Colorado and the Rockies

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COLORADO
™?ROCKIES
A Picture Book to Remember Her by
64 Pages of Color Photography
Four hundred years before Columbus made his epic voyage to America, a race of people inhabited a maze of stone built cliff dwellings in South-West Colorado. Many of those homes still remain, but their occupants moved away long ago. As time passed, tribes of Red Indians, whose names— Cheyenne. Comanche and Kiowa—will be familiar to many aficionados of the Wild West, settled in the East, on the rolling plains of America's 38th State. To the West loomed the Colorado Rockies with their towering peaks, lush valleys and mighty rivers that had carved spectacular canyons as they made their way to the sea.
The discovery of gold and silver changed the face of Colorado's mountains in the heady days of the Gold Rush, when fortunes were made and lost with alarming rapidity. Small settlements grew into cities and the railroad penetrated vast areas of this previously isolated State.
Today, many people visit... Tovább

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COLORADO
™?ROCKIES
A Picture Book to Remember Her by
64 Pages of Color Photography
Four hundred years before Columbus made his epic voyage to America, a race of people inhabited a maze of stone built cliff dwellings in South-West Colorado. Many of those homes still remain, but their occupants moved away long ago. As time passed, tribes of Red Indians, whose names— Cheyenne. Comanche and Kiowa—will be familiar to many aficionados of the Wild West, settled in the East, on the rolling plains of America's 38th State. To the West loomed the Colorado Rockies with their towering peaks, lush valleys and mighty rivers that had carved spectacular canyons as they made their way to the sea.
The discovery of gold and silver changed the face of Colorado's mountains in the heady days of the Gold Rush, when fortunes were made and lost with alarming rapidity. Small settlements grew into cities and the railroad penetrated vast areas of this previously isolated State.
Today, many people visit Colorado to escape the rigours of 20th century living, to enjoy the facilities of first class ski resorts like Aspen and Vail, and to appreciate the truly magnificent scenery of the many National Parks, which are among the finest in the world.
The beautiful photographs in this colourful book will serve as a splendid introduction to. or reminder of. this lovely and unspoiled State. Vissza