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| Colorado Springs & Pike's Peak from Satellite |
Snow-capped Pike’s Peak towers over Colorado Springs in this Landsat scene. At 14,110 feet above sea level, Pike’s Peak is the 31st highest peak in Colorado. Nestled in Colorado’s Front Range, it is the farthest east of the large Rocky Mountain peaks. Today the mountain bears the name of military explorer Zebulon Montgomery Pike, who viewed the mountain from a hundred miles away while exploring the far-flung, southwestern corners of the land that the United States obtained in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
For many years after the mountain acquired its English name, the region remained unsettled, but the discovery of gold in the late 1850s brought a rush of fortune seekers, and gave rise to the famous phrase “Pike’s Peak, or Bust!” In the 1870s, General William Palmer began building up the city of Colorado Springs in the valley below Pike’s Peak, and today, the city is Colorado’s second largest, with a population of nearly 900,000 in the city and surrounding metro area. |
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tini58de Wed Oct 19, 2005 08:23 UTC Wonderful pictures of the Garden of the Gods - they bring back wonderful memories! | freya_heaven Thu Apr 21, 2005 07:27 UTC Looks a beautiful area, Michael, nice page (~_~) | gilabrand Sun Mar 20, 2005 06:28 UTC What interesting rock formations. I like the camels. |
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