What to see in America . rly 13,000 feet above the one hundred varieties of blossoms brighten the ledges,fringe the snow fields, and color the moorlands above thelimits of tree growth. The village of Estes Park, in a valley at the eastern gate-way of this mountain playground, has many hotels seventhousand or more feet above the sea level. From them accessto the noblest heights and most picturesque recesses of thepark is easy. The air is sufficiently rare by reason of heightto make running put a person quickly out of breath; and ifyou attempt to climb the higher mountains you have tom
What to see in America . rly 13,000 feet above the one hundred varieties of blossoms brighten the ledges,fringe the snow fields, and color the moorlands above thelimits of tree growth. The village of Estes Park, in a valley at the eastern gate-way of this mountain playground, has many hotels seventhousand or more feet above the sea level. From them accessto the noblest heights and most picturesque recesses of thepark is easy. The air is sufficiently rare by reason of heightto make running put a person quickly out of breath; and ifyou attempt to climb the higher mountains you have tomove deliberately and stop often to rest. The most com-fortable way to travel the mountain trails is on guide advises the riders to hold the reins loosely andlet the horse pick a way to suit itself. He rides ahead, andthe horses ridden by the rest of the party follow, if let can bivouac by rock and stream in the primeval forestif you choose. For splendid sunny days and cool restful Colorado 413 p 1. Pikes Peak from the Garden of the Gods * THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR. l^EUOXTTLD E N FO U N D .? 7 10 N S Colorado 415 nights the park cannot be surpassed. A number of rail-roads run close to it, and it is only thirty hours from ChicagOoAs many as 50,000 persons have visited it in a single year. Colorado has seventeen National Forests which cover anarea almost half as large as the state of New York. Inthem are forty of the fifty-four peaks in the United Statesthat exceed 14,000 feet in height. These forests also havein them thousands of miles of the best fishing streams inthe country. Fifty miles south of Denver is Palmer, one of the mostcelebrated resorts in the state. The Ute Indians, in a legendsimilar to the account of Noahs Flood in the Bible, tell howa great boat containing all the living creatures that escapeddrowning was left by the subsiding waters on a spur of themountains just back of Palmer Lake. When the animalscame forth from the boat they
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