has always reta d the name. This (C) was surveyed, maAQ on the map and mentioned, by the Land Office Survey of 1883. The Land Office also resurveyed the Baca Grant in 1892. On this new map the present Kit Carson (B) was still called Trois Tetons, although in the field notes, con- trary to the map, the highest of its three summits is called Crestone, probably due to local opinion. The people of the town of Crestone call the present Kit Carson (B) "Crestone", because it is more conspicuous than the higher peak. This has confused climbers approaching from the San Luis valley. In the notes to the Survey of 1892, the present Crestone and Crestone Needle are called the N.W. and S.E. Spannish Craggs. They are, as I have said, off the map, but the names were noticed by Mr. Albert Ellingwood when he and I were examining the field notes; and by using the compass bearings given them from different stations, I located the peaks, on the map, as A and D. This region has not been mapped by the U. S. G. S., but in 1906 Henry Gannett in the Gazeteer of Colorado,'' defines the peaks as follows:- 1. Crestone, peaks in the Sangre de Cristo Range, Saguache County, alti- tude 14,233 feet. 2. Kit Carson, peak in the Sangre . Cristo Range on boundary between Custer and Saguache Counties, We 14,100 feet. 4^U. S G _S. _Bulletin 291.- I¢o -'t 1q=2a [From: Hart, John Lathrop Jerome: "Fourteen Thousand Feet: a history of the naming and early ascents of the high Colorado peaks." Denver, Colorado Mountain Club, 1925]
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