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Colorado, United States
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Aspen, city, seat (1881) of Pitkin county, west-central Colorado, U.S., on the Roaring Fork River at the eastern edge of the White River National Forest (elevation 7,907 feet [2,410 meters]). Founded by prospectors c. 1878, it was named for the local stands of aspen trees. It became a booming silver-mining town of 15,000 by 1887, but Aspen declined rapidly after silver prices collapsed in the early 1890s and became all but a ghost town. It...

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