NEWS: Cumberlands More Beautiful Than the Rockies - 1922 Date: Monday, July 14, 2003 9:05 PM Submitted by Mary Lou Hudson *************************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *************************************************************************** Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, KY Nov. 22, 1922 Say Cumberlands More Beautiful Than The Rockies Mr. and Mrs. William Cooper of Colorado stopped in Middlesboro today on a motor trip through to Florida to spend the winter. They have made the trip from Colorado in ten days, sleeping out of doors at night. They say the roads were splendid until they got about to Danville, Ky., and that they were rougher from there. The Coopers were enthusiastic about this section of the country and Mrs. Cooper said she considered the mountain scenery around Williamsburg more beautiful, abstractly speaking, than that of the Rockies. She thinks the drive from Frankfort to Williamsburg is every bit as impressive as the famed drive into Estes Park in Colorado. They suggested that a tourist camp here would be a great help in bringing travelers this way, and told of many of the splendid camping grounds further north, mentioning the one at Galesburg, Ill., as the finest. Mr. Cooper took a parting shot at our East End street as he was leaving, but in general, they had nothing but praise for Middlesboro.