CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| CHAPTER I. | ||
| The Old, the New, and the Ocean Between | [1] | |
| CHAPTER II. | ||
| Coronado | [14] | |
| CHAPTER III. | ||
| Light in the East | [40] | |
| CHAPTER IV. | ||
| Lieutenant Pike | [54] | |
| CHAPTER V. | ||
| The Lost Period | [75] | |
| CHAPTER VI. | ||
| Major Long | [85] | |
| CHAPTER VII. | ||
| The Pioneers | [99] | |
| CHAPTER VIII. | ||
| Christopher Carson and His Contemporaries | [106] | |
| CHAPTER IX. | ||
| General Fremont and the Mormons | [125] | |
| CHAPTER X. | ||
| Opportunity | [143] | |
| CHAPTER XI. | ||
| A Vanishing Race | [153] | |
| CHAPTER XII. | ||
| The Lustre of Gold | [171] | |
| CHAPTER XIII. | ||
| Some Men of Visions | [184] | |
| CHAPTER XIV. | ||
| The Stone Which the Builders Rejected | [222] | |
ILLUSTRATIONS.
| A Glimpse of Estes Park | [Frontispiece] | |
| Face Page | ||
| CHAPTER I. | ||
| The Ocean Explorer | [1] | |
| CHAPTER II. | ||
| Coronado Before a Zuni Village | [16] | |
| CHAPTER IV. | ||
| (a) Pike and His Frozen Companion | [66] | |
| (b) One of the Approaches to Cheyenne Mt. | [74] | |
| CHAPTER V. | ||
| The Trapper | [78] | |
| CHAPTER VI. | ||
| The Buffalo Hunter | [94] | |
| CHAPTER VII. | ||
| Pioneers and Prairie Schooner | [110] | |
| CHAPTER VIII. | ||
| A Government Scout | [126] | |
| CHAPTER IX. | ||
| Indians Watching Fremont's Force | [134] | |
| CHAPTER X. | ||
| Ventura, Historian of Taos Indians | [142] | |
| CHAPTER XI. | ||
| (a) Indian Chief Addressing the Council | [158] | |
| (b) Winnowing Grain | [166] | |
| CHAPTER XII. | ||
| Making a Clean-up | [174] | |
DEDICATED
To the Pioneers of Colorado:
Whose work in laying the foundation of the magnificent superstructure of our great State, as Abraham Lincoln said of the heroes of Gettysburg, "is far beyond our poor power to add or detract."