Long-read: The Golden Goose Syndrome and the Train

What we can learn from the Silverton depot bombing mystery

Still from the 1950 film, Rio Grande.

It was one of those late-summer days in the San Juan Mountains when the sky is so blue it almost hurts, when the iridescent leaves of the aspen are just taking on a tinge of yellow, when each morning dawns with a crisp hint of fall and a thin veneer of frost. San Juan County Sheriff Virgil Mason and local business o…