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All weekend long, American History tv is featuring Colorado Springs colorado. Dry, and mild climate made it popular as a health resort, especially for people suffering from tuberculosis. Our Comcast Cable staff rs, our cspan visited many sites learning about Colorado Springs history. Palmer saw possibilities and it was the hink mountains that he fell in love with. Where Colorado Springs is nestled, right up against pikes peak. What he saw as our greatest economic driver was the climate the fact ountains and that people like him felt from the east coast would be drawn here to live for a few weeks or a few months. They would be drawn by the the ful climate and stunning, natural beauty. So he saw in this place potential. He built Colorado Springs along the rail lines, and in the rail lines connected further south, and he built this town, in to be his home and he always saw it as an anecdote, if you will, to eastern industrialization. This young man, who grew up in the second largest city
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