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Harold DeWitt Roberts
1887–1956
A Denver attorney with a deep interest in the natural world, this mid-20th-century writer is best remembered for helping bring Colorado’s wildflowers to a wider audience. His work blends local knowledge, plainspoken guidance, and a clear affection for the Rocky Mountain landscape.
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Colorado Wild Flowers
by Harold DeWitt Roberts, Rhoda N. Roberts
About the author
Harold DeWitt Roberts (1887–1956) was an American writer and lawyer based in Denver, Colorado. Contemporary library and public-domain records connect him with Colorado Wild Flowers, a guide written with Rhoda N. Roberts and later preserved by Project Gutenberg.
The book grew out of work connected with the Denver Museum of Natural History, where Roberts was described as a prominent Denver attorney and a trustee of the museum. That background helps explain the feel of his writing: practical, civic-minded, and interested in making regional natural history accessible to general readers.
He also wrote Salt Creek, Wyoming: The Story of a Great Oil Field, showing an interest not only in plants and landscape but also in the history of the American West and its resources. While not a widely known literary figure today, his surviving work offers a useful snapshot of mid-century Western nonfiction and Colorado nature writing.