THE Crest of the Continent:
Reading edition
A RECORD OF A SUMMER’S RAMBLE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND BEYOND.
By ERNEST INGERSOLL.
“We climbed the rock-built breasts of earth! We saw the snowy mountains rolled Like mighty billows; saw the birth Of sudden dawn; beheld the gold Of awful sunsets; saw the face Of God, and named it boundless space.”
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.