he parks and mountains higher up. Later on, in the
gold excitement of 1859, when the rush was made to Pike's Peak, and
later still, after the unprecedented excitement and the settlement of
Leadville, before the railroad was built, the Pass was thronged with
camp-trains pushing their way into the mountains. Now the tourist,
the pleasure-seeker and the invalid go leisurely over a good road to
pass a delightful summer among the beautiful parks through which it
leads. One of these is Manitou Park, which is a summer camping-ground
much frequented. The situation is very delightful and its summer
hotel is good."

And again the beautiful seven falls in Cheyenne Canyon, she thus
speaks of:--

"South Cheyenne is deep and narrow, and nearly a mile long, with
perpendicular walls of solid granite rising hundreds of feet and in
places over a thousand feet, naked and smooth, with only occasional
rifts. It is winding in its course, and narrows into gloomy
rock-bound cells or widens into pleasant amphitheatres. A small
stream runs quickly through the narrow rocky bed, pushing out around
great boulders and leaping over the small ones, forming innumerable
cascades that foam and gurgle and sing low quiet songs. At the head
of the canyon the water falls three hundred feet, vainly trying to
find a resting-place in its seven leaps to the bottom. Stairs have
been built to the top of these falls, where are grand views of the
canyon and the plains."

The society in Colorado Springs and Manitou is thus detailed by Mrs.
Dunbar:--

"The society is the very best; people of culture and refinement, and
many possessing much wealth, have been attracted here by the climate
and surroundings, and these have drawn others of like tastes and
habits, till on this little mesa where the mountains and the plains
meet, there has grown up in a few short years a city of nearly six
thousand people, 'the cream of eastern society.' Although Colorado
Springs is pre-eminently a health resort, and THE health resort of
the West, and although 'wealthy invalids from the East make up a good
part of the population of the city,' others besides invalids are
settled here. Men of means from the East owning large herds of cattle
and sheep that roam over the great western plains from Montana to
Mexico have found it best to make a home for themselves nearer their
business interests, and seeking the best place have come to Colorado
Springs. Others interested in the mineral wealt