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If you live in certain parts of Colorado, it's pretty hard to escape the name "Gore." I lived in the town of Kremmling for four years, just east of the Gore Range. Eastbound trains emerged from Gore Canyon, perhaps the toughest stretch of Whitewater in America. The jagged peaks of the Gore-Eagles Nest Wilderness Area dominated the horizon to the southwest. And if you needed to go to Toponas or Oak Creek (which in those days had a lively tavern called the Colorado Bar), you drove over 9,527-foot Gore Pass.
Changing the name would be difficult, if not impossible, however. It would require revising maps and rechristening everything from the Gore Range Baptist Church in Kremmling to the Gore Creek Gallery in Vail. So [Jeff Mitton] has a better idea: Keep the name, but change the namesake. Reinterpret Gore "to honor an environmentalist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize," i.e., former Vice President Al Gore. Then all you'd have to change would be the plaque.From a military standpoint, his later career hardly merits his prominence on our maps. He managed to get his immediate command wiped out at Little Bighorn on June 26, 1876. That's about as serious as failure can get on a battlefield. Ulysses S. Grant, who knew something about warfare, said he regarded "[George Armstrong Custer]'s massacre as a sacrifice of troops, brought on by Custer himself, that was wholly unnecessary."See the full content of this document
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The Easy Way to Purify Our Geography
If you live in certain parts of Colorado, it's pretty hard to escape the name "Gore." I lived in the town of Kremmling for four years, just east of the Gore Range. Eastbound trains emerged from Gore Canyon, perhaps the toughest stretch of Whitewater in America. The jagged ...
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