. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . ions withsweeping plains intervening, covered with luxuriant verdure. One ofthe most interesting of natural objects is the Cave of the Winds. Thisyou approach through Williams Canon, a winding driveway betweentowering cliffs, more than two miles long. It is the largest cave yetdiscovered in the vast range, and full of weird interest to all whoenter its magical depths. Half way between Denver and
. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . ions withsweeping plains intervening, covered with luxuriant verdure. One ofthe most interesting of natural objects is the Cave of the Winds. Thisyou approach through Williams Canon, a winding driveway betweentowering cliffs, more than two miles long. It is the largest cave yetdiscovered in the vast range, and full of weird interest to all whoenter its magical depths. Half way between Denver and Cheyenne is the town of Greeley,named after the great founder of the New York Tribune, whoseadmonition to all young men was, Go West! Directly west fromGreeley runs the famous gun-barrel road, pointing straight toLongs Peak, fifty miles distant. This remarkable road stretchesacross the green plains for a dozen miles or more without a singlecurve. The story is related that immediately upon the survey beingmade a farmer started a furrow with his plow and kept it all thedistance in a straight line, turning neither to the right nor this gun-barrel road, on your way to Longs Peak, the 174. 173 ECHOES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 177 magnificent panorama of the Snowy Range greets your eye. Beforeyou, in all its grandeur, lies this lofty range with its eternal snowsglittering in the sunlight of your high noon as they have glittered inthe sunlight of centuries, before the voice of man had broken thesilence of its solitudes, or his hand carved the pathway to its majesticheights. Boulder City lies close up against the range. It contains a popu-lation of several thousand, and possesses buildings of note, chief ofwhich is the State University, but its principal attraction is the far-famed Boulder Canon. The tourist, overjoyed to be permitted torevel in the glory of its beauty and sublimity, enters the canon a littlebevond the city, upon a road that winds about for many miles. Acryst
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