Finding Aid created 1982. Most recent update December 2023 (JR).
Gift of Robert Rasor, 1982 (1 box), with many additions from the club over the years.
Scope and content: Records of a Colorado Springs men’s hiking club founded in 1903. Many members of the club taught or worked at Colorado College. See Frank Tucker’s 2002 book, Knights of the Mountain Trails: A Century of Hiking in the Mountains and Parks of the Pikes Peak Region. Annual reports, membership rosters, correspondence, journals, clippings, and memorabilia. 5 linear feet (11 boxes).
Inventory
Box 1a
Folder 1 Policies and permissions (includes discussion of issue of allowing women to join)
Folder 2 Annual reports
Folder 3 Membership rosters
Folder 4 Permissions for hiking particular areas
Folder 5 Membership process, invitations, and sponsorship chart
Folder 6 Albert R. Ellingwood (transcription of “Account of Tramps” 1909-1922)
Folder 7 Correspondence
Folder 8a Hike records / schedules 1947-1990s (includes information on Standley photos)
Box 1b
Folder 8b Hike records / schedules 2000s-ongoing
Box 2
Folder 9 Anniversaries
Folder 10 Poems and sketches
Folder 11 Forrest Allen
Folder 12 Florian Cajori
Folder 13 Lester Griswold
Folder 14 D.H. Leavens
Folder 15 Other touring groups
Folder 16 Robert Ormes, Donald P. Jenkins, Ted Zacharakis, Horst Richardson
Folder 17 Schubarth Trail materials
Folder 18 Cascade / Heizer Trail materials
Folder 19 Ute Pass Indian Trail materials
Folder 20 Histories of the club by Bryson, Fetler, Adams, Gibson, Feitz, Tucker, Ross, others
Folder 21 Financial Reports
Folder 22 Annual Meetings
Box 3
DVD labeled “Saturday Knights April-May 1987”
Audiotape of Sid Adams’s talk on the Saturday Knights, March 13, 1976
Audiotape of Sid Adams’s talk on the Saturday Knights, June 4, 1977
2 CDs of Harry Standley’s Saturday Knights photos, 1930s – 1951 (see Box 1 Folder 8)
CD of Carroll Malone’s Saturday Knights photos, 1948 – 1972 (2 copies)
CD labeled “Pryor”
Photo, 1950
Photos, 1980s
Photos, Heizer Trail, 1983
32 photos, Heizer Trail, 1989-1990
Photos, Royal Gorge, 1990
Photos, 1990s
9 photos, 90th anniversary, 1993
Photos 1994-1997
Photos, negatives, and CD, Centennial Celebration, July 2003
Photos, 2003 banquet
15 photos received 2011
Slides by George Gibson, 1985-1986 and undated
Slides by Jim Joyce, 1972-1988
Slides, 1973, photographer unknown
Handwritten list probably corresponding to something in this box, received 2011
Notes to accompany cataloged video VC 93-36 (1987 event)
Photos 1930s-50s received 2021 from Alan Houseman, son of Murl C. Houseman
Thumb drive with digital copies of various materials, received December 2023.
Box 4
Four photograph albums containing 412 photos, 1985-2003
CD of these photographs (labeled “Delashmut album,” 2 copies)
Single page of notes on the photographs
Box 5
Scrapbook: 1947-1990
Photographs 1959-May 2004 (from 3-ring binder)
Photographs June 2004-2013 (from 3-ring binder)
Centennial Celebration and Knights Peak (2003) (including silver medallion)
Box 5a
Maps and trail guides, including 15 U.S. Geological Survey maps, SpABA guide, GPS maps
Box 6 CARD FILES
non‑resident members
deceased members
Earl Bryson trip files
Monthly hiking schedule cards, 1961-1985
Box 7
Hike logs 1904, 1947-2007 along with a folder of samples and blanks
Box 8
Information on trails, parks, caves, includes hand-drawn maps
Alphabetical index of all Saturday Knight trails, 2003
Publicity / published articles
Obituaries and eulogies
Gold Camp Road dispute
Herbert Skinner Journal of the Earliest Saturday Knights from 1903, with transcription
Manly Ormes Hiking Journal, 1922‑1929, with folder of notes by unknown author and transcription
5 record books by George Gibson with his handwritten trip notes, 1980s and 1990s
Manuscript and notes, Frank Tucker’s published history Knights of the Mountain Trails (2002)
Sheet music for songs: “Climbing to Mt. Rosa,” “The Song of the Caves”
Box 9 OVERSIZE
2 Scrapbooks 1940-2003
