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And the West is History

100 years ago: “Joe Freed was down from his Trimble Springs hotel and reports the roads passable by automobile. He came in to get an engineer’s license and avoid being pinched by the new und...

DATE: Mar 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Charles Godfrey, who has been in the hospital several days as a result of a splinter flying into his eye, was out, with indications of no permanent injury to result form the ...

DATE: Mar 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “A new angle was given the proposed milk ordinance for the city of Durango when Commissioner Wilson advised the city council at its regular meeting that the Civic Club Committ...

DATE: Mar 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “A fire in the stone building on the corner of Main Avenue and 12th Street, formerly occupied by the San Juan Transfer Company from unknown origin, caused damage to several hu...

DATE: Mar 1, 2014 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “W. F. Hunter, post trader on the reservation 30 miles below Farmington, who has been spending a couple of months at his old home in Illinois, returned on the Eastern with a b...

DATE: Mar 1, 2014 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “In the hardest fought battle they have had this season, the Durango High School basketball team defeated the fast Silverton team at the high school gym with a final score of ...

DATE: Feb 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: SILVERTON – “The train at the Sunnyside Mine has been completed and the ore bins are rapidly being filled at the mills. It is expected they will be going full force within a f...

DATE: Feb 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Manuelita Martinez, 17, the daughter of Romero Martinez of Perins Peak, had an almost miraculous escape from death when she was run down by a Calumet mine switch engine and d...

DATE: Feb 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Miss Pollock found the gold watch which she lost two weeks ago at the doorstep, frozen in ice. After thawing it out, she found it was not injured in the least.” 75...

DATE: Feb 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “W.H. Norton, of the local Ford Car Agency, returned from Aztec and Farmington to get a new order book, having filled up his old one with calls from the prosperous ranchers of...

DATE: Feb 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

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100 years ago: “A lot of new citizens will be made in this county, or there will be less hunting and fishing done by some persons legally, owing to the firm stand taken by County Clerk Mrs. ...

DATE: Feb 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: The following appeared in the classified advertisements: “For sale – 25 head of high grade white faced cattle. Inquire of J.P. Lowell, Bayfield, Colo.” 75 years ago...

DATE: Feb 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

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