Back in Time | Aspen

“Back in Time” is contributed by the Aspen Historical Society and features excerpted articles and images from past Snowmass Sun/Aspen Times issues. We can’t rewrite history, but we can learn from it! Visit archiveaspen.org to view the vast Aspen Times photographic collection in the AHS Archives.

“The extent to which the people of Aspen own their own milk cows is not generally known,” noted the Aspen Daily News on June 13, 1889.

“The pasturage is so good on the borders of the city that it costs very little to keep a cow. One herder alone takes care of 120 cows, another has about half as many, and a third has a score or more that they drive to pasture every morning and back home every evening. The healthy appearance of the younger children in Aspen has been favorably commented upon by visitors, and the number of the meek-eyed, long-tailed kine kept by private families may have something to do with it. A lady of this city is writing a book called ‘The Comforts of a Cow,’ and as she already has some reputation as a magazine contributor, an interesting work may be looked for.”

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