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Show Early Explorer Honored Capt John W. Gunnison paid with his life his search for a feasible feas-ible route for a transcontinental railroad. rail-road. Gunnison was chief of a coups of topographical engineers of the United States War department in 1S53 seeking seek-ing a railroad line across the country coun-try from the Missouri river to the Pacific Pa-cific coast He crossed what is known today as Cochetopa pass and dlscov- li ered the river that bears his nama I today. Crossing over into Utah, he reached the Sevier river, where he was murdered by Indians October 25, 18G3. Gunnison's name today is borne in Colorado by a river, a national forest, for-est, a county and a city as his lusting lust-ing monuments. |