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These are a few of the pit-stops on that savage journey: He left for good in 1962 after “ripping and roaring around New York, getting thrown out of bars, getting in fights, one auto wreck, abusing friendships and generally going to pieces,” as he put it in a letter. He first moved there in 1957 with the hope of enrolling at Columbia University and working for The New York Times. The fear had also thrice driven Thompson to New York City. He had been driven from one place to the next and sometimes back by work, poverty and “the fear,” his term for the stifling pedestrian life that seemed bound to consume his generation. Between leaving Louisville and moving to Woody Creek, he had resided in Florida, Pennsylvania, the Catskills, Puerto Rico, San Francisco, Big Sur and Aspen. It was, after his mother sold the Louisville house where he had grown up, the only place he could truly call home.īut that isn’t to say Thompson hadn’t lived elsewhere.

Thompson had resided at Owl Farm, in Woody Creek, Colorado, since 1968. The beloved author and counterculture figure ended his own life in the kitchen of his home, which he had dubbed Owl Farm and frequently referred to as a “fortified compound,” although it was in actuality only a house surrounded by 25 acres of woods. Thompson placed the muzzle of a handgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger.

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