LEGENDS OF THE PIKE'S PEAK REGION: THE SACRED MYTHS OF THE MANITOU

12mo, 52pp, five illustrations by Parrish, stiff printed wraps, coffee (?) stain noted at front cover at top two inches or so, which has bled through causing dime-sized stains on the endpapers and a very tiny stain on the title-page, small gouge at spine, otherwise light wear and soiling. "The question as to the identity of the earliest inhabitants in the Pike's Peak region is a difficult one to answer, but the conclusion of the latest historian is that a race which had made considerable progress in civilization dwelt for centuries in Colorado. Then a more barbarous people encroached upon its territory, and it was crowded southward step by step, advancing in civilization as it was driven from barbarism, leaving picturesque ruins along its later path.".