Mosquito Range, Colorado

39°15′N, 106°10′W

Central Colorado — north-south range between the Arkansas and South Platte drainages

[from the public record]

39.2500, -106.1667 · view on OpenStreetMap →

What's documented

The Mosquito Range is a mountain range of the southern Rocky Mountains in central Colorado, running roughly 50 miles north-south between the Arkansas River drainage to the west and the South Platte to the east. Its highest peak, Mount Lincoln, reaches 4,353 m. Leadville, the historic silver- and lead-mining town, sits at the range's western base; the Leadville Herald Democrat newspaper has published continuously since 1879.

Notable & intriguing

Mount Lincoln (4,353 m) and Mount Bross (4,322 m) are among Colorado’s “fourteeners.” At 3,094 m, Leadville at the range’s western base is the highest incorporated city in the United States.

USGS; Leadville municipal records.
The range hosts the headwaters of the Arkansas River. Climax Mine on Bartlett Mountain has been the world’s largest molybdenum producer for much of its operating history (1918–present, with suspensions).

Colorado Geological Survey, Mineral Resources of Colorado, rev. 2009.
The Leadville Herald Democrat — continuously published since 1879 — ran a series of locally-sourced “bright lights over the Mosquito Range” items in September and October 1967, part of the 1965–67 western-U.S. sighting wave. The original clippings are held by the Lake County Public Library.

Leadville Herald Democrat, Sept–Oct 1967; Lake County Library archives.

Public-record items already documented about this subject. Folklore is labelled. Sources cited where the specificity warrants it.

Public-record imagery

The Mosquito Range looking west from South Park, Colorado. Wikipedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Ken Lund · 2013

The Mosquito Range above South Park, Colorado — Mount Bross, Mount Lincoln, and Mount Democrat clustered together above 14,000 feet. Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · 2013

Mount Sherman and the spine of the Mosquito Range. Old silver mines tunnel through the entire massif; many were never sealed. Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · David Herrera from Albuquerque, NM, Bernalillo · 2009

Gemini Peak in the Mosquito Range. The high basins drain into Fairplay, where 19th-century gold panners reported odd lights on the ridgeline at dusk. Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · John Sowell · 2015

Referenced in the codex

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