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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



... crushed-looking hat with a palsied rose atop it. Nor that Hosea C. Brewster was spectacled and slippered. Not at all. The Hosea C. Brewsters, of Winnebago, Wisconsin, were the people you've met on the veranda of the Moana Hotel at Honolulu, or at the top of Pike's Peak, or peering into the restless heart of Vesuvius. They were the prosperous Middle-Western type of citizen who runs down to Chicago to see the new plays and buy a hat, and to order a dozen Wedgwood ...
— Half Portions • Edna Ferber
... for it, you know. But I have decided on two things, viz: Any of you, or all of you, may live in California, for that is the Garden of Eden reproduced—but you shall never live in Nevada; and secondly, none of you, save Mr. Moffett, shall ever cross the Plains. If you were only going to Pike's Peak, a little matter of 700 miles from St. Jo, you might take the coach, and I wouldn't say a word. But I consider it over 2,000 miles from St. Jo to Carson, and the first 6 or 800 miles is mere Fourth of July, compared ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


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


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