Rangeland / The Hayden Surveys - Routt County, CO - Colorado Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

This Colorado history marker has two panels. One is the Range Lands and the other is The Hayden Surveys. The panels are still is good condition and readable. These are the older style panels that are made of fiberglass. Surprisingly you can still read these, normally the suns exposure makes them nonreadable.

The panels read:

FARRINGTON R. CARPENTER
MAVERICK RANCHER
(1886 - 1980)
In 1934 President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Franklin R. Carpenter the first Director of the Division of Grazing, a federal agency created by the Taylor Grazing act. True to his maverick ways, Carpenter bluntly stated the act’s driving purpose. He said it was “for the proper use of lands.” educated at Princeton and Harvard Law School, Carpenter established a ranch about ten miles east of here in 1926. As a district attorney for Routt, Moffat and grand counties-an area larger than Massachusetts - he prosecuted cattle rustlers and kidnappers, and when armed sheepmen lined up against cattlemen, he negotiated a cease-fire. But ranching always came first. Today, Nature Conservancy’s Carpenter Ranch stands as a living testament to this maverick rancher’s love of land, cattle and the American west.

FERDINAND VANDEVEER HAYDEN
(1829-1887)
Between 1859 and 1876, geologist Ferdinand V. Hayden explored privately and for the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the territories. His expeditions surveyed nearly all of Colorado, producing accurate maps and atlases, fossils for scientific study, and names of mountains (many of which he climbed), rivers, and geological formations. World-famed artist Thomas Moran accompanied him, as did pioneering photographer William H. Jackson, who took the first images of the Mount of the Holy Cross and Mesa Verde cliff dwellings. While on a surveying expedition here in the Yampa River Valley, Hayden’s party camped near present day Hayden, Colorado.

James Terry Gardiner, a member of Hayden’s 1874 Colorado Survey Expedition, described his experience: “Think of my climbing seven great peaks in nine days. Three of these ascents were over 14,000feet. For these climbs we rise between three and four in the morning and breakfast by candle light, sitting on the ground in the frosty air with a few coals under our tin plates and cups to keep our food and drink from freezing. “Anna E. Dickinson, who met Hayden and his survey party in Colorado in 1873, wrote of the expedition’s work: “I looked at him, and all the little party, with ardent curiosity and admiration, braving rain, snow, sleet, hail, hunger, thirst, exposure, bitter nights, snowyclimbs, dangers of death for his sake no of the so-called great cause, nor in hot blood, but with patience and unwearled energy for a

Group or Groups Responsible for Placement: Colorado Department of Transportation County or City: Routt County Date Dedicated: Not listed Check here for Web link(s) for additional information: Not listed

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