Random Harvest: A Selection of Poems, Verse & Quotations That I Have Collected Over the Years - 1998

1998. First Edition. Like New/No Dustjacket as Issued. In lieu of a Memoir, a book of more general interest. Thirty Five copies of Random Harvest were printed for private distribution to his family and friends by D.R.C. Brown. In three parts: "Poetry by generally recognized authors; Verse that I hesitate to call poetry, a few limericks, and some old cowboy songs; Quotations which I have found amusing, or which reflect my own feelings on the subject". Some family Maxims at end. Brown was a longtime Carbondale, Colorado rancher, and it may be safe to say that there may have been no skiing in Aspen, Colorado if it were not for D.R.C. Brown. Brown helped the Aspen Skiing Corp. struggle to its feet in 1946 by leasing the firm hundreds of acres of mining claims on Aspen Mountain. He served on the first board of directors after industrialist Walter Paepcke formed the company. Brown later guided the company through its most prosperous period of growth as president and general manager for 22 years. He won election to the Colorado Senate in 1952. In addition to all his accomplishments, Brown also was probably the last second generation Aspenite whose roots trace all the way back to the town’s founding as a silver camp. His father, D.R.C. Brown Sr., worked at H.P. Cowenhoven’s hardware store in Blackhawk, Colo., when they decided to try their luck elsewhere in 1880. His father eventually became business partners with Cowenhoven, his future father-in-law. They amassed a fortune in the mercantile business and invested in some of Aspen’s most successful silver mines. Brown invested wisely in diverse interests and survived the 1893 silver crash that ruined many of his contemporaries. Of interest to the trout fisherman, there is a rare photo on the title page from an anonymous photographer of a stringer of large trout with Brown Sr., taken in front of The Roaring Fork Power & Light Company on Galena Street in Aspen. Total weight of the eleven fish was 55 pounds (dressed). You can certainly say that those were the days. A unique Aspen, Colorado collectable.