EXCERPT | The Colorado Book
Inside U.S.A. John Gunther COLORADO, THE MOST SPECTACULAR of the mountain states, lives on many things: scenery, beet sugar, gold, molybdenum, livestock, tourists, and tuberculosis. As to this last, I heard an ungentle and tasteless Coloradan complain, “Some fiend in human form discovered that rest, not altitude, was the best cure for T.B., and so the tuberculosis cases don’t come to Colorado so much anymore, and the economy of suffered terribly as a result, so I suppose you could say that...