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Title: Under the turquoise sky of Colorado ..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: (Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railway company) (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (Chicago?) Rock Island-Frisco lines and Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ift—where from a vast central plateau, itself six thousand feet above the sea, rise hundreds of granite peaks into the regions of perpetual snow. Here the waters of a continent are divided and great rivers flowing to either ocean have their source. Here are carions and gorges, awe-inspiring and stupendous, which testify to the hoary age of the mountains they cut asunder; and a score of peak-encircled parks, any one of which might constitute a principality. Here are the continents treasure vaults, where veins of gold and silver seam the granite mountains. Here are medicinal springs for healing and refreshment; and here, under skies of deepest blue, lies a sun-bathed land with a climate whose delights and perfections the lowland dweller may not know. Scarcely more than three decades have passed since this region was a terra incognita, the hunting ground of the Indianand the home of wild beasts. Three hundred miles to north-ward had swept the stream of the California Argonauts, to whom
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these culminating rangeshad been but giganticbarriers blocking theirway to the Golden Gateand the El Dorado oftheir dreams. Far tosouthward lay the SantaFe Trail — that dustyhighway strewn with thebleaching bones of manand beast, which linkedthe western outposts ofour civilization with theancient land of the Span-iard and with all themystery and charm ofthe sunny Southwest.Far removed from thehighways across theplains, these mightymountains had heretofore remained untrodden by the foot of theemigrant or trader; only a few adventurous explorers had asyet penetrated their fastness. And to all of these the chief guid-ing beacon had been a single snowy peak, visible for fifty leagues, A Libation to the Gods

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