Talk:San Juan Mountains

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I appreciate the Start-Class rating. I found so little basic information here I wondered if it was a stub. There's no map. There's no description of the San Juan's role in either the overall Rockies or in the Colorado Rockies. I came hoping to find some presentation of the layout of the range, some notion of how to approach it as a tourist, some discussion of the towns in it, some mention of its geology. Nada, nothing. Just sort of a chamber of commerce discussion of how they made money in the San Juans in mining in times past, and how they're making it with tourism now. Once again, when Wiki is good it tends to be solidly good. When it's bad, it tends to be solidly bad. And you can never tell which to expect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.29.205.41 (talk) 22:50, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

History forgotten?[edit]

Doesn't appear to have gotten much better in 7 years. Amusingly, the section 'History of the Area' begins in 1903. One might conclude that it either magically appeared, or something's missing. One something can be spotted in the article Ute Mountain Ute Tribe:

In 1873 the gold and silver rush occurred in San Juan Mountains; the Utes cede the San Juan mining area to the United States, it is one-fourth of their remaining lands.... Between 1859 and 1879 the Ute population fell from 8,000 to 2,000 due to disease and diminished hunting grounds.

Possibly that explains overlooking history prior to the organization of the 36 mining companies. There's a slight hint in the Fort Garland article.

Some of the story of the goldrush can be found in this article. There we can learn that

In addition to being the home of the Ute Indians for hundreds of years, the mountains intrigued Spaniards, lured the prospectors of the Colorado Gold Rush, and attracted thousands of vacationers and seekers of outdoor adventure.... Among the first results of the renewed interest in the San Juans was conflict with the Utes, who had been guaranteed the land in the Treaty of 1868.

So somebody somewhere -does- remember, after all. But not WP. Twang (talk) 02:59, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong link[edit]

The link to #24 Sawtooth Mountain Sawtooth_Mountain points to one in Washington state.

EDIT needed: Wetterhorn, Sunlight, and Windom are all 14ers that are not included on the last. So, other mountains that should be in list are also likely missing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.53.244.162 (talk) 15:44, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]