Identifier: underturquoisesk00chic (find matches)
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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es, towers andpinnacles, besides formations of lesser size, in fantastic shapesthat readily lend themselves to the imagination, and in which onesees as many pictures as in a fire of coals on a winter night, orthe clouds of heaven in a summer sky. Geologists tell us that these are sedimentary strata, whichonce lay horizontally upon the mountains breast, but that somegigantic convulsion of nature threw them into their present perpendicular attitude, with their roots, as it were, extendinghundreds of feet underground. The erosion of water, whenthis was all the Gulf of Mexico, accounts for the shaping. The gateway to the Garden is really the grandest feature,rising perpendicularly on either side twice the height of Niagara,and framing in rich terra cotta a most entrancing picture of theblue and tawny peak, apparently only a little way on theother side. But once within the majestic portals, gifted with alively imagination, one may see without end the grotesque orgrand, as the spirit moves.
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