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Scotts Bluff was a guide for the pioneers en route to Oregon and Cali 

 fornia. It guided the missionaries in their trips among the Indians. It was 

 a station on the Pony Express. It figured in Indian wars. In 1847, Fort 

 Fontanelle was established at its base. In more recent years, a tunnel has 

 been bored through its base, and through it flows a great flood of water to 

 irrigate thousands of acres of land on the North Platte project. It is visited 

 by thousands each year, being one of the most popular of the monuments. 

 Scotts Bluff is reached by the Lincoln Highway through the North Platte 

 Valley or by rail from Gering on the Union Pacific and from Scottsbluff on 

 the Burlington Route. 



HOVENWEEP MONUMENT 



Hovenweep Monument preserves some unusual prehistoric towers, pueb 

 los, and cliff dwellings, not far from Mesa Verde National Park on the 

 Colorado and Utah boundary line. They represent a special architectural 

 type peculiar to this region, and are important in the study of the ancient 

 life of the Southwest. The ruins are reached from Mesa Verde National 

 Park, or via the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad to Dolores, Colorado. 



COLORADO NATIONAL MONUMENT 



Five miles from Grand Junction, Colorado, on the Denver & Rio 

 Grande Railroad, is the Colorado National Monument, a beautiful and pic 

 turesque collection of monoliths and other examples of erosion, all highly 

 colored. The reservation is 13,883 acres in extent, is plentifully supplied 

 with springs, and is a veritable forest of monoliths. It is reached by the 

 Pikes Peak Ocean-to-Ocean Highway and the National Roosevelt Midland 

 Trail. It is a fine camping spot for motorists. 



YUCCA HOUSE MONUMENT 



Yucca House Monument, so named because of the quantity of yuccas 

 growing in the vicinity, is in southwestern Colorado. The area contains the 

 ruins of a prehistoric Indian village yet to be excavated. It is apparently a 

 house of great size, built on the gentle slope of Sleeping Ute, a mountain so 

 named because when seen from certain points it resembles the form of a 

 sleeping Indian. The monument is near the road from Shiprock, New 

 Mexico, to Cortez, Colorado, about fifteen miles from the latter town. 



THE DEVILS TOWER 



The alleged works of His Satanic Majesty figure prominently in the 

 choice of national monuments, but nowhere is there an object of greater 

 wonder than the Devils Tower in the Black Hills region of Wyoming. This 

 great group of pentagonal volcanic columns rises six hundred feet, or higher 

 than the Washington Monument, perpendicularly from the surrounding plain. 

 The diameter at the base is seventeen hundred feet. It is one of the strangest 

 freaks of Nature, a spectacle never to be forgotten. 



