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This article focuses on the mountain Pikes Peak in Colorado. Colorado Springs, a fair and sunny city reposing on the great plain at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, yet has itself an altitude nearly the same as the summit of Mount Washington. Many years ago fire swept over these mountain spaces, and miles of spruces now stand tall and gaunt, reaching ineffectual white fingers to the sky. Golden-rod of several kinds appeared above 10,000 feet elevation, greatly dwarfed, but lavishly bright and sunny.