Journey through the human story of Rocky Mountain National Park, from its earliest inhabitants to the visionaries who protected this majestic landscape.
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Eleven Thousand Years of High Country
This series, Echoes of the Past, traces the human history of Rocky Mountain National Park, from its earliest inhabitants to the people who fought to protect it.
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Ancient Peoples of the High Country
Stone game walls near the alpine tundra, some over a thousand years old, still stand where Ute and Arapaho hunters once drove elk and bighorn sheep along ridgelines…
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Ghost Towns Above the Timber Line
In 1820, Major Stephen H.
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Enos Mills and the Fight for Protection
Enos Mills first arrived in these mountains as a sickly fourteen-year-old from Kansas in 1884.
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Depression-Era Workers Shaped This Landscape
Between 1933 and 1942, roughly nine hundred young men lived and worked in camps scattered across these mountains as part of the Civilian Conservation Corps.
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Three Million Visitors and Counting Each Year
Rocky Mountain National Park now receives over four million visitors annually, a number that would have been unthinkable in its early decades.
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