Around the Circle": One Thousand Miles Through the Rocky Mountains
1892

This is a vivid time capsule of American tourism's infancy, a Victorian-era love letter to the Rockies written when the mountains were still wild and the railroad was the ultimate marvel. The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Passenger Department crafted this promotional volume to entice adventurous travelers with the promise of one thousand miles of unparalleled scenery: the chasm of Royal Gorge, the cathedral walls of Black Canyon, the silver-boom towns of Silverton and Ouray. The prose breathes the confidence of an age convinced that nature existed to be civilized by rail, yet it also captures something we're now racing to recover - the raw, untrammeled grandeur of landscapes that have since been tamed, logged, and loved to death. Whether you read it as historical document, travel fantasy, or meditation on what we've lost, this book delivers the dream of the open window, the cinder in your eye, and the absolute certainty that the next curve in the track will reveal something never seen before.
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