Cook’s Peak, towering majestically as a…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

Cook’s Peak, towering majestically as a land mark, which can be seen for fifty miles in all directions, looks silently down upon the graves of innumerable brave men, over whose butchered remains the spectre sentinel stands a lonely vigil. Dozens of Americans and Mexi- cans who left their homes in the full flush and vigor of manhood, never reached their desti- nation, nor were they ever heard of afterwards in life; their mangled remains are scattered along the sides of the Cook’s canyon road.