Crested Butte: A Novel
When Vini stepped off the first train into Crested Butte, Colorado, she was jolted out of the naivete of her seventeen years and into the world of coal barons and bankers, dreamers and dancers. Turmoil and twists of fate shake her to her core and ultimately pit her against one of the most powerful men in the country. Marilyn Brown Oden is the award winning author of seven previous books. All of her books tug deeply into the human heart.
- Published
- 2001
- ISBN
- 1-890437-55-7
- Pages
- 276
- Place
- Crested Butte
- Publisher
- Western Reflections Pub.
- Listed at
- $12.95
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About this book
Crested Butte: A Novel is historical fiction by Marilyn Brown Oden. Its heroine is Vini, who steps off the first train into Crested Butte, Colorado at seventeen. The description says she is jolted out of her naivete and into a world of coal barons and bankers, dreamers and dancers.
Turmoil and twists of fate shake her to her core, and the description says they ultimately pit her against one of the most powerful men in town. Our catalogue lists the subjects as fiction and women pioneers, and gives 276 pages, with the book first published in 2001 by Western Reflections.
Abingdon Press's author page lists the novel among the ten earlier books of Oden, who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and is a United Methodist. We found no outside source that discusses the plot or the book's reception, so we say no more about the story than the description does.
Who it is for
The novel suits readers of Western historical fiction, especially stories of women pioneers and of Colorado's mining and coal towns. People who know Crested Butte as a ski town may enjoy a story set when the railroad first arrived.
Ways to use this book
Walking the town after reading
If a visit is on your list, look at the museum's walking tour listing before you go and see what it says about booking. Reading a chapter at home and then standing on Elk Avenue makes a fiction set in a real town easier to picture.
Telling the real town from the story
A novel invents its people, so use the encyclopedia article to check dates and industries as you read. The coal era it describes is a good question for a book group: what did the town's economy look like, and who held power?
Go deeper
This novel opens when a young woman arrives in Crested Butte, a coal and silver supply town in the Elk Mountains. The sources below cover the real town and the surrounding Gunnison country.
Crested Butte
A Colorado Encyclopedia article tracing the town from its founding in 1878 as a supply camp for silver mines, through its years as a coal town, to its present as a ski resort.
Crested Butte Museum
A local museum that says it preserves the history of Crested Butte and the Gunnison Valley, and lists exhibits, collections and historic walking tours of Elk Avenue.
Gunnison County
The Colorado Encyclopedia's overview of the county, which was established in 1877 and includes Crested Butte in its northern part.
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