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On a frosty weekend in 1939, Elizabeth “Pussy” Paepcke of Chicago was entertaining a house full of guests on her Colorado Springs ranch when a plumbing disaster required her to improvise a new itinerary. She led them all on an adventure across the mountains to a derelict mining town snuggled in a remote corner of the high Rockies. The party slept in a ramshackle lodging house, with no idea that this trip would decide the future of this now luxurious mountain retreat. The next morning,…
