Born-Digital or AnalogAnalogTranscriptthem in ,restless sort of way, like so many m- ghty lions about their lair To us this apparent restlessness suggested a consciousness of their terrific destructive power, which only awaited a mandate from the 'God of Storms' to be set in motion. We even now held those peaks in awe, as there seemed to be somewhere in their midst a regular 'manufactory of storms."' With this evidence I have little doubt that this survey named Eolus for the God of the Winds. Further on in the same report (1874) Rhoda says- "The group of quartzite peaks ranging in height from 13,600 to 14,054 feet, where the line culminates in Mount Aeolus and Pidgeon's Peak." The early names for the group are diverse. Marshall's 1875 report (Wheeler 1876) gives a description of the ranges in the San Juan. This one he designates as "The Needles, Florida's Comb, or Sierra Los Pinos of New- berry". On the Wheeler maps they are shown as "Quartzite Crags" (1876) and "Florida Crags" (1878). The two remaining peaks were named by Mr. Cross of the U. S. G. S. when he mapped the region about 1902. His letter to me says that he had no special reason for giving the names Sunlight and Windom. They were merely two summits out of thirty which he had to designate. Win. Windom was congressman, senator, and Secret, f the Treasury. He was a typical politician of his day in that he spent l rly life in a log cabin.CollectionWestern History Subject IndexRelated MaterialWestern History Subject Index AbbreviationsType of MaterialIndex CardLanguageeng
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