Transcriber’s Note

The original pagination has been retained in the right margin. The sequence is sometimes disrupted as full page illustrations have been moved to convenient paragraph breaks.

There are two footnotes, which are moved to the end of the text, and linked for easy reference in the text.

Detailed comments on any corrections that were made may be found in a Transcriber’s [Note] at the end of this text.

GARFIELD PEAK.

THE
Crest of the Continent:

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

Of God, and named it boundless space.”

TWENTY NINTH EDITION.

CHICAGO:
R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS, PUBLISHERS.
1887.

R. R. Donnelley & Sons, The Lakeside Press, Chicago.

TO
THE PEOPLE OF COLORADO,
SAGACIOUS IN PERCEIVING, DILIGENT IN DEVELOPING,
AND WISE IN ENJOYING
THE
RESOURCES AND ATTRACTIONS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS,
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
WITH
THE HOMAGE OF
THE AUTHOR.

Transcriber’s Note

THECrest of the Continent:

THE
Crest of the Continent: