The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-07-13
FAMILY
IN MOUNTAINS
E" OF COLORADO

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If ii was Richmond he took. We
would so in and pay our respects to
the editor and hrag about our two
lntertypes back home and offer to
support him in the contention that he
Was leading a dogs life--and then on
we would so again-into the heart of
the sunset For almost week We
did this-and then at last saw the
signs OF mountains coming into view.
shall never forget my first view
of the Rookie Mountains We had
travelled all the forenoon over the
hot brown roads, lodging jackrabbits
as big as deer and ground-hOgs as big
as jack-rabbits and came out at last
on a hilltop. There was no an
nouncement-no trumpets-no speech
es made. We just stepped on her
once and made the rise of ground and
bounded over the top. The bottom
dropped out Of the world. Below in
the basin OF land lay Limon, Colora-
do Far, far away on the western
horizon lay the peaks-miles and
miles of them-all dotting the skyline
from north to south They seemed al.
most like clouds-we could almost
have thought them clouds had II not
been Tor the snow plainly visible on
their SUBMITS. Higher than all the
rest, so high that its summit was lost
in clouds, was Pixies Peak-the grand
old peak OF them all Believe me.
they looked good. There's altogether
TOO much extreme business TO this
American continent There out to be
some OF the mountains sprinkled over
those everlasting prairies and a few
hundred miles of those dun.colored
! prairies done into mountains.
We made DIVER in pretty short or.
I der after that Somehow, just be-
cause the place had done a lot of
Dragging about it's altitude, I'd always
conceived OF Denver as a city built
On a plateau in the mountains-where
YOU come out of the Union Station
and knock the corners of your suit.
case into couple of precipices or en-
er lunchroom and see them throw
their slops down a canyon. was
hardly prepared for a western COW,
town on a big scale set down on the
lowlands in the sun and with the
mountains still twenty to thirty miles
way on ;eh other side and above and
beyond You see after the everlast
Ing going TO bed on concrete by the
side of the road wherever | got tired
)r had fiat tire and waking up and
travelling all day over roads thai
created point OF stopping-interesi
out of cobb estone. was rabid fol
mountains wanted to daily ant
lrolic and roll and become all gum
med up with mountains. though
his was going to happen in Denver
But we swung slightly north ant
came into the town along the same ole
level road and down the long mali
street toward the statehouse and
wanted to beat the place. A Yer
I AbRhA'A AAAlhNo q Val tu lUOI
man anyhow | hadn't thrown int
second speed for so long that didn'
know whether the thing worked an
longer or not.
We ony stopped a few hours I,
Denyer-the mountains to the ives
and southwark calling. We g0t on
mail, took a look into shop windoN
as great curiousity. ate a whit,
. mans meal again at a table with
real linen cloth. filled up with ga
and started for Colorado Springs
where ] was assured | would fin
mountains aplenty And for IS mile
|. those mountains just tantalized u
From Denver down to Colorad
Springs that road simply kept to tn
open and the fiat level country.
: Well. kicked about not getting an
prairies and | got so many that Sc
pTahies yet as through q glass darI
ly-principally nightmare-and
kicked because didn't get mountain
and got them should say di
| found out whether my third spec
| as Is, was working or not-incidenta
ly | found lots of other gears that
| has become a mystery to me wheth,
| hey ever worked before or nc
| Again nature went to extremes.
| Colorado Springs we really got in
| mountains. am in them now.
| hope some day to get out. But
! doubt it. Somebody has left them Z
| scattered around here-they're d
] cheapest things there are in Colora,
5 so cheap that folks forget they
here haven't got that far, havil
broken an auto spring so far trying
find my way out OF them
We We're in Colorado Springs a
1c Manitou on July 4th Someone W
e. reading the Declaration OF mdepC
re dence with the help OF a pitcher
40 ,Co.vater But having read IL on
II IN school ourselves. we did not ST,
III being daft on mountains. We turn
IA westward from there and headed
g. rectly Tor Pixies Peak On JULY
- evening We camped by stream II
i. gorge as near to the base OF PIX
- Peak as the read goes and had ga
ms ages for supper
n. There's q funny thing about Colo
90 do, II any Of YOU folks back no
A. over come out here. don't 20 and
am any Of the things for which Il
rtz, charge admission but 70 and
Su everything for which they do
- This would have been great ca
, nl. try for Barnum They'll get hold