Land Ownership in Middle Park, Colorado

basins, or parks to give them their local name, are the only areas between the plains to the east and the plateau country to the west which contain any important and continuous populations and any considerable proportion of privately-owned land (Figure 1). These parks had their settlement beginnings in the days of the expansion of cattle ranching throughout the western grasslands and the form and characteristics of the land ownership patterns in them are traceable to these beginnings. In Middle Park and in North Park the

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