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Colorado National Monument (Paperback)
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Colorado National Monument (Paperback)
Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
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List price R618
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Discovery Miles 5 610
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Amid the rock spires and red-rock canyons west of Grand Junction
near the Utah state line, a young man with a checkered past
single-handedly built trails at a salary of $1 a month. John Otto
brought the beauty of the canyons to the attention of the local
chambers of commerce and eventually the National Park Service. With
the stroke of a pen, Pres. William Taft added the Colorado National
Monument to the park system in 1911. Ottoas eccentricities toward
bureaucrats and businessmen caused him to abandon a quarter-century
of trail building in the mid-1930s. His legacy was then picked up
by hundreds of young men from the Civilian Conservation Corps prior
to World War II. Today their combined efforts bring thousands of
hikers, bicyclists, and motorists to the same trails Otto first
used to introduce people to the canyon lands a century ago and the
odd rock monoliths that seem to rise hundreds of feet out of the
canyon floor. Scenic vistas of the Little Bookcliffs mountain range
and the great Grand Mesa complete the beautiful panorama.
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