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Along Colorado`s Continental Divide Trail
For hikers and armchair travelers alike, this is the perfect companion to Colorado`s Continental Divide Trail: The Official Guide. Stunning photographs, lively text. Hardcover edition.
Item # 1-56579-227-0
$50.00
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Colorado PLIC Maps & Books Index
The Colorado Rockies...
...epitomize the majesty of western scenery, so much that even the most entrenched urbanite can summon up a clear picture of the rugged peaks. As familiar as the Front Range is, few know about Colorado's other public lands: stunning mountains, hidden valleys, expansive rolling grasslands, and verdant mesas mark the south, east , and western regions. Of course, these lands were not always so overlooked. The lush green plateaus of the southwest were among the first areas to see permanent settlement, as ancestral Puebloans migrated out of Chaco Canyon to the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde, Hovenweep, Crow Canyon, and other area communities. And though plenty of hunters, trappers, and miners combed the hills for game and gold, homesteaders tended to settle in the sheltered valleys and on the open plains. When you escape into the mountains, grasslands, rivers, and valleys of Colorado, you follow in the footsteps of those who lived in and traveled here for centuries past. In the forests and parks of the Rocky Mountains, recall the gold rush which put the state on the map; imagine the farmers desolated by the dust bowl out on the Pawnee and Comanche grasslands; feel the excitement of the early explorers on the Arkansas River; and appreciate the love for grace and beauty evident in the pre-Columbian architecture of the Colorado Plateau.
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