Author Duane Vandenbusche has been a professor of history at Western State College for 51 years. He is the author of nine books on the Gunnison Country and Western Colorado, including Arcadia Publishing's Around Monarch Pass and Crested Butte. He was the cross-country running coach for men and women at the college until 2007, and his teams won 12 national championships and produced three Olympians. The photographs in this book were gathered from libraries, museums, private collections, and old-timers.