Editing Ouray, Colorado (section)

==In popular culture==
[[File:Ouray County Courthouse in Ouray, Colorado.JPG|thumb|Ouray County Courthouse where scenes from ''True Grit'' were filmed in 1968]]
* In [[Ayn Rand]]'s novel ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'', the protagonist's secret hideaway was located in an unnamed valley in the Rocky Mountains called Mulligan's Valley or "Galt's Gulch." Rand later said that Galt's Gulch was inspired by Ouray, where Rand found inspiration to complete the novel.<ref>"Speaking of Atlas Shrugged... That is the little town [Ouray] I had picked for Galt's Gulch..." --Ayn Rand, 1960, quoted at http://groups.msn.com/AtlasShruggedCelebrationDayinOurayColorado {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705060931/http://groups.msn.com/AtlasShruggedCelebrationDayinOurayColorado/ |date=July 5, 2008 }}</ref>
* Major League baseball pitcher [[Smoky Joe Wood]] was born in Kansas City but grew up in Ouray.<ref>Vaccaro, Mike. ''The First Fall Classic: the Red Sox, the Giants, and the Cast of Players, Pugs and Politicos Who Reinvented the World Series in 1912''. Doubleday, 2009, {{ISBN|978-0-385-53218-1}}, p. 30</ref>
* In [[Chuck Wendig]]'s novel ''[[Wanderers (novel)|Wanderers]]'', Ouray is the destination selected by Black Swan (An AI super computer) as the destination for its sleepwalkers to wait out the pandemic 'White Mask' and rebuild civilisation. Parts of the novel are set in a simulation of Ouray and towards the end, in Ouray itself. The sequel ''Wayward'' is set largely in Ouray.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wanderers |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/OC9/wanderers/ |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US}}</ref>