Owl Farm aka fortified compound. After renting a home nearby, Hunter used a royalty check from sales of Hells Angels to put a down payment on Owl Farm, where Thompson would live until committing suicide with a gun there in 2005. The war room is where Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a backyard firing range was a prominent amenity, and the home was the stage for the multi-day drug binges Thompson was famous for. Six months after his death, a second funeral was held on the property during which Thompsons ashes where shot from a cannon mounted on the top of a 150-foot sculpture of the signature fist holding a peyote flower - a symbol of freak power. Johnny Depp paid for the affair, while 280 people, including Senators John Kerry and George McGovern and a host of celebrities, attended. Hunters wife, Anita Thompson, still lives at Owl Farm. ski.curbed/archives/2013/08/mapping-hunter-s-thompsons-aspen.php#more. Eight photos by yours truly August 2014.
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