Every mile traveling from Colorado Springs leads farther and higher into the mountains

Evidence

I must explain that every mile I have traveled since leaving Colorado Springs has taken me farther and higher into the mountains. That afternoon I rode through lawnlike upland parks, with the great snow mass of Pike’s Peak behind, and in front mountains bathed in rich atmospheric coloring of blue and violet, all very fine, but threatening to become monotonous, when the wagon road turned abruptly to the left, and crossed a broad, swift, mountain river, the head-waters of the Platte. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 394

Categorization

• SHARE: A geography nerd would enjoy the detail that even the Platte’s headwaters are a broad mountain river crossed here.

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