Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 362
eak nevercould be ascended, how-ever, seems as amusingto-day as the old ideathat the earth was flat.Thirteen years afterPikes failure, Dr. EdwinJames, of the Long expedition, succeeded inreaching the top. That was on the fourteenthof July, 1820—just one hundred years ago.The centenary of this first… … HISTORIC UTE PASS This historic gateway to the country across the range -was used centuriesago by the Ute Indians in their pilgrimages over the mountains to thefamous mineral springs at Manitou. The white man follozced the Indianwhen he built his first roads across the mountain passes. To-day this…
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