Agreeing to accept the 2015 Citizen of the West award helped Philip Anschutz complete one more long-held goal: writing a book.
Addressing the 1,000 guests attending the benefit for the National Western Scholarship Trust, the businessman and philanthropist said “Out Where The West Begins” profiles 50 men who “contributed in the most impactful manner” to bringing the American West to the prominence it currently enjoys.
“In reality, not all the men I selected were ideal role models,” Anschutz acknowledged, “but they made a real difference.”
The book, which goes on sale Tuesday at Tattered Cover Book Store, also is a “small apology to my mother, who had been a teacher and wanted me to become one, too, for getting into the wrong line of business.”
The book covers a 120-year period, from 1800 to 1920, and focuses on how “imagination and actual fact merged to become reality.”
A more detailed report on the dinner will appear in the Style section of the Thursday Denver Post.
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