About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Aspen, Colorado, Snowmass Village, Colorado, Basalt, Colorado, National Register of Historic Places listings in Pitkin County, Colorado, Winter X Games XII, USS Pitkin County, 2001 Avjet Aspen crash, Roaring Fork Valley, Aspen Shrines, Redstone, Colorado, Woody Creek, Colorado, Ashcroft, Colorado, Winter X Games IX, Aspen Highlands, Aspen Mountain, Snowmass, Colorado, Aspen Times, Meredith, Colorado, Collegiate Peaks Wilderness, Maroon Bells, Castle Peak, Mount Sopris, Snowmass Mountain, Pyramid Peak, Grizzly Peak, Maroon Creek Bridge, Colorado State Highway 82, Capitol Peak, Roaring Fork River, Crystal River, White River National Forest, Independence Pass, Fryingpan River, Hala Ranch, Holland & Hart, Ruedi Reservoir, McClure Pass, Busk-Ivanhoe Tunnel, Aspen Extreme, Snowmass Peak, Hagerman Pass, St. Benedict's Monastery, Hagerman Tunnel, Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness, KASP-LP, Crater Lake, Aspen/Snowmass, Hunter-Fryingpan Wilderness, Aspen Daily News, Lenado, Colorado, Norrie, Colorado. Excerpt: The City of Aspen is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the city population was 5,804 in 2005. Founded as a mining camp in the Colorado Silver Boom and named because of the abundance of aspen trees in the area, the city is now a ski resort and an upscale tourist center. In the late 20th century the city developed as a popular destination for celebrities, attracting people like Charlie Sheen, Hunter S. Thompson, and John Denver, the latter having written several songs about the town, including "Aspenglow" and "Starwood in Aspen." Aspen Lumber Company, 1882The city's roots are traced to the winter of 1879, when a group of miners ignored pleas by Frederick Pitkin, governor of Colorado, to return...
