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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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IT IS NOT MEANT THAT MEN SHOULD ALWAYS BE HERDED INTO CITY CANYONS. deal more than less. Combined with thedry, pure air of a mile-high altitude, thisgives an invigoration that invites to out-door life. The weather is subject tosudden variations of temperature, butthe lack of humidity in the atmosphererobs these changes of their danger. Theinvalid, well wrapped up, sits out on hisporch all day in zero weather and makes the most of the pale wintry sunlight,knowing that the morrow is likely to bethe first of a month of balmy springlikedays. Denver is just now (to be precise,February 15th), in the heart of her win-ter, but yesterday I played golf andto-day tennis. Motor cars flash past asI write and people are riding in open l*. ut-&l !a ~^&L*iZi0i 1—■—^hfV^^V ■». * ■ i* 1 +2r/!\2£ki * 11 1 1 * If im K •■rawPIP \J V Hi P^ft ■ ■ ft -TMnf- m HELPING THE STAGE GET UNDER WAY.203
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AN IDEAL SPOT FOR THE CASUAL TOURIST. street cars with and without overcoats.The distant mountains are ribbed withsnow furrows, deep among their two-mile-high summits the rotary plows arebucking their way through heavy drifts,but both here and there the sky wears itsperennial blue. All told, there has notbeen more than a week this winter dur-ing which one could not have indulgedcomfortably in any outdoor sport. She sits forever in the sun, wroteJoaquin Miller of Denver, and he mightalmost as truly have said it of the State at large. For away up in the mountaintowns and mining camps where onetravels on runners six months in the yearand snowshoes are in brisk demand at thestores, where avalanches are the mostdread menace to safety throughout thewinter, the sunpour from the blue alter-nates with the storms that sweep acrossgulch and mountain. Over park andvalley and plain alike this silvery lightfloods limpidly. This is one of the fac-tors that go to make Colorado moreand more each day t

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