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Transcriber’s Note
The original pagination has been retained in the right margin. Thesequence is sometimes disrupted as full page illustrations have beenmoved to convenient paragraph breaks.
There are two footnotes, which are moved to the end of the text, and linked foreasy reference in the text.
Detailed comments on any corrections that were made may be found ina Transcriber’s Note at the end of this text.
THE
Crest of the Continent:
A RECORD OF
A SUMMER’S RAMBLE IN THE ROCKY
MOUNTAINS AND BEYOND.
By ERNEST INGERSOLL.
TWENTY NINTH EDITION.
CHICAGO:
R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS, PUBLISHERS.
1887.
COPYRIGHT,
BY S. K. HOOPER,
1885.
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.
PREFACE.
Probably nothing in this artificial world is more deceptive thanabsolute candor. Hence, though the ensuing text may lack nothing instraightforwardness of assertion, and seem impossible to misunderstand,it may be worth while to say distinctly, here at the start, that it isall true. We actually did make such an excursion, in such cars, andwith such equipments, as I have described; and we would like to do itagain.
It was wild and rough in many respects. Re-arranging the trip, luxuriesmight be added, and certain inconveniences avoided; but I doubt whether,in so doing, we should greatly increase the pleasure or the profit.
“No man shoul