The endless battle to save America s greatest road from its own demons
Highway 1 is one of America s most beautiful – and most troublesome – roads
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One of the problems with beauty is that it can appear effortless. It can look as if it were conjured with a singular flick of a magic wand, or in a lone moment of divine inspiration – when, in fact, perfection tends to be the fruit of a process that is long-winded, torturous and deeply impractical. And those epic end results? Welcome to years of maintenance, painstaking restoration, and fears that the glory of it all cannot be preserved in perpetuity.
Photo courtesy John M. Motter
Loggers had to improvise during the old days. This circa 1900 logger seems to be improvising with railroad ties and fence posts. The logs will roll down the fence posts from a flat rail car.
By John M. Motter
PREVIEW Columnist
Dr. Frank W. Eddy, University of Colorado at Boulder, directed a more recent study of the Chimney Rock Indian ruins during the summers of 1970, 1971 and 1972. We rely primarily upon his monograph, “Archaeological Investigations at Chimney Rock Mesa: 170-1972” for the following description of the people who lived there.
Cultural remains of the Pueblo Period II dating from A.D. 925 to A.D. 1125 were identified.