washed away their treasures. This deposit has 

 been but little studied. But what it has yielded, 

 together with the magnitude of the unexamined 

 remainder, makes one eager concerning the ex- 

 tent and the nature of the treasures which still 

 lie buried in it. 



Helen Hunt, whose books helped awaken the 

 American people to the injustice done the In- 

 dian and to an appreciation of the scenic gran- 

 deur of the West, lived for many years at the 

 foot of this peak. Much of her writing was done 

 from commanding points on the peak. She was 

 temporarily buried on Cheyenne Mountain, and 

 on her former grave has accumulated a large 

 cairn of stones, contributed singly by apprecia- 

 tive pilgrims. 



South Cheyenne Canon, like Yosemite, gives 

 a large, clear, and pleasing picture to the mind. 

 This is due to the individuality and the artistic 

 grouping of the beauty and grandeur of the 

 canon. The canon is so narrow, and its high 

 walls so precipitous, that it could justly be called 

 an enormous cleft. At one point the walls are 

 only forty feet apart ; between these a road and 



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