(CO.) Map Of Colorado Territory, And Northern Portion Of New Mexico Coast Survey With a huge Sea serpent

With a huge Sea serpent at the center of the Cape Bay

“The Allagany Mountains”)

becoming the green of Long Island

Once mostly dominated by a handful of huge counties

This map from an original limited edition set of 500

(CO.) Map Of Colorado Territory, And Northern Portion Of New Mexico Coast Survey With a huge Sea serpent(CO.) Map Of Colorado Territory, And Northern Portion Of New Mexico Showing The System of Parcs., Gilpin, 1873 The premise of "Parks" across Colorado were anchored in notations from Fremont's famous map of the West from 1842, where he identified these individually enclosed regions ("New Park", "Old Park", "South Park") that were encircle by mountain ranges and made these large high altitude plains, many of which at the time were abundant with game.