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Identifier: aroundcircle00denv (find matches)
Title: "Around the circle."
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Denver and Rio Grande railroad company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (Chicago, Knight, Leonard & co., printers)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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uliarity of which is thatit pierces the top of a mountain instead of its base. For six hundred feet ithas been blasted through the living rock, and such is its solidity that no ma-sonry is needed to support the superincumbent rock masses above. Whenthe train emerges from the tunnel it rolls out upon a bridge of trestlework setlike a balcony against the wall of stone. Beneath, to the left, is ToltecGorge. The traveler looks down fifteen hundred feet and, glancing upward,sees the opposite wall of the gorge rising a thousand feet above him. Thescene is one of the most thrilling and unique in the whole journey Aroundthe Circle. Below, at the bottom of the gorge, swirls and dashes a littlestream, whose waters are churned into sno;v-white foam, and the noise ofwhose progress comes faintly to the ear, borne upward from those tremendousdepths. An object of interest to all visitors to Toltec Gorge is the Garfield Memo-rial, a beautiful monument of granite, raised by the National Association of
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Around the Circle. 17 General Passenger Agents, who held service at this spot on the 26th day ofSeptember, 1881, at the time President Garfield was being buried at Cleve-land, Ohio. At Cumbres, the summit of the Cumbres range of mountains, is reachedan elevation of 10,115 feet, the journey of the descent is a trip fraughtwith great variety of scenery and abounding in interest. Here may be seenmountain meadows lush with vegetation, the surrounding hills being heavilytimbered and abounding in game. At Ignacio the Indian reservation is entered, and the rude tepees of theSouthern Utes cin be seen pitched along the banks of the Rio de las Florida.Occasionally a glimpse can be caught of a stolid brave, tricked out in all hissavage finery, gazing fixedly at the train as it speeds by. Frequently there isquite a little group of these aborigines at the station, and they are alwaysready to exchange bows and arrows, trophies of the chase, or specimens oftheir rude handiwork in return for very har

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  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Denver_and_Rio_Grande_railroad_company___from_old_catalog_
  • bookpublisher:_Chicago__Knight__Leonard___co___printers_
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
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  • bookleafnumber:21
  • bookcollection:library_of_congress
  • bookcollection:americana
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