From AIS Bulletin #221 April 1976 Introducing MAROON BELLS (Tom Magee). BB, 27", M. Centennial named for Colorado's famed purple mountain majesty, Maroon Bells, near Aspen. Dark red-violet self, brown haft; bronze beard; ruffled, domed standards; flaring, wide falls with enough ruffle to ring the bell! (Bang x Martel) X Swahilli. EC 1974. $12.00. Wedow Iris Garden.