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Excerpt from Sketches of Colorado, Vol. 1 of 4: Being an Analytical Summary and Biographical History of the State of Colorado, as Portrayed in the Lives of the Pioneers and the Prominent and Progressive Citizens Who Helped in the Development and History Making of Colorado The park systems of Colorado include several of large area. The San Luis Park, one of the largest, is known as the San Luis val ley. The North Park, in the northern part of the state, lies between the Front and Park ranges. South of it, encircled by mountain ranges, is Middle Park. Below the latter, in Park County, between Leadville and Crip ple Creek is situated South Park. Estes, a smaller park, has many scenic attractions. Egeria and Animas are also well known parks. The principal rivers in Colorado, the South Platte and the Arkansas, rising in the mountains, and fed by numerous tributaries, flow through the plains in the eastern part of Colorado. In the southwestern section of the state, are the Rio Grande, San Juan and Dolores, and in the western and northwestern, the Gunnison, Grand, White, Yampa, and other streams, well fed by many smaller, from the mountains. Mineral springs abound and have led to the founding of towns and popular resorts, Manitou and Glenwood Springs being the larger and better known. Many lakes are nestled in the higher ranges, the plateaus, valleys and plains, and among the principal ones are Twin Lakes, Grand Lake, San Luis, San Cristobal, Evergreen, Barr - a list of an hundred might be given popular for resorts or sportsmen. The great reservoirs now constructed or building for irrigation, rival some of the natural lakes in size, and in alluring, ducks, geese, and water fowl in their migrations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.