Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- By ANNA FULLER A Literary Courtship: Under the Auspices of Pike's Peak. 28th thousand. 16 deg. $1.25 A Venetian June. Illustrated. 15th thousand. 16 deg. $1.25 Peak and Prairie: From a Colorado Sketch-Book. Illustrated. 7th thousand. 16 deg. New Edition. 12 deg. $1.50 Pratt Portraits: Sketched in a New England Suburb. Illustrated, 12th thousand. 12 deg. $1.50 One of the Pilgrims. A Bank Story. 6th thousand. 12 deg. $1.25 Katherine Day. 8th thousand. 12 deg. $1.50 A Bookful of Girls. 4th thousand. Illustrated. 12 deg. $1.50 Later Pratt Portraits. Illustrated $1.50 net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Illustration: "THE PEAK WAS SUPERB THAT MORNING, BIG AND STRONG AND GLITTERING WITH SNOW."] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PEAK AND PRAIRIE From a Colorado Sketch Book By ANNA FULLER Author of "A Literary Courtship" "Pratt Portraits," Etc. Illustrated by Emma G. Moore New York and London G. P. Putnam's Sons ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright, 1894 BY ANNA FULLER The Knickerbocker Press, New York ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TO ONE TO WHOM I OWE COLORADO AND MUCH BESIDES THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PREFACE. The sketches of Colorado life which make up this volume are little more than hints and suggestions caught from time to time by a single observer in a comparatively narrow field of observation. Narrow as the field is, however, it offers a somewhat unusual diversity of scene; for that most charming of health resorts known in these pages as Springtown, is the chance centre of many varying interests. In its immediate vicinity exists the life of the prairie ranch on the one hand and that of the mining-camp on the other; while dominating all as it were--town, prairie, and mountain fastness--rises the great Peak which has now for so many years been the goal of pilgrimage to men and women from the Eastern States in pursuit of health, of fortune, or of the free, open-air life of the prairie. If, from acquaintance with these fictitious characters set in a very real environment, the reader be led to form some slight impression of the stirring little drama which is going forward to-day in that pleasant Land of Promise, he will have incidentally endorsed the claim of these disconnected sketches to be regarded as a single picture. May, 1894. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS