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Sun Valley / Ketchum

America's First Ski Resort
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A railway chairman built Sun Valley in 1936 to give his trains a winter destination, and an engineer adapted a banana-loading conveyor into the world's first chairlift for it. Hemingway finished For Whom the Bell Tolls in a room here and is buried in Ketchum, where he shot himself in 1961.

Nearby in the atlas
Jackson Hole — Wild West on the Slope
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