![]() ![]() ![]() It is late October and winter is coming on. Though the sun is shining this afternoon, it will not warm above thirty here near the Continental Divide, and the sweat I worked up scaling this face is now making me shiver. This is the kind of country you could ride across for days on horseback without seeing another living soul. Zane Grey immortalized it as the purple sage, but most of the year it's more of a silver gray. ![]() Spreading out below me the landscape is a sea of sagebrush for mile after lonesome mile. Waves are rushing in from the great blue above, cresting upon the ridge of the mountain I have climbed, somewhere in the Sawatch Range of central Colorado. The wind in the top of the pines behind me sounds like the ocean. Cole Porter "Don't Fence Me In" A t last, I am surrounded by wilderness. I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in. It is always frontier, and we who live in it must accept and even rejoice that it remains untamed. The spiritual life cannot be made suburban. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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