# Excursion Boat Passing Through Canal / Rocky Mountains of Colorado and the Royal Gorge / Estes Park, Colorado / A Trip to Santa Fe / Children in Canvas Bathtub / Petrified Forests of Arizona

Excursion Boat Passing Through Canal / Rocky Mountains of Colorado and the Royal Gorge / Estes Park, Colorado / A Trip to Santa Fe / Children in Canvas Bathtub / Petrified Forests of Arizona Produced: 1916 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Excursion boat passes through canal. \[1916\] b. “Horseshoe Falls in Estes Park.” “In the park of the Red Rocks we found strange formations reared in the landscape by nature’s workmen.” “The Pillars of Hercules. Swarthy sentinels looking up a sheer 1,000 feet with a passageway of only forty feet majestically guard the approach to Cheyenne Canyon.” “Winding up the canyon we came to ‘Seven Falls,’ a torrent of water rushing down mighty cliffs on one side of a colossal amphitheater. The precipitous cliffs show seven distinct terraces down which the foaming torrent plunges.” “And at the base of the falls we found an artificial aid to vanity, burros well fed and carefully slicked than which you are informed there are none slicker, and your ‘photo’ on a burro with the falls for a background for a shilling.” Tourists ride burros. “A friendly chipmunk not to be outdone or better not to be done out of peanuts visited with us while we set ’em up!” “At Canyon City we found a large herd of elk. When winter comes, the elk come down into the valleys to escape the severe weather on the mountains. Just before they leave the big bulls travel the mountains from end to end driving young and…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1916
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education, Children's
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fc-fc-4)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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