New Colorado and the Santa Fe Trail

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Ce livre historique peut avoir de nombreuses fautes de frappe, le texte manquant, des images ou des index. Les acheteurs peuvent telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans fautes de frappe) de l’editeur. Non illustre. 1881 edition. Extrait: …from top to bottom. In certain places trees grew on the top, and down to the very edges of the chasm, and at intervals immense lateral gorges opened out. As we turned back the moon appeared, and her pale light streamed down only far enough into this pathway of the mammoths to emphasize the deep shadows below. As we finally emerged into the open valley we perceived that the authorities had chosen this very spot for the erection of a fine penitentiary–perhaps to enforce the contrast between the works of Nature and those of men, or to qualify the tourist’s pleasure by reminders of what comes (adopting the Western standard) to fiends in human shape who steal mules, and poor fellows who only send their fellow-men into the next world. Through this great cafipn comes, from its birthplace away up in the mountains, the Arkansas. Up to within a few months no human being had passed through it except on thc ice in winter; the workmen were actually lowered down from above to drill the holes for blasting; and in one place a longitudinal bridge has been hung from strong iron beams, stretched like ridge-timbers across the chasm; but Leadville is near the valley of the upper river, and this is one of those longest roads around which are the shortest roads home. Probably before these pages are in type the Grand Cafion will be simply Section No. So-and-so of Division No. Such-a-one, and the Express Train No. 1 will have the right of way through over Local Freight No. 17, and passengers will be thinking more of their chances of “striking carbonates” than of “what God hath wrought” around and above them. The observant vacation tourist will naturally interest himself in the growing industries of the…