| 1884 print PIKES PEAK FROM GARDEN OF THE GODS, ROCKY MOUNTAINS, COLORADO (#54) |
Nice view titled Pikes Peak vom Gottergarten aus gesehen, from wood engraving with fine detail and clear impression, nice hand coloring, approx. page size is 35 x 26 cm, approx. image size is 23 x 16 cm. From: Amerika in Wort und Bild, eine Schilderung der Vereinigten Staaten von Friedrich von Hellwald, publisher Heinrich Schmidt & Carl Gunther, Leipzig, 1884.
This view was first published in Picturesque America, which was a two-volume set of books describing and illustrating the scenery of America, which grew out of an earlier series in Appleton's Journal. It was published by D. Appleton and Company of New York in 1872 and 1874 and edited by the romantic poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), who also edited the New York Evening Post.
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Pikes Peak
Pikes Peak is the highest summit of the southern Front Range of
the Rocky Mountains of North America. The ultra-prominent 14,115-foot
(4,302.31 m) fourteener is located in Pike National Forest, 12.0
miles (19.3 km) west by south (bearing 263°) of downtown
Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The
mountain is named in honor of American explorer Zebulon Pike who
was unable to reach the summit. The summit is higher than any
point in the United States east of its longitude.
Mountain
Pikes Peak is one of Colorado's 53 fourteeners, mountains that
rise more than 14,000 feet (4,267.2 m) above sea level. The
mountain rises 8,000 ft (2,400 m) above downtown Colorado Springs.
Pikes Peak is a designated National Historic Landmark.
"Tava" or “sun,” is the Ute word that was given by
these first people to the mountain that we now call Pikes Peak.
The band of Ute people who called the Pikes Peak region their
home were the "Tabeguache," meaning the "People of
Sun Mountain." The Ute people first arrived in Colorado
about 500 A.D., although their traditions say they were created
on Pikes Peak. In the 1800s, when the Arapaho people arrived in
Colorado, they knew the mountain as "Heey-otoyoo’ "
meaning "Long Mountain". Early Spanish explorers named
the mountain "El Capitán" meaning "The Leader".
American explorer Zebulon Pike named the mountain "Highest
Peak" in 1806, and the mountain was later commonly known as
"Pike's Highest Peak". American explorer Stephen
Harriman Long named the mountain "James Peak" in honor
of Edwin James who climbed to the summit in 1820. The mountain
was later renamed "Pike's Peak" in honor of Pike. The
name was simplified to "Pikes Peak" by the United
States Board on Geographic Names in 1890.
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