Who Put the “Elbert” in Mount Elbert?
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on September 9, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. “Elbert” is just a guy. Just some guy, who happens to be the namesake of Colorado’s highest Fourteener, all 14,440 feet of…