"Entering the Narrows." 



Two Days on the St. Vrain. 



If the reader will take a map of Colorado and locate the 

 little town of Lyons (forty-eight miles north of Denver, the 

 terminus of the Estes Park, branch of the Burlington & Mis- 

 souri River Railroad) he will find a crooked little mountain 

 stream called the St. Vrain. Taking its rise away up among 

 the snow-capped peaks on the "Continental Divide," it winds 

 and twists its way down the eastern slopes merging into 

 civilization at Lyons. After leaving its rock-bound bed it 

 glides out into a broad, fertile valley. On either bank are rich, 

 alluvial lands, the course of the river through which can be 



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