Western History Subject Index

              Blanca Peak --------------------------........( 4)* The Sangre de Cristo Range is that seen from the plains of Southern Colorado. It is probably the first range in Colorado known by white men, because the Spanish explorers approached it from New Mexico. We know little of its history, or that of the San Juan Mountains in Southwestern Colo- se most of the records in Santa Fe have a u rado, from Spanish sources, ec been lost, misplaced, or sold in Spain. The San Luis valley, at its foot, is today largely populated with Mexicans. Spanish exploration and population account for the predominance of Spanish names. Of the high peaks, Sierra Blanca, Crestone, and Culebra, the most prominent, the names are of Spanish origin; and of the three others, Baldy, Kit Carson, and Humboldt, the less prominent, the names are of America gin. Crestone ----------------------...---------------( 8) Culebra ------------------------------------------ (31) Old Baldy Peak ---.--.------------------(25) Kit Carson --------------------------------.-(27) Humboldt ------------------------ -............. (35) Crestone Needle ---------.----------------(23)   [From: Hart, John Lathrop Jerome: "Fourteen Thousand Feet: a history of the naming and early ascents of the high Colorado peaks." Denver, Colorado Mountain Club, 1925]