The Crest of the Continent

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Excerpt from The Crest of the Continent: A Record of a Summer's Ramble in the Rocky Mountains and Beyond That was written out Of a sincere enthusiasm, which made as naught a whole season's hardship and work, before there was hardly a wagon-road, much less a railway, beyond the front range. This exordium, my friendly reader, is all to show to you: That we went to the Rockies and beyond them, as we say we did that we knew what we were after, and found the apples Of these Hesperides not dust and ashes but veritable golden fruit, and, finally, that you may be persuaded to test for yourself this natural and lasting enjoyment. The grand and alluring mountains are still there, - everlasting hills, unchangeable refuges from weariness, anxiety and strife The railway grows wider and permits a longer and even more varied journey than was ours. Cars can be fitted up as we fitted ours, or in a way as much better as you like. Year by year the facilities for wayside comforts and short branch excursions are multiplied, with the increase of population and culture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.