Otto Mears and the San Juans

Otto Mears became a well-known figure in Colorado's early history. He was a brilliant and inventive man, but many people described him as cunning, dishonest, greedy, power-hungry, and self-serving. With the author's help, we come to see Mears for who he simply was, neither saint nor sinner, but just an adventurous, energetic man who dreamed dreams and made many of them come true.