BY HUNTER S. THOMPSON INTRODUCTION BY DOUGLAS BRINKLEY One evening while editing The Proud Highway — Hunter’s first volume of selected letters — I stumbled across a cardboard box filled with frail, yellowish carbon sheets. I don’t remember the exact year, but Bill Clinton was president and Hunter was in a foul mood. We were […]
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TAKING THE OATH
BY DWIGHT SHELLMAN Dwight Shellman has been a Woody Creek attorney for more than 40 years. In the 1970s and ’80s he served as a Pitkin County commissioner and sat on the county planning & zoning commission and the RFTA board. From the early 1990s until his recent retirement as president of the Cad-do Lake […]
GOING TO SLEEP
BY RALPH STEADMAN MARCH 23, 1983 Plants don’t travel. Well, that’s for sure. They don’t join clubs and they don’t get into traffic jams. They drink, they sway in the wind, and they sing. “Be my friend,” they say, “don’t ask me to be a business associate or I will wilt.” Plants do not threaten, […]
GNT CARE PACKAGE: WOODY CREEK DROP MASTER INVENTORY LIST & LETTER FROM HUNTER S. THOMPSON
CROSSING PATHS WITH HUNTER
BY DAVID AMRAM For Hunter S. Thompson, February 2006 By David Amram for his forthcoming book Nine Lives of Musical Cat I first crossed paths with Hunter S. Thompson in 1950 when he was working for the Middletown Record, a small paper in upstate New York. Hunter was staying on the West side of Route […]
