ASPEN ” Jay Cowan says that his friend, foil and property-mate Hunter S. Thompson would have loved certain aspects of Cowan’s new book about Thompson. He’d have been pacified by the timing: Thompson ...

Jay Cowan was a 19-year-old kid, fresh out of Chicago and looking for a job, when he discovered Lake Wohlford tucked away in the mountains above Escondido. The only thing available at the lake ...