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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature
and Science, Vol. XXVI., December, 1880., by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net
Title: Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XXVI., December, 1880.
Author: Various
Release Date: June 24, 2005 [EBook #16124]
Language: English
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LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE
OF
POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE.
DECEMBER, 1880.
AN HISTORICAL ROCKY-MOUNTAIN OUTPOST.
[Illustration: GOING TO THE JUDGE'S.]
The day might have graced the month of June, so balmy was the air, so warmly shone the sun from a cloudless sky. But the snow-covered mountain-range whose base we were skirting, the leafless cottonwoods fringing the Fontaine qui Bouille and the sombre plains that stretched away to the eastern horizon told a different story. It was on one of those days elsewhere so rare, but so common in Colorado, when a summer sky smiles upon a wintry landscape, that we entered a town in whose history are to be found greater contrasts than even those