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Colorado's Grand Canyon, probably the most famous landmark of the United States, can be the highpoint of your Western vacation.
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* Smith, Duane A. Henry M. Teller: Colorado's Grand Old Man, 2002 online edition
The Mormons also made many attempts to construct dams on the river to provide irrigation water — as far upstream as the confluence of the river's forks and as far downstream as below Grand Falls — but most of them failed because of the Little Colorado's fickle variations in discharge.
Despite the delays and setbacks Jackson returned with conclusive photographic evidence of the various western landmarks that had previously seemed only a fantastic myth: the Grand Tetons, Old Faithful and the rest of Yellowstone, Colorado's Rockies and the Mount of the Holy Cross, and the uncooperative Ute Indians.
Grand Lake is Colorado's largest and deepest natural lake.
The Native Garden is a miniature replica of Colorado's Grand Valley, including the Grand Mesa, the Colorado National Monument and Mount Garfield, with plantings related to the 13 geological zones of Western Colorado.
Project Rulison, named after the rural community of Rulison, Colorado, was a 40-kiloton nuclear test project in the United States on September 10, 1969, about 8 miles SE of the town of Grand Valley, Colorado ( now named Parachute, Colorado ) near western Colorado's Grand Valley in Garfield County.
Colorado's and Canyon
The general outline of this project was for a dam on the Colorado River at Glen Canyon, several other dams on the Gunnison and San Juan tributaries of the Colorado, and a pair of dams to be built on the Green River, the Colorado's major upper tributary, at Echo Park and Split Mountain.
When Powell and his crew arrived here in 1869, it was this color of the river that they saw, while the Colorado's green color is caused by Glen Canyon Dam trapping sediment.
On July 31, 1976, during the celebration of Colorado's centennial, the Big Thompson Canyon was the site of a devastating flash flood that swept down the steep and narrow canyon, claiming the lives of 143 people, 5 of whom were never found.
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By 1895, Leadville mines posted their largest combined output since 1889, and Leadville was then Colorado's most productive mine camp, producing almost 9. 5 million ounces of silver.
Colorado's Front Range cities and agriculture interests upstream have acquired most of the water rights, and the groundwater aquifers are drying up ; Kiowa County faces ever-decreasing water supplies and further economic decline.
For example, the Gila River – formerly one of the Colorado's largest tributaries – contributes little more than a trickle in most years due to use of its water by cities and farms in central Arizona.
This Horsetooth water, originating from Colorado's west slope, would be piped to most of the NISP subscriber communities outside the Poudre basin instead of going to agricultural users downstream on the Poudre River and South Platte River.
However, Cleveland and eastern Democrats opposed government purchase of silver, Colorado's most important product, which made Cleveland unpopular in the state.
The pole sat on the mountain for roughly twenty years, until it disappeared at some time in the 1980s, most likely as part of an effort to clean up Colorado's Fourteeners.
Capitol Peak is one of the most difficult of Colorado's fourteeners to climb.
The view of the Maroon Bells to the southwest from the Maroon Creek valley is one of the most famous scenes in Colorado, and is reputed to be the " most-photographed spot in Colorado " and one of Colorado's premier scenic overlooks.
Colorado's and United
* 1967 – Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
** Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
Weld County is Colorado's leading producer of cattle, grain and sugar beets, and is the richest agricultural county in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, and the fourth richest overall nationally.
It was named for Jerome B. Chaffee, Colorado's first United States Senator.
Colorado's legislature does not have an analog to the filibuster in the United States Senate requiring a supermajority for approval of any matter.
On July 15, 1991, Colorado's E-470 became the first highway in the United States to implement electronic tolling, via its " EXpressToll " system.
* 20 – In Romer v. Evans, the Supreme Court of the United States rules 6 – 3 that Colorado's Amendment 2, which would have voided existing gay rights laws in Colorado and prevented any new gay rights laws from taking effect, is unconstitutional.
* 10 – The United States Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Romer v. Evans, the case that would eventually overturn Colorado's Amendment 2, which banned gay rights laws in the state.
Climbing all of Colorado's fourteeners is a popular pastime among peak baggers ; another popular target is climbing all of the fourteeners in the contiguous United States.
After unsuccessfully running for the United States Senate, Routt ran successfully for the governorship again in 1891, and served as Colorado's seventh Governor until 1897.
This was Colorado's first Senate election by popular vote under the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
A scenic overlook near the pass allows visitors to take in the alpine tundra environment above tree-line, and offers excellent views of Mount Elbert, Colorado's highest peak and the second-highest mountain in the contiguous United States, to the east.
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The accusations, animosity, gunplay, and expulsions which followed were one part of an ongoing struggle throughout Colorado's mining communities which came to be called the Colorado Labor Wars.
In July 1990, 72 men met at Boulder Valley Christian Church in Boulder to organize what would be Promise Keepers ' first event at University of Colorado's Event Center.
* The American Institute of Architects selected Red Rocks to be Colorado's entry at the National Gallery of Art for the AIA's Centennial Exhibition in 1957.
His next exhibit Terrestrial Physics, is scheduled to be displayed in June 2010 as part of Denver, Colorado's Biennial of the Americas.
Another spectacular example of conglomerate, the Crestone Conglomerate may be viewed in and near the town of Crestone, at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Range in Colorado's San Luis Valley.
He has said his top priority on Capitol Hill will be ensuring that water derived from the snow melt of Colorado's Western Slope will stay in his district instead of being sent to California or Nevada.
" Denver, Colorado's KBTV did not air the episode, stating that after previewing it " We have decided, without hesitation, that it would be offensive to a major segment of the audience "; Portland, Oregon's KATU and Seattle, Washington's KOMO-TV also decided to not show the episode.
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File: The Royal Gorge Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. JPG | The train in the shadow of Colorado's highest mountain, Mount Elbert.
Chris Henderson scored a mid-air volley past Dallas keeper Mark Dodd in the 87th minute in the Western Conference final, ensuring Colorado's place in the MLS Cup final.
* Suggs, Jr., George G. Colorado's War on Militant Unionism: James H. Peabody and the Western Federation of Miners.
After several years of working in hospitals across the country, she settled in a remote portion of Colorado's Western Slope.
After coming west, he fortuitously helped William N. Byers publish the first extra edition of the Rocky Mountain News on June 11, 1859, and then with his partners in the Boston Company established Colorado's fourth newspaper, the Western Mountaineer, in Golden on December 4, 1859.
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