Excerpt from Colorado the MagnificentFor the State is traversed by the main chain of the oft-quoted backbone of the continent, the huge ridge-pole of the Republic, the prolific mother of rivers born in fields of inaccessible snow, the rock-barred treasure-house of the world's greatest supply of gold. Amid these heights are born the Arkansas, both the Plattes, the Rio Grande the rivers of Nebraska and central Kansas, and that Rio Colorado that ¿ows at last into the alien waters of the Gulf of California.Out of this jumbled mass of giant peaks arise those special ones beside whom all the others of Eu rope and North America seem as hillocks. Here are Pike's, Long's, Grav's, Lincoln, Ouray, Grant, Sher man, and scores of others whose heights are from to feet. To one who sees them far away, perhaps across eighty miles of hazy distance, they seem clouds rather than mountains.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.