| Garden of the Gods is one of the most
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| | kneeling figures of two camels with lips
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| interesting and worth seeing rock
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| | pressed together in a deathless kiss of
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| formations in the state of Colorado. It
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| | love." The old timers of the city of
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| is located in Colorado and Manitou
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| | Colorado Springs, especially native
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| Springs. The founders of Colorado Springs
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| | Americans believe in this legend and try
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| named it Garden of the Gods because
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| | to pass it to future generations, so the
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| believed that it was a gathering place
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| | myth of Kissing Camels will be always
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| for Gods. It was also a place where
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| | alive.
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| Pueblo Indians lived. In 1879, Charles
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| | Another interesting one is the double
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| Perkins, who was a president of the
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| | formation. Its name depends on the side
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| Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad at
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| | that people look at it from. If one looks
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| that time, purchased much of the land of
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| | from the east he or she would name it the
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| modern Garden of the Gods. After his
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| | Siamese Twins; looking from the south the
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| death, at his request, his family gave
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| | two rocks seem to line up to form one,
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| the land to the City of Colorado Springs
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| | and together with a nearby rock become
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| to be used as a park.
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| | Punch and Judy.
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| The geology of Garden of the Gods goes
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| | What kind of Garden of the Gods it would
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| back in history for about a billion years
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| | be without a cave? Of course, it has a
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| ago when the Pikes Peak Granite was
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| | cave. The cave discovered by Spaulding
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| formed. The development of present Garden
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| | gained its popularity over the years. In
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| of the Gods owes to three major
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| | the summer of 1858 the Lawrence Party of
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| mountain-building pulses that happened in
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| | gold seekers used it as shelter from the
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| history. First one took place about three
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| | afternoon thunderstorms. In 1859 a young
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| hundred million years ago with the
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| | gold seeker from Illinois crawled up the
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| development of Ancestral Rockies;
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| | narrow passageway into the great cave; he
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| Fountain Formation was deposited then
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| | wrote that his whispers echoed off the
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| also. The second one happened during
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| | cavern walls like the sounds of thunder.
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| Paleocene period that was sixty-seventy
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| | The cave's dark passageways were explored
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| million years ago with the tilting up of
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| | by the visitors for the next half a
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| the Sedimentary formations of the Garden
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| | century; and it almost became a tradition
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| of the Gods. Finally, the third
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| | for the visitors to carve their names on
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| mounting-building pulse was during
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| | the walls of the cave. By the end of the
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| Miocene Period (twelve-twenty three
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| | century, the entrance of the cave became
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| million years ago) and it resulted the
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| | covered with bushes and the because of
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| erosion in Rockies. The final shaping of
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| | that the cave kind of disappeared from
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| modern Garden of the Gods happened during
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| | visitors. However, in 1935 the entrance
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| Holocene Period due to the forces of
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| | was re-discovered. The park authorities
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| erosion like wind and sand (because of
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| | planned to allow visitors inside the cave
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| them Garden of the Gods has a landscape
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| | but due to the falling rocks they had to
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| of red rocks).
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| | change their minds and the entrance was
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| Probably, the most exciting rock
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| | sealed forever. The only way to learn
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| formation in the whole Garden of the Gods
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| | about the Spaulding's cave is to use
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| is Kissing Camels. It is a very unique
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| | earlier visitors' notes.
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| rock that looks like two kissing camels.
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| | Garden of the Gods with its myths and
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| It is like a symbol of Garden of the
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| | legends is the inseparable part of our
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| Gods. The story tells that two Indian
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| | state's history which is a component of
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| lovers named Alpha and Omega, each was
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| | the history of our nation. Just like old
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| from a different tribes that were in war.
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| | timers of Colorado tell us the stories
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| One day they were caught hugging each
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| | about our state we will have to tell
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| other. They were carried to the top of
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| | these stories to the future generations.
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| North Gateway Rock, where they were
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| | So, we should all keep these stories and
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| burned to death in separate funeral
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| | not let them die. It should be a lot
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| pyres. "And in the morning," so the
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| | easier to find stories like the ones I
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| legend ends, "when the sun looked on the
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| | wrote about.
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| smoke blackened cliff, there was seen the
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