Julia Archibald Holmes is credited with being the first woman to climb Pikes Peak in Pike National Forest. She would do so on August 5th of 1858. This mountain is part of the much larger Rocky Mountains in the United States. Join us for this episode and learn all about this great event from history.

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RESOURCES:

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/reform/jb_reform_holmes_1.html

http://climbing.about.com/od/historyofclimbing/a/JAHolmes.htm

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