Powder Burn
Subtitle: Arson, Money, and Mystery on Vail Mountain
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: January 19, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781586480035
Subjects: Industries - Hospitality, Travel & Tourism; United States - State & Local - General; History - General History; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; History; United States - 20th Century; History: American; Ski resorts; Corrupt practices; Vail; Arson investigation; Colorado; Environmentalism
First sentence: The solitary lynx, supremely adapted to its ecological niche after millions of years of evolutionary trial and error, paused in the snowdrift behind a stand of aspen and trained its pointy ears like tufted radar dishes toward the upper reaches of the frozen Eagle River.