Word: colorado
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Died. Roy Best, 54, keg-shaped, iron-fisted,warden of Colorado's Canon City penitentiary; of a heart attack; near Colorado Springs. A onetime cowpuncher, he took charge of the penitentiary in 1932, quickly became the boy wonder of U.S. wardens. Discarding traditional convicts' stripes, he served good food, set up shops to keep prisoners busy and make the prison pay. Fond of the whip and the lash, he boasted that he was tougher than any convict, two years ago was indicted (but never convicted) for flogging five would-be escapees...
...Sunday, Aug. 24, 1873, pioneer Western Photographer William H. Jackson and his helpers clambered up the iced boulders of Colorado's wild Sawatch mountains with a bulky camera, primitive film, darkroom tent and developing chemicals to make the first photograph of a natural wonder: the Mountain of the Holy Cross. Jackson made thousands of other pictures, but Holy Cross was considered his masterpiece. Despite technical progress, the thousands of Holy Cross photographs made since never surpassed Jackson's famous picture. And none, it turned out last week, ever will...
...mountain with the cross, formed by two great snow-packed crevices. After Jackson's picture made the mountain celebrated, pilgrims and plain tourists came by the thousands. Eventually, just 25 years ago, President Herbert Hoover proclaimed the mountain a national monument. With due ceremony, Colorado last week began to celebrate the monument's 25th anniversary...
...bells had scarcely stopped ringing last week when Colorado quietly called off the rest of the 25th anniversary ceremonies...
Head of the "Solid State Group" of the United states Geological Survey in Washington, D.C., Garrels has done field work in Newfoundland, the Mississippi Valley, the Boulder river area of Montana, and the Colorado Plateaus...