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The Mountains
Seattle Though we collectively call them The Rockies, the large
section of high alpine country, which girds the western portions
of the country, resolve themselves into a number of distinct,
and somewhat interlocking ranges. So forbidding were these
ranges, that for much of the history of this country, it was
faster, easier, and safer, to take a ship all the way around
South America, in order to get to the east, than to attempt
crossing the mountains. Eventually passes were discovered, and
finally the railroads came though. Today, I can drive to this
area, in the space of a couple of days. Our two day trip to
Seattle, would have been a harrowing, dangerous journey of
months, a a hundred or so years ago. |
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