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2023.055.3.0397Description
A black anc white stereograph. Image is ove a horse-drawn wagon on a narrow path among mountains, on the right is a steep dropoff with a small forestes of trees. Above the image "52" is printed, below the image "V23256 - Mt. Abram Guarding Stage Road Between Ouray and Red Mountain. Colo." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Portland, Oregon, London, Eng., Sydney, Aus." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
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MT. ABRAM (S.) GUARDING THE STAGE ROAD BETWEEN OURAY AND RED MOUNTAIN COLO.
Lat. 38 (Degrees) N.; Long. 108 (Degrees) W.
This picture is taken on a mere shelf of roadway, a little beyond Ouray (pronunciation), in the southwestern part of Colorado, and is an illustration of the unusualness and beauty of the region. Ouray is about four hundred miles from Denver. It is a minig center and a summer resort. The mountain scenery around here is wonderfully picturesque and striking. This road leads on to Red mountain, the most romantic of the San Jaun, a range of the Rocky Mountains.
This road is a work of marvelous engineering skill, as are many of the roads and railroads through the Colorado mountains. In some places it is propped with fragments of rock, in others it is hewn out of the solid rock. There is always danger from unescapable snow slides and land avalanches. Just ahead (missing) ounded dome. On beyond this is the road sstill winds between wall and precipice till it reaches the principal crest of Red Mountain over eleven thousand feet toward the clouds.
The old-fashioned stagecoach is too slow in most places, but with a sure-footed team it is quite fast enough, where a mis-step in rouding one of the curves along the narrow road would mean death.
This part of the world, geologists tell us, is still in the making. The hill is continually crumbling, and the layers of sandstone, limestone, and shale, with numerous veins of quartz, are not in their original positions. Long ago they were cut and overturned by volcano and glacier; today avalanche, rain, and frost are at work, with a force that is smaller, but equally steady and sure.
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