The Switzerland of America: a Summer Vacaton in the Parks and Mountains of Colorado

by Samuel Bowles

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Excerpt from The Switzerland of America: A Summer Vacaton in the Parks and Mountains of Colorado These letters of a Summer Vacation, in saddle and camp, among the great Central Parks and Mountains of America in Colorado, are gathered into this volume in order both to satisfy and stimulate the public interest in a region of our New West destined to a peculiar place in the future of America. We saw enough of it in our stage ride across the Continent in 1865 to suggest that it would become the Switzerland Of America 3 Bayard Tay lor, a wider traveler and closer Observer, made a more familiar tour in 1866, and more formally pronounced the same judgment; and now, after a new visit, and an inti mate acquaintance with all its details, we find our original enthusiasm more than rekindled, our original thought confirmed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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. Read Less

Excerpt from The Switzerland of America: A Summer Vacaton in the Parks and Mountains of Colorado These letters of a Summer Vacation, in saddle and camp, among the great Central Parks and Mountains of America in Colorado, are gathered into this volume in order both to satisfy and stimulate the public interest in a region of our New West destined to a peculiar place in the future of America. We saw enough of it in our stage ride across the Continent in 1865 to suggest that it would become the Switzerland Of America 3 Bayard ... Read More