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Definition of Mount Elbert
1. Noun. The highest peak in the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado (14,431 feet high).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mount Elbert
Literary usage of Mount Elbert
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... Grizzly Peak, 13786) and Mount Elbert, 14.150; and six miles from Mount Elbert,
Massive Mountain, 14192. For about eighteen miles north of this last ..."
2. Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado by Thomas Conrad Porter, John Merle Coulter (1874)
"Var. PULLATA, Anders. Leaves smoother, glaucous beneath.—Ute Pass and South Park,
Porter. Mount Elbert near Twin Lakes, at 12000 feet altitude, ..."
3. My Mountains by Roselle Theodore Cross (1921)
"One day a man and two ladies, not of our party, climbed Mount Elbert. ... Just as
the sun was going down behind Mount Elbert, we gathered for ..."
4. Our Western Empire by Linus Pierpont Brockett (1882)
"... these are : Mount Antero, Mount Elbert, Mount Harvard, Holy Cross Mountain,
La Plata, Massive Mountain, Mount Princeton, Shavano and Mount Yale, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... Grizzly Peak, 13786) and Mount Elbert, 14.150; and six miles from Mount Elbert,
Massive Mountain, 14192. For about eighteen miles north of this last ..."
6. Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado by Thomas Conrad Porter, John Merle Coulter (1874)
"Var. PULLATA, Anders. Leaves smoother, glaucous beneath.—Ute Pass and South Park,
Porter. Mount Elbert near Twin Lakes, at 12000 feet altitude, ..."
7. My Mountains by Roselle Theodore Cross (1921)
"One day a man and two ladies, not of our party, climbed Mount Elbert. ... Just as
the sun was going down behind Mount Elbert, we gathered for ..."
8. Our Western Empire by Linus Pierpont Brockett (1882)
"... these are : Mount Antero, Mount Elbert, Mount Harvard, Holy Cross Mountain,
La Plata, Massive Mountain, Mount Princeton, Shavano and Mount Yale, ..."
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