ASPEN, Colo. – To 72-year-old Betty LaMont, her 40-acre piece of land in remote Pitkin County, Colo., is her bank account. The land LaMont’s family homesteaded in the late 1880s lies at 8,000 feet in a grove of aspen, three miles from Thomasville, population 25, and 50 miles from the county seat, Aspen. LaMont says […]
