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AMERICAN STYLE: Billy Barr, the Mountain Hermit

By: Crested Butte
Date: May 25, 1982
GothicGothic MountainCrested ButteSnodgrass MountainColoradoRocky Mountain Biological LaboratoryTrenton

Summary

The strain of Billy Barr's classical guitar echoes through the ramshackle wooden buildings clustered under Gothic Mountain. It is the only sound that spells human life in this once flourishing silver mining town. And the 31-year-old Barr is the only "permanent" resident. Others have come and gone, b