. To California and back; . Dick Wooten collected toll from those whoused the wagon-road through the pass. Bothruin and trail are of interest as belonging tothe ante-railroad period of thrilling adventure,for by that road and past the site of the dilapi-dated dwelling journeyed every overland stage,every caravan, every prairie schooner, everyemigrant, and every soldier cavalcade bound tothe southwestern country in early this is a wide-sweeping curve fromwhose farther side, looking backward downthe pass, an inspiring picture is unfolded toview for a passing instant — a farewell glim
. To California and back; . Dick Wooten collected toll from those whoused the wagon-road through the pass. Bothruin and trail are of interest as belonging tothe ante-railroad period of thrilling adventure,for by that road and past the site of the dilapi-dated dwelling journeyed every overland stage,every caravan, every prairie schooner, everyemigrant, and every soldier cavalcade bound tothe southwestern country in early this is a wide-sweeping curve fromwhose farther side, looking backward downthe pass, an inspiring picture is unfolded toview for a passing instant — a farewell glimpseof the poetic Spanish Peaks at the end of along vista past a ragged foreground of giganticmeasure. Then the hills crowd and shut offthe outside world; there is a deep sandstonecut, its faces seamed with layers of coal, aboundary post marked upon one side Coloradoand upon the other New Mexico, and instantlyfollowing that a plunge into a half-mile tunnelof midnight blackness, at an elevation of some-thing more than 7,600
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