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And the West is History

And the West is History

By Forrest Stone Herald Staff Writer 100 years ago: “A force of painters” were decorating the outside of Graden’s store. It would be painted “light tan with dark bro...

And the West is History

By Forrest Stone Herald Staff Writer 100 years ago: Farms in the area had a massive season, to the extent that “quite a number” of San Juan basin residents were “pre...

And the West is History

By Forrest Stone Herald Staff Writer 100 years ago: June Roberts of Florida enclosed a 30-acre lot with “hog wire” and created a pasture for recently-purchased thoro...

And the West is History

By Forrest Stone Herald Staff Writer 100 years ago: In weather news, winter paid Durango “a return engagement during the early morning hours. Newspaper folk and othe...

And the West is History

100 years ago: F.C. Ames was “called to Mancos” to direct the funeral service of the late H.M. Barber, “an old-time resident of the San Juan basin who passed away.” 75 year...

And the West is History

By Forrest Stone Herald Staff Writer May 26 100 years ago: Mrs. Ida Daniels “filed on land located in the Tiffany section” and departed for Sublette, Kansas, “to mak...

And the West is History

By Forrest Stone Herald Staff Writer 100 years ago: Food production efforts “developed some enthusiastic feminine agriculturists” in Durango. One woman, who was “str...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Three days worth of mail was delivered to Durango via rail from Telluride, because of a landslide that interrupted train service. 75 years ago: Attempts to h...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Lead was reported to be in high demand and “extremely scarce.” Prices increased as a result. 75 years ago: Approximately 30 percent of the La Plata County po...

And the West is History

100 years ago: H.C. Foster of Chicago “came in on a scouting trip for the Chicago Cubs at the ball game between the prints and the barbers.” 75 years ago: State highway off...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Rumor had it that “after June 1 there will be fourteen new churches started at Silverton.” 75 years ago: Photos of Durango and La Plata County men who were s...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Court stenographer E.D. Peters came “down from Silverton” after a long week of working with the grand jury. 75 years ago: The war production board rubber coo...
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