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Identifier: C1002013147 (find matches)
Title: Stop at Pike's Peak on your Way to or from the Expositions
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Manitou and Cog Wheel Route Pike's Peak Railway
Subjects: Pike's Peak Railway Panama-California Exposition Panama-Pacific International Exposition
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Contributing Library: The Committee of One Hundred
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arison. These European roads and the hills they sur-mount are insignificant only when compared to the great Cograilway that climbs from Manitou to the summit of the greatPikes Peak. A cave is the nucleus and principal feature of more than onesuccessful resort. Manitou has many caves—its Cave of the Windsbeing one of the most wonderful and highly developed in the world.They are not as large as Mammoth Cave, but they are morebeautiful, more interesting and more instructive, aboundingin all the wonders indigenous to caverns, from the giant stalactitesand stalagmites to the most delicate alabaster and frost-likecrystalizations. Easily accessible, easily traversed, electricallylighted, they are explored by many delighted thousands everyyear. And old civilizations! A visit to Cliff Dwellers* Canonmakes one think of the Chaldeans and the Egyptiansas upstart races. True, the wonders of Cliff DwellersCanon have been transplanted from their pristinelocation in southwestern Colorado to Manitou
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HALF-WAY HOUSE 17 But what of that? There is no attempt to deceive. They havebeen transplanted in their entirety; stone upon stone, a large partof the ruins are just as they lay for centuries, and the canon inwhich they now look so much at home is a picturesque and typicallocation. Ancient skulls, beads, grain and baked bread, pottery,utensils and relics are there in profusion. Real Indians, too; andall without a gratuitous journey of a thousand miles. The Garden of the Gods, crowded with Natures wonders, Iespartly within the town limits of Manitou. Near by, in a remarkablybeautiful cafion known as Glen Eyrie, is the magnificent estate ofthe late General William J. Palmer, railroad and empire builder,whose place in the annals of Colorado is second only to that of theillustrious Pike. Somewhat further removed—a trolley ride—is the beautifulSouth Cheyenne Canon, the home of the Seven Falls, immortalizedby Helen Hunt Jackson. Then there is the historic Ute Pass andits graceful Rainbo

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