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Beyond the moraine the railroad passes through a swampy flat, 
which is possibly the cirque of a much older glucie than those just 
escribed. The traveler will see on the right the sta- 
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aad eae tion of a ranger who guards the national forest. 
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Abeaag ie seats Although his station is desolate and the passing trains 
are his only diversion this ranger must remain here 
on duty to prevent forest fires and to look after the interests of the 
Forest Service. At last the train stops in a small cut, and the traveler 
is at the summit of Marshall Pass, more than 2 cifles above the level 
of the sea. This pass as it appears from the hills on the south is rep- 
resented in Plate LXIX, A. The view from the summit, like that 
from many high moutiitaing; is not so striking as a view from a point 
lower down, but it rachislas a vast expanse of country, especially on 
the west. F ew real mountains can be seen in that direction, and the 
high land in sight consists mostly of vast plateaus which lie at differ- 
ent elevations. 
The pass was named in honor of Lieut. William L. 
Marshall, who was the first white man to cross it, in 1873. 
™* Marshall Pass was discovered in 
1873 by Lieut. William L. Marshall, 
later chief of engineers in the United 
ration in 
find relief from toothache. The fol- 
lowing account of the discovery is con- 
ensed from a recent article on the 
Subject by Thomas F. Dawson in “ The 
Trail” (Sept., 1920), the official van 
orai 
untain explora- 
tion and he decided to eg work 
and go to Denver. It was arranged 
that the party should etigia the regu- 
ar route by way of Cochetopa Pass, 
but as Lieut. Marshall had a very 
Painful to. toothache, he decided to pros 
of Twin Lakes but found the 
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snow too deep; then he tried an en- 
crossed. Lieut. 3 
the pass he had aaseete d was one 
over which a road or even a railroad 
could easily be : Saliabeactatd so despite 
t ey win 
paring a pro 
proaches on “both 
When the observ ations were com- 
pleted the party pushed on to Denver, 
where a dentist soon relieved the tooth- 
ache. In a short time the news of the 
discovery of the pass became noised 
about and Lieut. Marshall was waited 
upon by a delegation of prominent 
citizens who, with true western push, 
organized the Marshall ai Pall Toll Road 
Co. and in a few months completed a 
wagon road through the pass 
What would the traveler of t 
think of ite a mule-back ces 
of 300 mi n the snow across the 
mountains of ‘Sanehe to find reliet 
showing the ap- 
des 
