The Crest of the Continent: A Summer's Ramble in the Rocky Mountains and Beyond

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Crest of the Continent, by Ernest Ingersoll
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GARFIELD PEAK.
A RECORD OF A SUMMER’S RAMBLE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND BEYOND.
By ERNEST INGERSOLL.
“We climbed the rock-built breasts of earth!
We saw the snowy mountains rolled
Like mighty billows; saw the birth
Of sudden dawn; beheld the gold
Of awful sunsets; saw the face