Park City, Utah, will host the International Winter Olympics in 2002. For the present it is the United States Ski Team's headquarters, annual host of the North American World Ski Cup Opening, and home to Robert Redford's international Sundance Film Festival.One of the largest silver boomtowns of the 1870s, this is where the likes of George Hearst and Butch Cassidy made their marks. For fifty years the town brimmed with immigrant miners, union activists, hustlers, and opportunists who left a legacy of instability.Historic sites constitute touchstones in Park City Underfoot. Main Street's old saloons and brothels, Park Avenue's churches, Empire Canyon's mine ruins, and lower town's lodges and speakeasies form picturesque backdrops for the accompanying text. The city's heritage comes alive in each of these walking and bicycling tours.As a mining settlement where families were rare, the city's gritty past outshines most Western sites for its trove of colorful tales. The present ski and entertainment industries continue a tradition of glamour and scandal. This is accentuated in the book by the author's many anecdotes about the contemporary scene. -- amazon.com
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