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Subject	Places. Colorado. Peaks [From: Hart, John Lathrop Jerome: "Fourteen Thousand Feet...]
Title	Western History Subject Index
Description	_ H L. on for the appropriateness of tYe nam- i ng reas crown ere is thef North America' appeared under the "In 1838, the first part of the Flora o 0 joint authorship of John Torrey, M.D., and Asa Gray, M.D.... It is so frequently quoted as 'Torrey and Gray' that had these two eminent co- workers made no other contributions to science, they would still be accorded the title of our first botanists." Grays Peak is famous, among botanists, for it. d Torreys on the number of rare species of plants foun Just as this book goes to press, the U. S. G. S. writes that its determination i s- of the heights of these mountains Torreys ----------------------------- The Indians called them "the Ant Hills" (Report of Oliver W. Toll on the visit of Arapahoe Indians to Estes Park, 1913). aepo ular Science Monthly,- August T872. ---.14,274 --- ------ G rays- --------------- ---- -----------14,264 0. [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]
Format-Medium	Index
Abbreviations	http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/whsi/