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Colorado Springs is the second-largest city in
Colorado, after Denver. It is the seat of El Paso County, making
up about three-quarters of the county's population. It is located
on the edge of the Rocky Mountains, with Pikes Peak (14,110
ft) towering beside it to the west. To the east begin the Great
Plains.
The city was founded in 1871. Gen. William Jackson Palmer, a
Pennsylvania-born Civil War veteran, came across the scenic
spot in his railroad travels and was inspired to begin a new
resort community there. The subsequent development of Colorado
Springs was influenced in part by an influx of English tourists
later in the 1870s and by the discovery of gold in nearby Cripple
Creek in the 1890s. Millionaire businessmen and philanthropists,
such as Spencer Penrose, Charles Tutt, and Winfield Scott Stratton,
helped to establish the city's infrastructure and shape its
popularity as a tourist destination.
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