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Black powder blasts at Ogden Marathon usher in upper valley's bicentennial celebration
OGDEN VALLEY — Before the starting gun sent some 6,500 competitors out into the Ogden Valley for the 24th annual Ogden Marathon on Saturday, a different kind of blast marked the 200th anniversary of fur trapper and explorer Peter Skene Ogden’s May 1825 arrival in the area along with his troop from the Hudson's Bay Company. The blast came from black powder rifles, courtesy of local mountain man enthusiasts dressed in period-accurate frontier attire, similar to what Ogden and other trappers might have worn. Alan, Dan and Tyrel Phister of the Ogden-based Fort Buenaventura Mountain ...
