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With 3.3 million visitors each year, many unexpected things occur in thisphenomenal park -- floods, cougar attacks and brave rescues -- in addition to achievements such as the building of the highest paved road in the world. Zusammenfassung From the earliest climb up towering Longs Peak by John Wesley Powell to the task of building Trail Ridge Road, the highest paved highway in the world, It Happened in Rocky Mountain National Park includes twenty-five events that have shaped , one of the most popular national parks in the country. (1) First Recorded Ascent of Longs Peak (2) The Mountain Man and the English Lady (3) Lamb's Slide (4) Artists in the Park (5) Murder in Grand Lake (6) A City Called Lulu (7) Deadly Ambush in Grand Lake (8) Digging the Grand Ditch (9) F.O. Stanley, Under Sentence of Death (10) To Kill or Not to Kill, That is the Question (11) What's In a Name? (12) Enos Mills, Father of Rocky Mountain National Park (13) Modern Eve (14) Agnes Vaille, Deadly Attempt (15) Building Trail Ridge Road (16) The CCC in Rocky Mountain National Park (17) Alva Adams Tunnel: Seven-Sixteenths of an Inch (18) Rescue on Hallett Peak (19) Race for the Diamond (20) The Elusive Greenback Cutthroat Trout (21) Big Thompson Flood (22) Fire in Wild Basin (23) The Lawn Lake Dam Bursts (24) Samson, the Elk, Killed by Poacher (25) Death by Cougar (26) Electric Skies of Summer (27) Bear Attack! (28) Death of a Park Ranger (29) Lost and Found (30) Moose Attack! ...
