Show r t i I ? ft Violence and tranquility f mark the scenic way west p for vacation-houn- d H - ' is written along the highways into the scenic west Traveling UJS 40 6 or 50 through Colorado you follow trails blazed by Pike Long Fremont Gunnison and the hardy trappers and mountain men of a century and more ago And you hear of the fabulous gold and silver strikes on Cherry Creek at Idaho Springs and Central City and a score of other towns long since relegated to ghostly realms You climb passes topping 11000 feet and still the shining peaks of the Rockies rise more thou- sands of feet into the skies Through western Colorado you see modern history in the mak-- i ing as men wrest new fortunes from the earth in the form of uranium Astride the Utah- Colorado line where the Green and Yampa rivers carve the chasms of Dinosaur Monument you can take a side trip to the dinosaur quarries or take a week and run the river route first negotiated by Maj John W Powell through these mag nomads nificent canyons Through Wyoming along US 30 the hills roll endlessly over the horizon yet you’re more than a mile above sea level and the wind is cool You parallel the old Overland Trail Just to the north are the pioneer routes of the Old Oregon Trail and the Mormon Trail of 1847 that led to the valley of the Great Salt Lake Capt B L E Bonneville pushed his torturous way across here in 1832 and eight years earlier Ashley’s expedition made rendezvous with traders and trappers near Burnt Fork Remains of old stage stations stockades and trading posts dot this route and just east of Evanston old Ft Bridger is preserved today virtually the same as it appeared when built in 1843 To the south the high Uintas ride with you and ahead the Wasatch range thrusts its great mass skyward and £ou follow canyon trails the wagon trains cut to the City of the Saints Mountains and mountaineers reach the sky in the Rockies |