Identifier: overrangetogolde00wood (find matches)
Title: Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Wood, Stanley
Subjects: West (U.S.) -- Guidebooks Pacific States -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Chicago : R.R. Donnelley & Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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TROUT FISHINGON THE CIMARRON cil fires here. By secret paths, always guarded, they gained these fastnes-ses, and held their grave and somber meetings. The firelight dancedacross their swarthy faces to the cliffs encircling them. The red glow lit upwith Rembrandt tints the massive walls, the surging streams and clingingvines. They may not have known the place had beauties, but they realizedits isolation, and fearing nothing in their safe retreat, spoke boldly of theirplans. Cimarron. Is a most attractive little station, nestled among the gulcheson the banks of the sparkling Cimarron Creek. Here is a meal station,#nd here the observation car is detached. Sportsmen make headquartersat Cimarron, for the hills are full of game and the streams abound introut. (Population, 200. Distance from Denver, 331 miles. Elevation,6,906 feet.) Cimarron Canon. Where Cimarron Creek empties into the Gun-nison through a short canon the road leaves Black Canon, which continues
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CURRECANTI NEEDLE, BLACK CANON. 9° OVER THE RANGE. on with the larger stream, heightening in awfulness. Down there the fall(it the river increases so rapidly that to follow it to the end, the railroadwould emerge a thousand feet below the valley which it seeks, if a practic-able grade should be kept, so the engineers have turned the road out to thevalley through Cimarron Canon, and in four or five miles a verdurelessexpanse is reached, and for hours the road traverses a region which ispicturesque in its poverty and desolation ; and in the summer the distantand sun-heated buttes, with the arid plains between, remind the traveler ofthe Wastes of Arabia Petra.

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