. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world . , , , Fort , , , , , , , Grande, Del , Hahns , Juan, Miguel, , Arapahoe, , , Cripple , , , Yuma. There are 27 places in Colorado of over 2,0
. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world . , , , Fort , , , , , , , Grande, Del , Hahns , Juan, Miguel, , Arapahoe, , , Cripple , , , Yuma. There are 27 places in Colorado of over 2,000people: 17 of over 3,000; and 8 of over 4, metropolis is Denver, on the east flank ofthe Rocky Mountains, north of the centre, with133,859 inhabitants in 1900, having nearly quad-rupled in 20 years ; the head of the Rocky Moun-tain trade, and chief United States marketfor ranching, prospecting, and mountaineeringsupples. Pueblo, with 28,157, and ColoradoSprings with 21,085, are on the same front lineof the mountains: the former a mining empo-rium ; the latter the greatest sanatorium of theWest. Leadville, 12,455, is the head of the COLORADO. I. Pikes Peak, Showing Carriage Road. 2. Garden of the Gods. COLORADO —COLORADO COLLEGE great mining district on the upper Arkansaswest of South Park; Cripple Creek, 10,147, isthe centre of its rich mining region, west ofColorado Springs; Boulder, 6,150, in the moun-tains northwest of Denver, is a sanatorium withmedicinal springs, also a manufacturing town;Trinidad, 5,345, in the extreme south, is thesouthernmost of the frontal towns, belowPueblo; Victor, 4,986, is one of the CrippleCreek settlements. History.— The State is named from the river(Sp. red-colored8 )• In prehistoric times thepueblo builders dwelt in the southern part; butthe early Spaniards found no survivors to estab-lish missions among, and the country was noteven explored to any extent till, in 1776, Fran-cisco Escalante led an expedition into the Do-lores and
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