Article: MOUNTAINS MAJESTIC ROCKIES ARE COLORADANS' COMMON GROUND, THE TIE THAT BINDS.(Special Pullouts)

Byline: Lisa Levitt Ryckman News Staff Writer

A state divided within itself meets high in the Rocky Mountains, at the place where the rivers run west down one side and east down the other.

This is Colorado's common ground - some of the most uncommon ground in the world.

``The shadows of the Rockies which fall across the Front Range every evening are more than a picturesque backdrop to our daily routine,'' former Denver Archbishop J. Francis Stafford writes. ``They are the shadows of heaven itself.''

The plains and the plateau come together at the Continental Divide, the backbone of a mountain range that runs from Canada to Mexico but ...

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