The Crest of the Continent: A Summer's Ramble in the Rocky Mountains and Beyond. Ernest Ingersoll

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       Ernest Ingersoll

      The Crest of the Continent: A Summer's Ramble in the Rocky Mountains and Beyond

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664561428

Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       ILLUSTRATIONS.

       I AT THE BASE OF THE ROCKIES.

       II ALONG THE FOOTHILLS.

       III A MOUNTAIN SPA.

       IV PUEBLO AND ITS FURNACES

       V OVER THE SANGRE DE CRISTO.

       VI SAN LUIS PARK.

       VII THE INVASION OF NEW MEXICO.

       VIII EL MEXICANO Y EL PUEBLOANO.

       IX SANTA FE AND THE SACRED VALLEY.

       X TOLTEC GORGE.

       XI ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER.

       XII THE QUEEN OF THE CAÑONS.

       XIII SILVER SAN JUAN.

       XIV BEYOND THE RANGES.

       XV THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE RIO SAN JUAN.

       XVI ON THE UPPER RIO GRANDE.

       XVII EL MORO AND CAÑON CITY.

       XVIII IN THE WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY.

       XIX THE ROYAL GORGE.

       XX THE ARKANSAS VALLEY.

       XXI THE CAMP OF THE CARBONATES.

       XXII ACROSS THE TENNESSEE AND FREMONT’S PASSES.

       XXIII FROM PONCHO SPRINGS TO VILLA GROVE.

       XXIV THROUGH MARSHALL PASS.

       XXV GUNNISON AND CRESTED BUTTE.

       XXVI A TRIP TO LAKE CITY.

       XXVII IMPRESSIONS OF THE BLACK CAÑON.

       XXVIII THE UNCOMPAHGRE VALLEY.

       XXIX AT OURAY AND RED MOUNTAIN.

       XXX MONTROSE AND DELTA.

       XXXI THE GRAND RIVER VALLEY.

       XXXII GREEN RIVER.

       XXXIII CROSSING THE WASATCH.

       XXXIV BY UTAH LAKES.

       XXXV SALT LAKE CITY.

       XXXVI SALT LAKE AND THE WASATCH.

       XXXVII AU REVOIR.

       NOTES

PREFACE.

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      Probably nothing in this artificial world is more deceptive than absolute candor. Hence, though the ensuing text may lack nothing in straightforwardness of assertion, and seem impossible to misunderstand, it may be worth while to say distinctly, here at the start, that it is all true. We actually did make such an excursion, in such cars, and with such equipments, as I have described; and we would like to do it again.

      It was wild and rough in many respects. Re-arranging the trip, luxuries might be added, and certain inconveniences avoided; but I doubt whether, in so doing, we should greatly increase the pleasure or the profit.

      “No man should desire a soft life,” wrote King Ælfred the Great. Roughing it, within reasonable grounds, is the marrow of this sort of recreation. What a pungent and wholesome savor to the healthy taste there is in the very phrase! The zest with which one goes about an expedition of any kind in the Rocky Mountains is phenomenal in itself; I despair of making it credited or comprehended by inexperienced lowlanders. We are told that the joys of Paradise will not only actually be greater than earthly pleasures, but that they will be further magnified by our increased spiritual sensitiveness to the “good times” of heaven. Well, in the same way, the senses are so quickened by the clear, vivifying climate of the western uplands in summer, that an experience is tenfold more pleasurable there than it could become in the Mississippi valley. I elsewhere have had something to say about this exhilaration of body and soul in the high Rockies, which you will perhaps pardon me for repeating briefly, for it was written