Susan Dalton’s latest book about Colorado mountain towns, *Aspen Journey - Past to Present*, tells the story of the transformation of a pure and pristine valley into a 21st-century mecca for culture and powder skiing.

The book is a beautiful assortment of stories, antique prints, historical photos, old paper memorabilia, and vintage postcards (which can be removed and mailed!), illustrating this metamorphosis. These stories belong to daring prospectors, brave business entrepreneurs, and ordinary people who wanted to call Aspen "home." They arrived during the mining boom but stayed to sustain Aspen through The Quiet Years. Skiing was how the prospectors and miners got around in the snow. Skiing later became a recreation for a small, isolated community blessed with powder snow and soaring mountain peaks. As time progressed, skiing became Aspen's golden future of prosperity. There were always believers in Aspen's future as a ski destination; it finally became a reality when Walter and Elizabeth Paepcke and their partners created the Aspen Skiing Company in 1946. The Paepckes developed Aspen into a summer cultural haven as well.

Susan’s previous book, *Telluride: A Silver Past, a Golden Future*, continues to be popular among visitors to the Western Slope.

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