Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements . ONE OF FREMONTS GUIDES. 86 JOHN C FREMONT. stands in majestic grandeur near the Pass. The summit was reachedafter a most difficult climb, and Fremont himself was the first white manto stand on its narrow crest, and to look out upon the country from thehighest point in the Rocky Mountains. On one side lav numberless lakes and streams, giving their watersinto the Colorado, which sweeps them on to the Gulf of California ; iu. FREMONTS EXPLORING EXPEDITION APPROACHING ROCKY MOUNTAINS. the other direction he saw the lovely valley of the W
Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements . ONE OF FREMONTS GUIDES. 86 JOHN C FREMONT. stands in majestic grandeur near the Pass. The summit was reachedafter a most difficult climb, and Fremont himself was the first white manto stand on its narrow crest, and to look out upon the country from thehighest point in the Rocky Mountains. On one side lav numberless lakes and streams, giving their watersinto the Colorado, which sweeps them on to the Gulf of California ; iu. FREMONTS EXPLORING EXPEDITION APPROACHING ROCKY MOUNTAINS. the other direction he saw the lovely valley of the Wind River, theromantic home from which the Yellowstone carries its waters to theMissouri, awa} to the east; in the north he saw the snow-capped summitsof the Trois Tetons, where the Missouri and the Columbia rise, and thelower peaks that guard the secret of the Nebraskas birth. Between, beA-ond and all around were lesser peaks, gorges, ruggedcliffs, and great walls of mountain rock, broken into a thousand bold,fantastic figures, and standing up in weird and striking grandeur. Athousand feet below him, steep, shining ice-precipices towered above fields JOHN C. FREMONT. 87 of snow, gleaming spotless white. We stood, said Fremont, wherehuman foot had never stood before, and felt the thrill of first the travelers were again at the base of the peak, and all theirexplorations and discoveries had been carefully noted, and their speci-mens of rock, plants and flowers
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