Around Gunnison and Crested Butte

The Western Slope towns of Gunnison and Crested Butte are defined by their placement in the Colorado Rockies. Both are located in alpine valleys surrounded by 14,000-foot-high peaks with sparkling mountain-fed streams, and both dominate the Gunnison count

Author: Duane Vandenbusche, Gunnison Pioneer Museum, Crested Butte Mountain Heritage Museum
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: 01/02/2008
Pages: 127
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.23h x 6.59w x 0.35d
ISBN: 9780738548289

About the Author
Vandenbusche, Duane: - Author Duane Vandenbusche has been a professor of history at Western State College in Gunnison since 1962 and is the author of five books on the Gunnison country and western Colorado. He has also doubled as cross-country coach at the college, where his men s and women s teams have won 12 national championships. In this volume, photographs from the Gunnison Pioneer Museum and the Crested Butte Mountain Heritage Museum many of them previously unpublished bring the history of Gunnison, Crested Butte, and the surrounding area alive.