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491Chapter 1: Mountains and Plains1. Donald Jackson, ed., The Journals of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, with Letters and Related Documents, 2 vols. (Norman: Uni-versity of Oklahoma Press, 1966), 2: 27.2. Ibid., 1: 345.3. Edwin James, Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains . . . under the Command of Maj. S. H. Long, of the US Top. Engineers, vols. 14–17 of Early Western Travels, 1748–1846, ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites (New York: AMS Press, 1966), 17: 147.4. Donald Jackson and Mary Lee Spence, eds., The Expeditions of John Charles Frémont, vol. 1: Travels from 1838 to 1844 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1969), 1: 435.5. Horace Greeley, An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859, ed. Charles T. Duncan (New York: Knopf, 1964), 81, 85.6. John I.H. Baur, ed., The Autobiography of Worthington Whit-tredge (New York: Brooklyn Museum, n.d.), 45.7. Robert Baron, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel, eds., Thomas Hornsby Ferril and the American West (Golden, CO: Ful-crum, 1996), 100.8. On July 7, 2002, the Denver Post reported that the National Geodetic Survey had determined that many elevations in Colo-rado were a few feet higher than previously thought. Pikes Peak went from 14,110 feet to 14,115, and Mount Elbert, the state’s highest mountain, increased from 14,433 to 14,440 feet.9. Jackson and Spence, Expeditions of John Charles Frémont, 1: 711.10. Ibid., 1: 712–18.11. Theodore Roosevelt, Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter (New York: Charles Scribners, 1905), 78.Notes
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491Chapter 1: Mountains and Plains1. Donald Jackson, ed., The Journals of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, with Letters and Related Documents, 2 vols. (Norman: Uni-versity of Oklahoma Press, 1966), 2: 27.2. Ibid., 1: 345.3. Edwin James, Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains . . . under the Command of Maj. S. H. Long, of the US Top. Engineers, vols. 14–17 of Early Western Travels, 1748–1846, ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites (New York: AMS Press, 1966), 17: 147.4. Donald Jackson and Mary Lee Spence, eds., The Expeditions of John Charles Frémont, vol. 1: Travels from 1838 to 1844 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1969), 1: 435.5. Horace Greeley, An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859, ed. Charles T. Duncan (New York: Knopf, 1964), 81, 85.6. John I.H. Baur, ed., The Autobiography of Worthington Whit-tredge (New York: Brooklyn Museum, n.d.), 45.7. Robert Baron, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel, eds., Thomas Hornsby Ferril and the American West (Golden, CO: Ful-crum, 1996), 100.8. On July 7, 2002, the Denver Post reported that the National Geodetic Survey had determined that many elevations in Colo-rado were a few feet higher than previously thought. Pikes Peak went from 14,110 feet to 14,115, and Mount Elbert, the state’s highest mountain, increased from 14,433 to 14,440 feet.9. Jackson and Spence, Expeditions of John Charles Frémont, 1: 711.10. Ibid., 1: 712–18.11. Theodore Roosevelt, Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter (New York: Charles Scribners, 1905), 78.Notes
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