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"To a naturalist, intent upon knowing the secrets
of the natural world, the capture of the smallest bud
or insect gives as much pleasure as to have outwitted
and slain the fiercest grizzly in the mountains
or the largest buffalo on the plains."
- Martha Maxwell, 1878
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Martha Maxwell traveled to
Colorado Territory with the first wave of the Pike's Peak
Gold Rush in 1860. A self-educated naturalist and
artist, she found her passion and life's work quite
by accident and contributed to the development of
taxidermy and museum display with ideas and techniques
that are still used today. Martha was the first
woman to collect and prepare her own skins and
mounts.
She spent nearly eight continuous years
in the field in the Rocky Mountains, documenting
the presence of species previously not known to
live here. Martha is the first woman to have
a subspecies, otus asio maxwelliae - Maxwell's owl,
that she herself discovered named after her.
In 1876, she represented Colorado at the
Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia.HOME