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Pike's Peak   /paɪkz pik/   Listen
Pike's Peak

noun
1.
A mountain peak in the Rockies in central Colorado (14,109 feet high).






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"Pike's Peak" Quotes from Famous Books



... went to Pike's Peak during the excitement and returned afterward, woke up and yawned two or three times, and said they used to have some trouble, a good many years ago getting over the range where the South Park road now goes from Chalk Creek Canon through ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye

... celebrated Rocky Mountain gold excitement broke out, more than twenty years ago, and people painted "PIKE'S PEAK OR BUST" on the canvas covers of their wagons and started for the diggings, they established a "trail" or "trace" leading in a southwesterly direction from the old ...
— Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 • Various

... Tweezy who's gotta win out, and you know it. And they's an 'if' the size of Pike's Peak between us and winning out. I tell you, I don't like it. It's ...
— The Heart of the Range • William Patterson White

... stands upon the shoulders of his ancestors. When you start for the top of Pike's Peak you start at Omaha. When you reach Denver you are six thousand feet in the air, and Pike's Peak is shouldered up on the foot-hills. Socrates is a great teacher, but look at Sphroniscus, the sculptor, his father. Paganini is a great musician, but Paganini was born of musicians ...
— The Battle of Principles - A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict • Newell Dwight Hillis



Words linked to "Pike's Peak" :   mountain peak, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, co, Rockies, Centennial State



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