Frontier Footprints: A True History of the Rocky Mountains by Amy Kathryn Allen

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…The ranches, the farms, the nascent towns, and the encroaching railroads – all were threads in a tapestry that was steadily unravelling the wild, untamed essence of the Rocky Mountains. The wind still whispered through the pines, but its song was no longer solely of wilderness. It now carried the echoes of human endeavor, the sounds of progress, and the melancholic lament for a world that was irrevocably changing. The heart of the Rockies, though still beating strong, was beginning to beat to a different drum, a drum that signaled the taming of the untamed.