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==Biography==
Holmes was born in 1838 in [[Noel, Nova Scotia]], Canada, and moved to [[Massachusetts]] with her family in 1848. Her father, James Archibald, was an [[abolitionist]], while her mother Julia was a strong supporter of [[women's suffrage]].<ref name=hike>{{cite news|title=Woman's 1858 hike to summit blazed trail|date=May 15, 2001|work=[[The Gazette (Colorado Springs)|The Gazette]]|first=Jeanne|last=Davant}}</ref> The Archibald family relocated again in 1854 to [[Lawrence, Kansas]], to assist in the abolitionist efforts sparked by the [[Kansas–Nebraska Act]] (see [[Bleeding Kansas]]); their Kansas home served as part of the [[Underground Railroad]].<ref name=ppld>{{cite web|url=http://more.ppld.org:8080/kids/colorado/biographies/JuliaAHolmes.pdf |title=Julia A. Holmes |publisher=[[Pikes Peak Library District]] |accessdate=May 25, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140525200406/http://more.ppld.org:8080/kids/colorado/biographies/JuliaAHolmes.pdf |archivedate=May 25, 2014 }}</ref> In 1857, she married James H. Holmes, an abolitionist whom she had met through her father's friend [[John Brown (abolitionist)|John Brown]].<ref name=hike/>
Julia and James Holmes traveled to the [[Rocky Mountains]] in [[Colorado]] in 1858 with a group of [[gold mining|gold miners]].<ref>{{cite news|title=She wore the pants this climb ; Talk details historic ascent of Pikes Peak by woman|date=January 25, 2009|first=Lance|last=Benzel|work=[[The Gazette (Colorado Springs)|The Gazette]]}}</ref> When the party arrived at the foot of [[Pikes Peak]], the Holmeses decided to attempt to climb the mountain with J. D. Miller and George Peck. They reached the summit on August 5, 1858, making Julia Holmes the first woman to have climbed Pikes Peak.<ref name=mag>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7xCfxJWgMGgC&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2|title=The Magnificent Mountain Women: Adventures in the Colorado Rockies|pages=2–6|first=Janet|last=Robertson|publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]]|year=2003}}</ref><ref name=women>{{cite book|chapter=Holmes, Julia Archibald (1838–1887)|year=2002|title=[[Women in World History]]|first=Morgan|last=Barbara}}</ref> From the summit, she wrote in a letter to her mother: "Nearly everyone tried to discourage me from attempting it, but I believed that I should succeed; and now here I am, and I feel that I would not have missed this glorious sight for anything at all."<ref name=mag/>
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