CSPAN William Jackson Palmer June 22, 2024
Palmer saw possibilities, and i think it might be the mountains that he fell in love with, and it is right up against pikes peak and this wonderful place, that what he saw as the economic driver was the climate and the mountains, and the fact that peoples people like himself from the atlantic seaboard would be drawn here, so here for a few weeks or a month or to come and visit and decide to stay, that they would be drawn by the helpful climate and in natural beauty, so he saw this place potentia...
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