The Rocky Mountain Wonderland (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Rocky Mountain Wonderland

Folk of the mountain-summits, Wild Moun tain Sheep, Associating with snow-slides, The Forest Frontier, Bringing back the For est, and Going to the Top. Country Life in America published A Mountain Pony The Youth's Companion, Some Forest History Recreation, Drought in Beaver World; and Our Dumb Animals, My Chipmunk Callers. The editors of these publications have kindly consented to the publishing of these papers in this volume.

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Excerpt from The Rocky Mountain Wonderland

Colorado has one thousand peaks that rise more than two miles into the sky. About one hundred and fifty of these reach up beyond thirteen thousand feet in altitude. There are more than twice as many peaks of fourteen thousand feet in Colorado as in all the other States of the Union. An enormous area is entirely above the limits of tree-growth; but these heights above the timber-line are far from being barren and lifeless. Covering these mountains with robes of beauty are forests, lakes, meadows, brilliant flowers, moorlands, and vine-like streams that cling to the very summits. This entire mountain realm is delightfully rich in plant and animal life, from the lowest meadows to the summits of the highest peaks.

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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.