book. The Cave of the Winds in Williams Canyon
at Manitou Springs, Colorado, has a long history as a show cave,
starting in March 1881, and this book was published on the occasion of
its hundred-thirtieth anniversary. It contains about a hundred pairs
of photographs, one in each pair old, from roughly 1880 to 1930, and
one recently taken to match as closely as possible the old scene. The
old photograph are in black-and-white, except a few hand-colored
postcards. The modern photos are of course in color. In addition to
illustrating the development of the cave and its surface facilities,
many are views of the canyon and sights within it, such as the Narrows
and the Temple of Isis, a cave remnant penetrating a small ridge. I
was struck by how much more vegetated the vicinity of the cave looks
in the modern photographs. Evidently the canyon had only begun to
recover even fifty years after a fire tore through it in 1847. Many of
the photos, old and new, are stereographs, providing another possible
use for the stereo viewer that was distributed with the guidebook for
the 2011 NSS convention in Glenwood Springs.
The text consists of a brief historical introduction and long captions
for the photographs. There is a good bit of redundancy, but this is
not bad in a book meant for browsing.--Bill Mixon
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