Taking the High Road- Leadville to Vail in 100 Years

Travel thirty miles of Colorado mountain highway US24 from Leadville to Vail covering a 100 year period. In Leadville we begin in the 1870s with the Colorado Silver Boom and early mining history chronicling notable characters such as Doc Holliday, Horace Tabor, Wyatt Earp, Unsinkable Mollie Brown and others. We visit county seat Red Cliff, the Gilman mining district and railroad town of Minturn. We also touch upon Camp Hale, training site for the 10th Mountain Division which fought in WWII. Finally, we end up at Vail Ski Resort of the 1970s, said to have been during their “glory years”. This writer actually went to high school and grew up in this same area over forty years ago which adds to the unique historical narrative.