Album caption and index card: A panoramic view from Sultan Mountain. View sweeps the entire horizon from the center of the San Juan Mountains, the most rugged mass of mountain peaks of the whole Rocky Mountain Range. View west from Sultan Mountain. San Juan County, Colorado. 1874. (Panorama with photo nos. 486 - 488, jwh00486, jwh00487, jwh00488)
Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1874 Series, page 69, Nos. 141, 142, 143, 144: A panoramic view from Sultan Mountain. The above four numbers, with No. 140, sweep the entire horizon from the center of the San Juan Mountains, the most rugged mass of mountain-peaks of the whole Rocky Mountain range. The first of the above series looks northwesterly into the mass of high peaks about theheads of the Mineral and Cement Creeks; a solid mass of volcanic flow, with just a slight outcropping of sedimentary rock in lower left-hand corner. The next viewm nearly south, shows quite an extended surface of sand and limestones capped with trachyte. No. 143 carries the view around to the southeast, where the mountains gradually fall away to the Animas Valley, forty miles below. No. 144 looks into a great mass east side of the Animas. The most prominent peaks of the group are upward of 14,000 feet in height, and most of them perfectly inaccessible.
