[114] Farnham intends the Huerfano, now known as Wet Mountains, a range that leaves the great central system south of Pike's Peak and trends south-eastwardly to Huerfano River.—Ed.
[115] By James's Peak Farnham intends the present Pike's Peak; see ante, p. [111], note 50. What he here calls Pike's was one of the Spanish Peaks, which would be in a south-western direction from his camping ground. In recent years the name James Peak has been transferred to a mountain not far from Central City, on the borders of Gilpin, Clear Creek, and Grand counties Colorado.—Ed.
[116] For Fountain Creek (Fontaine qui bouit), which enters the Arkansas at the present city of Pueblo, see our volume xvi, p. 25, note 10. It derives its name from the present Manitou Springs at the eastern base of Pike's Peak.—Ed.
[117] For this stream (Huerfano) see our volume xvi, p. 53, note 35. Its two branches are the Cuchara, which rises near the Spanish Peaks, and the main Huerfano.—Ed.
[118] The names of these two creeks appear to have been local titles applied by Farnham's guide, and named in honor of roving trappers. Kelly's was probably Turkey Creek, flowing into the Arkansas from the north, in north-west Pueblo County; Oakley's would therefore be the present Beaver Creek, in eastern Fremont County—see our volume xvi, p. 44, note 27, for another appellation of this stream.—Ed.
[119] From Farnham's location of this stream it would seem to be Field Creek, down which a branch of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway comes to join the main line at Florence—Ed.
[120] The first range is the Wet Mountains, for which see ante, p. [183], note 110. The extensive tract of western mountains is the Sangre de Cristo range.—Ed.
[121] For Farnham's "Pike's Peak" see ante, p. [184], note 111. Pike did not approach these elevations within many miles.—Ed.
[122] Farnham was at the entrance of the Grand Cañon (or Royal Gorge) of the Arkansas—a chasm much of which was formerly impassable even to travellers on foot; but it is now threaded by the Denver and Rio Grande Railway, over a roadbed blasted and hewn from the solid rock, at one narrow point the track being carried on steel rafters bridging the chasm.—Ed.
[123] Probably Oil Creek, by which Pike made his way over to South Park; see our volume xvi, p. 34, note 14.—Ed.