. Shoshone, and other western wonders. ilesaway; and the fifty-niners, toiling slowlyacross the plains on their way to the new ElDorado, thought every day that on the nextthey would reach the Peak and make theircamp at its base. So, when the word ^ shadow is used, it mustbe taken with limitations. One may think him-self in the shade of the natural beacon, butprobably he will not be. Colorado Springs andManitou are generally said to be in the shadowof Pikes Peak; and I have adopted the localphrase, though the real shadow is several milesaway. And yet, if one does not mind a hardride and a rough
. Shoshone, and other western wonders. ilesaway; and the fifty-niners, toiling slowlyacross the plains on their way to the new ElDorado, thought every day that on the nextthey would reach the Peak and make theircamp at its base. So, when the word ^ shadow is used, it mustbe taken with limitations. One may think him-self in the shade of the natural beacon, butprobably he will not be. Colorado Springs andManitou are generally said to be in the shadowof Pikes Peak; and I have adopted the localphrase, though the real shadow is several milesaway. And yet, if one does not mind a hardride and a rough camp and a few hardships,he may rest for a day or so in the real shadow,or climb to the top of the Peak itself, and fromit look down upon a good portion of Colo-rado, with its ranges and valleys and vast plainsstretching far away, even as do the waters of amighty ocean. And if any one will come withme, afoot and horseback, into the mysteriousregions of the Rockies, I can promise him manya day of enjoyment and as varied a selection of. IN THE SHADOW OF PIKES PEAK. JJ views and experiences as he could get in theAlps or in the Apennines. And we shall neverlose sight of Pikes Peak in all our wanderings,nor get far away from its shadow. Had one for Colorado Springs orManitou in 1871, he would not have foundthem. The site of both was a desert. Wherethe one now stands was a rolling prairie, andwhere the other is were a few sulphur andsoda springs, with now and then an Indiancamp-fire lighting up a group of swarthy to-day Colorado Springs is a city of seventhousand people; and Manitou, while not solarge, has a resident population of at least fivehundred, and a floating population of severalthousands. During the summer months thelittle mountain hamlet is overrun with visitors,and the scenes are as animated as those at Sara-toga or Newport. Many visit the place propos-ing to stay a week, and remain a month; whilethose who come for a month often stay six, ora year. The
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