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The of Iowa and Nebraska turned into desert brown western Nebraska and eastern Colorado where j I forked onto I-76 to Denver. Soon the tops of the Rockies began to peak on the horizon. I took 34 on I-76 and was quickly welcomed by the stock yards fragrant, dairy farms and hog farms that have preceded Greeley-Loveland, where I spent several days eating and laughing with milk men, friends, contractors, and others related to agriculture. Greeley is midway between Denver and Cheyenne, Wyoming, and is about 50 miles NNE of the Mile High City. Greeley was named in honor of the legendary reformer Horace Greeley, who was the founder and the largest publisher of his era of most influential newspapers in the United States from 1840 to 1870, the New York Tribune. The Tribune had high moral standards, good taste, and intellectual appeal. It also prevented the scandals of its pages. Greeley is a curious character with many extreme views both socially and politically. For example, he was fascinated by utopian socialism, and vegetarianism. alsoone But it was the most influential Americans of the 1800s. It promoted the Whig party and was a founder of the newly formed Republican party in 1856. He opposed slavery, but initially resisted the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. He became the Liberal Republican Party candidate in the presidential election 1872. But her friends turned on him. He was ridiculed and mocked by a violent campaign, his wife died just six days before the general election Nov. 5, and he lost in a landslide to Ulysses S. Grant, the conqueror of the General Union during the Civil War. All this took a terrible toll on him to be in poor health. He was committed in a mental institution and died November 29, 1872 at age 61. It is the only presidential candidate died before the election ballots were counted. Greeley is represented in the film Gangs of New York.

Though it snowed today in Reno, it had reached 80 degrees 6 weeks ago. I should point out that the mediterranean climate-mountainous west, (and probably the European's version, the alps), have looser seasons than eastern continental locations at lower elevations. In the intermountain west cities including Reno it is not uncommon at all to see irregular snowfall distribution, or snowfall occur early or especially late in the season. People forget that and seem to predictably be surprised when the snow flies in May, but spending 15 years here I can tell you that it almost always snows in april regularly, and May, June, or September flurries happen probably once or twice every couple years. This has to frustrate Interior Western Agriculture due to the lack of predictability of the last or first frost but it seems that fall is usually warmer than spring. This erratic seasonal behavior can happen anywhere but living on the East Coast it seems the climate there is more predictable and stable, their seasons are more defined. Even in places that get alot of snow, their snow is usually confined to actual wintertime.

By nightfall the slopes were illuminated, creating a mystical aura. Snow tubing looked like a hoot but I chose to watch, pretending I was a parent observing my kids. A late evening walk took me by cute rental cottages with icicles dangling from the roofs.