Steamboat Springs

Title: Steamboat Springs
Author: David H Ellis
E: 1701410
ISBN: 9780738570174
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2009
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Illustrated
Number of Pages: 128
Section: History | United States | State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Publisher Description: Known as Ski Town, U.S.A., for its deep powder and its growing crop of winter Olympians, Steamboat Springs was named nearly two centuries ago by French trappers. Hearing the "chug, chug" of one of many hot springs, they supposed they had reached navigable waters. For centuries, the area's abundant fish, game, and mineral springs drew the Yampatika, a Ute subtribe. In the 1870s, a rush of settlers came, first for precious metals, followed by more renewable riches--the lush summer pastures--and next the extraction of carbonized forests (coal) millions of years old. Ironically, real wealth ultimately fell free from leaden winter skies, and this Routt County community experienced a boom like few places on earth. Winter sports, including ski jumping, with some world records, made Steamboat Springs famous worldwide.