Image of the Month: April 2013

Sneffels Range 1940 by Russell Lee, Courtesy Library of Congress

Sneffels Range 1940 by Russell Lee, Courtesy Library of Congress

Sneffels Range by Joshua Hardin

Sneffels Range by Joshua Hardin

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