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  • Mr. W---- met us at 5 o'clock A.M. at the "Hot Springs," so called from the boiling water that gushes out of the ground, and which is said to give the name of "Uncompahgre" to the district, that being the Indian word for hot water.

    A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba Cecil Hall

  • One occurred in the 1990s on the Uncompahgre Plateau, the second is ongoing in the Roaring Fork Valley Aspen and Glenwood.

    Wendy Keefover-Ring: Legislators: Scared of Bears Wendy Keefover-Ring 2011

  • One occurred in the 1990s on the Uncompahgre Plateau, the second is ongoing in the Roaring Fork Valley Aspen and Glenwood.

    Wendy Keefover-Ring: Legislators: Scared of Bears Wendy Keefover-Ring 2011

  • Ouray the Arrow was the chief of the Uncompahgre Utes of Colorado, a chief by virtue of inheritance rather than by prowess in battle.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • The sharp, juvenile peaks of the Uncompahgre made the steep incline of Black Bear Pass look as forbidding as a path up Everest.

    Higher Authority White, Stephen, 1951- 1994

  • I fancy one could never tire of it, and wish so much I could describe the view we had from our Ranch looking up the Uncompahgre. -- the valley bright yellow with the grasses and aspen trees turning colour from the frosts, the scarlet dwarf oak on the foot-hill, and the mountains lost in the blue distance.

    A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba Cecil Hall

  • Uncompahgre, a tributary of the Gunnison, and finally a branch, flowing westward, of the Uncompahgre.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 Various

  • But with daylight we quite altered our opinions; as really I do not think, if you searched the whole world over, you would find anything more beautiful than the Uncompahgre valley and park looked in the morning light.

    A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba Cecil Hall

  • I reckon, son, there's no greater story worth the tellin 'than the Uncompahgre tunnel.

    The Boy With the U. S. Foresters Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

  • Many a happy journey and delightful climb I have had in the mountains all alone by moonlight, and in the Uncompahgre district I had many a moonlight ramble.

    Wild Life on the Rockies Enos Abijah Mills 1896

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