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Marshall Pass, elevation , is a mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of central-southern Colorado. It lies in northern Saguache County on the Continental Divide between the Sawatch Range to the north and the Cochetopa Hills to the south. The pass is part of a backcountry alternative to U.S. Highway 50 between Salida and Gunnison. Marshall Pass was discovered by and named for Lt. William L. Marshall, of the Wheeler Survey, in 1873.〔("Lt. Marshall Discovers Marshall Pass" )〕 ==History== When William Marshall first crossed the pass, he realized that it would be a good route for a road, and shortly after this, a company was organized to build a toll road.〔Marius R. Campbell, (Guidebook of the Western United States ), United States Geological Survey Bulletin 707, Government Printing Office, 1922; page 165, see extended footnote.〕 The Marshall Pass Toll Road was completed in 1880, with stagecoach service from Gunnison to the Arkansas River where it connected with the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.〔Cleora, (Guide to Colorado ) (part of a larger publication entitled ''Where to Go to Become Rich''), Belford Clarke & Co., 1880; Page 123. This announces the opening of the toll road and stage line as imminent.〕 The new road at the pass summit was barely passable, and the grades on both sides of the pass were reported to be very steep.〔Fred M. Amelung, Lake City, Colo. Mines, (Engineering and Mining Journal ), Vol XXIX, No. 25 (June 19, 1880); page 421.〕〔G. Thomas Ingham, Chapter XX: Over Marshall Pass, (Digging Gold Among the Rockies ), Edgewood, 1882; pages 349-353 describe the stagecoach trip over the pass.〕 In 1881, the narrow gauge mainline of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad was built across Marshall Pass on the way from Denver to Salt Lake City. This railroad line was completed before the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad completed the Alpine Tunnel, so it was the first crossing of the continental divide in Colorado by any railroad. The line reached Sargents, Colorado in August 1881.〔Railway News, (Railway World ), Vol. 7, No. 33 (Aug. 13, 1881); page 784, bottom left, top right.〕 By 1884, the line was complete from Ogden, Utah to Denver.〔Anonymous, The Denver & Rio Grande Railway, (Chataqua, Historical and Descriptive ), Fairbanks, Palmer & Co., 1884; pages 183-188. Marshall Pass is discused on page 185.〕〔Route No. 45a, Denver to Salt-Lake City, (The Englishman's Guide Book to the United States and Canada ), Edward Stanford, London, 1884; pages 241-243.〕 The line saw the daily ''Shavano'' passenger train until closure. The line closed with the Gunnison Division in 1955, and the rails were removed the same year. Marshall Pass, Colorado was a small settlement, railroad station and post office, located at the pass. The population was 11 in 1948; there were six buildings then. Time Magazine called it "the U.S.'s smallest post office." 〔(Time magazine, Monday, Nov. 01, 1948 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marshall Pass」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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