Back in Time: Aspen
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“(Kit) Carson’s popular stage line brought to Aspen on Thursday evening eleven passengers,” announced the Rocky Mountain Sun on Feb. 25, 1882.
“Part of these belonged to the line of Rockwell and Bicknell, whose stage broke down at Twin Lakes. Mr. Carson generously invited the passengers to jump aboard his sleighs and take a free ride to our camp, which the passengers gladly accepted, and they arrived in Aspen at an early hour Thursday evening. The Carson line now makes the trip from Leadville to Aspen in one day, and a ride with this carefully managed and efficiently equipped line is both safe and pleasant.”
“Back in Time” is contributed by 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.
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