Photograph of two candidates for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado, 1970, at the debate held in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowmass,_Colorado" class="extiw" title="w:Snowmass, Colorado">Snowmass</a> on October 12. "Freak Power" candidate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson" class="extiw" title="w:Hunter S. Thompson">Hunter S. Thompson</a>, at right, regards his opponent, the Democratic candidate and incumbent sheriff Carrol D. Whitmire. Thompson wrote about his campaign in the article "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Aspen" class="extiw" title="w:The Battle of Aspen">The Battle of Aspen</a>", published in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone" class="extiw" title="w:Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a></i> magazine no. 67 (October 1, 1970); this photo did not run in that article.
Published by the Thompson campaign, printed by Thompson's associate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_W._Benton" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas W. Benton">Thomas W. Benton</a>. Photographer uncredited; likely David Hiser, who took other photos for the campaign.
Taken on 12 October 1970
*<b>Original source</b>: Published on the backside of "Aspen Wall Poster No. 5", a Thompson campaign poster distributed in and around Aspen circa October 1970.
<ul><li><b>Immediate source</b>: Scan via <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.facebook.com/FreakPowerHST/photos/pcb.189014389233509/189014372566844/">Freak Power page</a> at Facebook. Cropped to include just the photo and retouched by uploader; see upload history below for unretouched original.</li></ul>