Harrison Avenue, Leadville. The town's Victorian storefronts have barely changed since the silver boom of the 1880s. Most articles about Leadville open with the same line. Highest city in America, two miles closer to heaven, blah blah. What they leave out is the stuff that actually makes the place strange and worth the drive. A horse pulling a skier down the main street at 35 miles an hour. A race born from a fight over who really invented it. A…
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