What to see in America . ateway to westernColorado, a broken region of tremendous mountain rangesintermitting with many a sheltered pastoral valley. Thesevalleys are called parks. One of them is about as large asNew Jersey, and the land is both level and fertile. Byturning a little aside from the main route you can visitLeadville in its lofty aerie, over 10,000 feet above the is sometimes spoken of as the Town above the boom began here in 1878 when ore remarkably richin lead and silver was discovered. Then people flockedthither in wagons and on horseback and in stages until t
What to see in America . ateway to westernColorado, a broken region of tremendous mountain rangesintermitting with many a sheltered pastoral valley. Thesevalleys are called parks. One of them is about as large asNew Jersey, and the land is both level and fertile. Byturning a little aside from the main route you can visitLeadville in its lofty aerie, over 10,000 feet above the is sometimes spoken of as the Town above the boom began here in 1878 when ore remarkably richin lead and silver was discovered. Then people flockedthither in wagons and on horseback and in stages until threeyears later the place had 37,000 inhabitants, which is fivetimes its presentsize. Thirty milesto the northwest isthe Mountain of theHoly Cross; but theemblem which givesthe peak its namedoes not appear tillnearly the snow hasmelted from the highprecipices and isonly retained in twodeep ravines thatform a cross. Thiscross continues inview until the late fall, when the snows The Ghosts, Rio Grande Forest. 422 What to See in America again take possession of the entire crest. To go to themountain, stop at Red Chff, a dehghtful Httle village with aSwiss-like environment. A somewhat arduous trip of adozen miles back into the woods brings you into the vicinityof the strangely marked height. Farther west is the well-known health resort of Glenwood Springs in a beautifulvalley surrounded by forest-clad hills. Another particularly interesting placeis Grand Junc-tion, which hasin its vicinitysome of the mostproductive fruitcountry in theentire RockyMountain re-gion. In the south-western cornerof the state isthe Mesa Verde National Park. It is in a dry, warm, levelregion with thin pine forests. The striking features of thedistrict are occasional picturesque canyons, and now andthen a flat-topped elevation, one or two thousand feet elevations are called mesas, which is Spanish for of them are arid and bare, but the mesa which is thenational park is
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