Download or read book Early History of Crested Butte Colorado written by Richard Daniel Aspinall and published by . This book was released on 1956* with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early History of Crested Butte written by Richard Daniel Aspinall and published by . This book was released on 1960* with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book When Coal was King written by Duane A. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crested Butte written by and published by . This book was released on 198? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of reproduced pages from other documents and publications that, in the aggregate, describe the history and natural resources of Crested Butte, Gothic, and surrounding area, including ghost towns, early mining settlements, etc. Date of release is uncertain.
Download or read book Crested Butte written by Sandy Fails and published by . This book was released on 1989-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Crested Butte Became a Tourist Town written by Roger Kahn and published by Not a Business. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How Crested Butte Became a Tourist Town," is a fun-filled social history about the evolution of a once tiny, working-class, ethnic, mining town into one of today's major destination tourist towns and recreation communities that cater to the recreation needs of both its upper-middle class visitors and residents alike. That transformation occured in the post-WWII period as our nation was moving from the industial revolution into the industrial age, and more people were "living lives of not such quiet desperation (to paraphrase Henry David Thoreau) and needed time to play and rejuvenate themselves and had more disposable income to do that. The book focuses on the early stages of that transformation, from the late 1960's to the latter part of the '70's. the days that were the most racous, wild, and conflict ridden. That was the period when new young immigrants to the town laid the foundation for what exists today, and fought with the old-timers and among themselves in order to do that. Advanced readers heaped praise on the work. One of them, the current mayor who has been a local elected official for almost 30 years said, "... tells the story of a town emerging from a domant cocoon ...its identity being pulled from divergent groups from old time miners to the counterculture radicals of the 60's ...[shows] how civilization is shaped by strong personalities..." Another one, the long time editor of the local newspaper commented, "a love story to ... Crested Butte ... [that] probably describes a number of ... outposts in the mountains of America ... in the 60s, 70s, and 80s." A professor emeritus of geography at the University of New Mexico at Los Alamos wrote, "...a detailed perspective on the transformation and evolution of community ... defines the journey that many communities ... have taken, are taking, and will take ..." The executive director of the Crested Butte Heritage Museum noted, "Drawing on extensive interviews, archival research and personal experiences, Kahn vividly describes the social forces that defined [the] 1960s and 70s in Crested Butte. ... a wild time in a wild place." Ten years in the making, this work is based on about seventy-five 2-6 hour interviews with people who were full-time residents, "locals," in the 60s and 70s, extensive and detailed readings of the two local newspapers during that era, listening and watching audio and video tapes of old-time miners, ranchers, and the new recreationists from that period, as well as other written materials about that era. Despite the sociological and other social science content of the book, it is not written in "ologese"; it is written in plain English. Enjoy the book!
Download or read book In Honor of the Centennial bicentennial the Town of Crested Butte Presents Getting it Up written by Crested Butte (Colo.) and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crested Butte written by Duane Vandenbusche and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crested Butte rises 8,885 feet above sea level on the edge of the beautiful Elk Mountains in the Gunnison Country of Colorado's Western Slope. Between Crested Butte and Aspen, 25 miles to the north, are six 14,000-foot-high peaks with 12,000-foot-high passes and scenery that takes the breath away. Crested Butte began as a silver camp but soon turned into one of the great coal towns of the West, with a rich ethnic heritage evolved from the mining camps. In the 21st century, Crested Butte is a tourist town of 1,500 residents highlighted by the Mount Crested Butte Ski Area, the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame, and its wonderful wildflower and music festivals. The town today is what it always has been, "the queen jewel of the Elk Mountains."
Download or read book Crested Butte written by Duane Vandenbusche and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crested Butte rises 8,885 feet above sea level on the edge of the beautiful Elk Mountains in the Gunnison Country of Colorados Western Slope. Between Crested Butte and Aspen, 25 miles to the north, are six 14,000-foot-high peaks with 12,000-foot-high passes and scenery that takes the breath away. Crested Butte began as a silver camp but soon turned into one of the great coal towns of the West, with a rich ethnic heritage evolved from the mining camps. In the 21st century, Crested Butte is a tourist town of 1,500 residents highlighted by the Mount Crested Butte Ski Area, the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame, and its wonderful wildflower and music festivals. The town today is what it always has been, the queen jewel of the Elk Mountains.
Download or read book Reflections on a Western Town written by Kelsey D. Wirth and published by Bookcellar. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Around Gunnison and Crested Butte written by Duane Vandenbusche and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western Slope towns of Gunnison and Crested Butte are defined by their placement in the Colorado Rockies. Both are located in alpine valleys surrounded by 14,000-foot-high peaks with sparkling mountain-fed streams, and both dominate the Gunnison country, a unique wilderness covering over 4,000 square miles. Beginning over 400 years ago, Native Americans, fur traders, explorers, miners, railroaders, and cattlemen all made a place for themselves in the area. Today Gunnison, Crested Butte, and the Gunnison country remain isolated and tranquil. Recreation, tourism, and cattle ranching now reign supreme as Gunnison and Crested Butte attempt to preserve their distinctly Western heritage.
Download or read book Crested Butte written by John L. Tezak and published by Cedar Hill Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of an area, as well as an era. The author grew up in Crested Butte, Colorado, and shares his memories of what life was like through the Depression, how his family grew, how the town was built, and the industry and way of life there. Great story-telling! Lots of humor. More than just a personal history.
Download or read book Crested Butte written by Duane A. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many old mountain mining communities, Crested Butte began life in the feverous excitement of a Colorado gold and silver mining camp, only to see the rich discoveries quickly disappear. However, unlike so many communities that became ghost towns, Crested Butte switched to mining the huge local deposits of top-quality coal. Through both good times and bad, the coal mining was carried on until the 1950s. Then Crested Butte slid quickly into ?ghost town? status, only to be revived by the ski industry in the 1960s and 1970s.Certainly the coal mining industry is an unusual partner for a Colorado ski town, but for Crested Butte, coal and skiing are inseparably intertwined. Crested Butte is the story of poor immigrants, labor strife, dirty and extremely dangerous coal mining, the D&RG Railroad, and two rich and greedy companies called the Durango Trust and Colorado Fuel and Iron. Duane Smith illustrates how such a mixture can make for an amazing tale of intrigue, joy, and sorrow. As Smith puts it: ?Americans tend to make legends out of things they want to believe. We have tended to glorify gold and silver camps, while ignoring the immigrant and company-dominated coal community.?Unlike many coal towns, Crested Butte is a true Cinderella story. She was not left to die unrecognized in her squalor. She has become a premier ski town ? the queen of the ball.
Download or read book Around Gunnison and Crested Butte written by Duane Vandenbusche and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western Slope towns of Gunnison and Crested Butte are defined by their placement in the Colorado Rockies. Both are located in alpine valleys surrounded by 14,000-foot-high peaks with sparkling mountain-fed streams, and both dominate the Gunnison country, a unique wilderness covering over 4,000 square miles. Beginning over 400 years ago, Native Americans, fur traders, explorers, miners, railroaders, and cattlemen all made a place for themselves in the area. Today Gunnison, Crested Butte, and the Gunnison country remain isolated and tranquil. Recreation, tourism, and cattle ranching now reign supreme as Gunnison and Crested Butte attempt to preserve their distinctly Western heritage.
Download or read book Law and Disorder in Crested Butte written by Hjalmar St. Pierre Sundin and published by . This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s, the isolated semi-deserted Colorado mining town of Crested Butte unwittingly became a unique sociological experiment. The opening of a ski area on nearby Mt. Crested Butte in the late 1960s attracted an influx of the "hippy" generation (mostly in their twenties), who soon outnumbered the much older resident population of about 300 (mostly retired miners and their wives), and took over the governance of the community. Despite dire predictions, Crested Butte did not go off the deep end, but its character changed dramatically to the casual free-spirited lifestyle of its new residents. There is no better insight into this mutation than in the police blotter that appeared in the weekly newspaper, laced with humor and ribaldry from the collaborative effort of the Town Marshall and the editor-owner of the newspaper - both in their twenties or early thirties. "Law & Disorder in Crested Butte" presents some of the choicer entries from 1972-1983.
Download or read book Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps written by Sandra Dallas and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the history of more than one hundred Colorado towns abandoned after the end of the mining boom
Download or read book Crested Butte Dreams written by Ann Lain and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sarah Hansen and her husband move to Spruce Haven, a ski resort twenty-five miles northwest of Crested Butte, Colorado, she hopes they will be able to rebuild a marriage that has been torn apart by deception and betrayal. Sarah finds the healing she has desired amid the grandeur of the Rockies, but she also senses that Jake is becoming increasingly distant. Complicating matters is Clint Turner, a good-natured ski patrol director who doesn't try to hide his developing attraction to Sarah. When Sarah's own feelings become impossible for her to deny, she is faced with a choice. Will she honor her commitment to the vows she made twenty-four years ago, or take a chance on mere dreams?
