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Author: Douglas N. Beck Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439652198 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
Until 1879, the Roaring Fork Valley was home to a band of Colorado Ute Indians. All of that changed in the summer and fall of that year, when two prospecting teams came to the valley to stake their claims, some of which went on to produce millions of dollars of silver. Within five years, Aspen was home to over 20,000 individuals including miners, lawyers, families, businessmen, and even prostitutes. Aspen's fortune was tied to silver. More importantly, its fate was ultimately tied to the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890, which required the US government to buy 4.5 million ounces of silver per month. From 1890 to 1893, the Sherman Act kept Aspen alive and growing. With the repeal of the act, Aspen began a slow, painful decline. This book covers the years of Aspen's discovery, through the years of decline, and into what is known as the "Quiet Years."
Author: Douglas N. Beck Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439652198 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
Until 1879, the Roaring Fork Valley was home to a band of Colorado Ute Indians. All of that changed in the summer and fall of that year, when two prospecting teams came to the valley to stake their claims, some of which went on to produce millions of dollars of silver. Within five years, Aspen was home to over 20,000 individuals including miners, lawyers, families, businessmen, and even prostitutes. Aspen's fortune was tied to silver. More importantly, its fate was ultimately tied to the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890, which required the US government to buy 4.5 million ounces of silver per month. From 1890 to 1893, the Sherman Act kept Aspen alive and growing. With the repeal of the act, Aspen began a slow, painful decline. This book covers the years of Aspen's discovery, through the years of decline, and into what is known as the "Quiet Years."
Author: Douglas N. Beck Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1467133183 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
Until 1879, the Roaring Fork Valley was home to a band of Colorado Ute Indians. All of that changed in the summer and fall of that year, when two prospecting teams came to the valley to stake their claims, some of which went on to produce millions of dollars of silver. Within five years, Aspen was home to over 20,000 individuals including miners, lawyers, families, businessmen, and even prostitutes. Aspen's fortune was tied to silver. More importantly, its fate was ultimately tied to the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890, which required the US government to buy 4.5 million ounces of silver per month. From 1890 to 1893, the Sherman Act kept Aspen alive and growing. With the repeal of the act, Aspen began a slow, painful decline. This book covers the years of Aspen's discovery, through the years of decline, and into what is known as the "Quiet Years."
Author: Malcolm J. Rohrbough Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 310
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Now a world-famous ski resort, Aspen, Colorado, began its life as a booming silver-mining town. This book tells the story of Aspen from its founding in 1879 to the collapse of the silver market in 1893. It is replete with colorful portraits of the pioneers who built and developed the town that became the richest silver-mining center in America.
Author: John Moore Publisher: Harthaven Press ISBN: 9780996445467 Category : Languages : en Pages : 248
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Aspen Highlands is an extraordinary ski area whose story has never been adequately told. Its founder and owner for 35 years was Whipple Van Ness Jones, known as Whip. He was an imaginative, tough businessman and entrepreneur. The skiing public is fortunate that he had the vision (and money) to develop one of the most challenging and scenic ski venues in the United States.
Author: Lisa Sun-Hee Park Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 0814768040 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 287
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Offering a new understanding of low-wage immigrants (mostly from Latin America) who have become the foundation for service and leisure work in a famous resort, and of the recent history of the ski industry, Park and Pellow expose the ways in which Colorado boosters have reshaped the landscape and ecosystems in the pursuit of profit.
Author: Ann Zwinger Publisher: Big Earth Publishing ISBN: 9781555662790 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 396
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The Colorado Rockies are Ann Zwinger's subject in prose and drawing. There, 8,300 feet above sea level, summer is short and winter long and often harsh; it is a place where much of life exists on the margin. In good years the grasses are lush; in bad years, even the mice starve. But it is a land the Zwingers have lovingly explored and recorded, careful not to disrupt the balance of the land, the relationship of plant to animal and of each to its environment.These forty acres, called Constant Friendship after the Maryland land her ancestor settled in the early 1730s, are a place of all seasons, for even in winter there is a promise of spring, and in spring the foretaste of summer. The white of snow becomes the white of summer clouds, the resonant green of spruce becomes the green head of drake mallard ... here part of each season is contained in every other.In beautiful and simple language and with 80 illustrations, Beyond the Aspen Grove tells of meadow, lake, marsh and forest, of algae and dragonflies, of deer and jays that live in the thin clear air of the mountain world.
Author: Diana Tremain Braund Publisher: Bella Books ISBN: 1594939209 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 330
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Aspen Brown lives in the Maine town of Codyville Plantation. Her life of teaching and trying to save the environment has been most fulfilling...until Leigh Wright comes along and turns her world upside down. Leigh is a forester who arrives in Codyville Planation with a new venture that would mean the economic salvation for this tiny Maine town. But it could also threaten the very being of Aspen—who finds trees to be a lot better company than people. Sparks fly between the two women until both are forced to make a most difficult choice. Will Aspen choose the woman she loves...or the forest she hopes to preserve...
Author: Jenny Stuber Publisher: University of California Press ISBN: 0520306600 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 303
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How is it possible for a town to exist where the median household income is about $73,000, but the median home price is about $4,000,000? Boring into the "impossible" math of Aspen, Colorado, Stuber explores how middle-class people have found a way to live in this supergentrified town. Interviewing a range of residents, policymakers, and officials, Stuber shows that what resolves the math equation between incomes and home values in Aspen, Colorado—the X-factor that makes middle-class life possible—is the careful orchestration of diverse class interests within local politics and the community. She explores how this is achieved through a highly regulatory and extractive land use code that provides symbolic and material value to highly affluent investors and part-year residents, as well as less-affluent locals, many of whom benefit from an array of subsidies—including an extensive affordable housing program—that redistribute economic resources in ways that make it possible for middle-class residents to live there. Stuber further examines how Latinos, who provide much of the service work in Aspen and who tend to live outside the town, fit into the social geography of one of the most unequal places in the country. Overall, Stuber argues that the Aspen's ability to balance the interests of its diverse class constituencies is not a foregone conclusion; rather, it is the result of efforts by local stakeholders—citizens, government, developers, and vacationers—to preserve the town’s unique feel and value, and "keep Aspen, Aspen" in all its complex dynamics.
Author: Douglas N. Beck
Author: Douglas N. Beck
Author: Douglas N. Beck
Author: Malcolm J. Rohrbough
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Author: Lisa Sun-Hee Park
Author: Ann Zwinger
Author: Diana Tremain Braund
Author: Jenny Stuber