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==Colorado pioneer==

==Colorado pioneer==

Because Dyer feared the possible loss of his vision, he was determined to see [[Pike's Peak]] and the [[Rocky Mountains]] while he could. He made it to [[Omaha]], [[Nebraska]], when his horse could no longer carry him. and then walked with a wagon trai] the six hundred remaining miles to Denver. There he was briefly reunited with his second son, Elias Foster Dyer, who had left Minnesota the previous year to take a job as a store clerk.<ref name=jfagan/><ref name=dyertimetable>{{cite web|url=http://oakdene.org/OgGateWeb/foster/dyer/dyer.htm|title=Father John Lewis Dyer|publisher=oakdene.org|accessdate=January 19, 2014}}</ref>

Because Dyer feared the possible loss of his vision, he was determined to see Pike's Peak and the [[Rocky Mountains]] while he could. He made it to [[Omaha]], [[Nebraska]], when his horse could no longer carry him. and then walked with a wagon trai] the six hundred remaining miles to Denver. There he was briefly reunited with his second son, Elias Foster Dyer, who had left Minnesota the previous year to take a job as a store clerk.<ref name=jfagan/><ref name=dyertimetable>{{cite web|url=http://oakdene.org/OgGateWeb/foster/dyer/dyer.htm|title=Father John Lewis Dyer|publisher=oakdene.org|accessdate=January 19, 2014}}</ref>

   

   

Dyer then walked another hundred miles to Buckskin Joe, a mining camp near Alma and Fairplay, Colorado, both in Park County. Having lost thirty pounds on his travels west,<ref name=tbio/> Dyer showed renewed energy in preaching in the mining camps from South Park to the Continental Divide, the point where the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] and [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] waters separate east and west. In his [[autobiography]], Dyer referred to South Park as "a view of grandeur never to be forgotten."<ref name=vandusen>Laura King Van Dusen, ''Historic Tales from Park County: Parked in the Past'' ([[Charleston]], [[South Carolina]]: The History Press, 2013), ISBN 978-1-62619-161-7, pp. 32-33, 102.</ref>

Dyer then walked another hundred miles to Buckskin Joe, a mining camp near Alma and Fairplay, Colorado, both in Park County. Having lost thirty pounds on his travels west,<ref name=tbio/> Dyer showed renewed energy in preaching in the mining camps from South Park to the Continental Divide, the point where the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] and [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] waters separate east and west. In his [[autobiography]], Dyer referred to South Park as "a view of grandeur never to be forgotten."<ref name=vandusen>Laura King Van Dusen, ''Historic Tales from Park County: Parked in the Past'' ([[Charleston]], [[South Carolina]]: The History Press, 2013), ISBN 978-1-62619-161-7, pp. 32-33, 102.</ref>