Word: berthoud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were any of the others, up through No. 6. Finally, on his wedding day, Harr made one last attempt. When he got to the top, he found that No. 7 had everything. It was 12,486 ft. high, towered above U.S. Route 40, and to top it all, overlooked Berthoud Pass, named after a former president of the board of trustees...
Trailed by a carload of Secret Service men, the black Cadillac turned westward, picked up Route 40 outside Denver and headed into the Rockies. Twisting and climbing to a top of 11,314 ft. in Berthoud Pass on the Continental Divide, Route 40 west of Denver is a spectacular highway. It was a ride Ike thoroughly enjoyed, and he was making it in pleasant company. With him were his mother-in-law, Mrs. John Doud, and a pair of old friends, General Lucius Clay and Washington Contractor Charles Tompkins. Mamie, who has been feeling under the weather and has appeared...
...Western Touch. From Berthoud Pass, the Cadillac rolled down the western slope of the Rockies into a long, grassy valley (alt.: 8,561 ft.), at one end of which lies the town of Fraser (pop. 350). Fraser, whose dusty streets and log buildings look like sets for a horse opera, was a little subdued. There had been a fatal shooting in Bud's Bar a few days before, and most everyone was getting ready to go to the funeral...