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2016.
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The origins of Colorado place names offer insightful glimpses into the state's formative years. Emanuel Saltiel named his new community along the Arkansas River Cotopaxi, after a volcano in Ecuador. Rifle Creek and the town of Rifle earned their names thanks to a rifle left behind along the banks of the creek. Optimistic miners mistakenly believed Tarryall had an abundance of gold and thus named it as a place where prospectors could mine and tarry....
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c1994
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From Mount Achonee to Mount Ypsilon with hundreds of peaks, passes, lakes, and streams in between, Colorado historians Louisa Ward Arps and Elinor Eppich Kingery enthusiastically recorded the history of over 600 place names in Rocky Mountain National Park and the adjacent areas around Grand Lake and the Indian Peaks. In their inimitable style, Arps and Kingery included the personal anecdotes and interesting tidbits that make this book not only a valuable...
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