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And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: E.C. Miller “moseyed in from Denver via the Eastern” and was “surprised to find Durango still on the map.” 75 years ago: A proposed reconstruction project to...

And the West is History

100 years ago: There was a notice that stated, “Up in Silverton they’ve got down to the point where there’s only a few business houses and automobiles and teams that don’t support Old Gl...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Classified for-sale advertisements included “two exceptionally good 7-year-old jacks” from H. Cook, “300 high-grade Shropshire ewes, unsheared, with lambs at side from reg...

And the West is History

April 29 100 years ago: Classified wanted advertisements included a “man cook and dining room girl” at the Arlington Hotel in Pagosa Springs, “coal miners for the Emma Mine at Dunton, ne...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Platform men on the Rio Grande received good word from the railroad office that their pay would be increased from 16 cents an hour to 18 cents an hour. 75 ye...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Pat Quinn dropped in from Junction Creek to “shake hands with friends and to load out a big batch of supplies.” 75 years ago: Increased physical training was...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Charles Idle brought in eggs from the Animas Valley to trade at Graden’s. 75 years ago: There was an announcement that warned all industrial and institutio...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Harry A. Kelly of Dolores left Durango for Memphis, where he would “undergo another operation on his leg, that has caused him a great deal of pain the last two or three ye...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Louis Herman of Boulder, “grand patriarch of the I.O.O.F. lodge of Colorado,” departed for Alamosa to deliver an important address to the community. 75 years...

And the West is History

100 years ago: A boulder, estimated to weigh more than 100 tons, “rolled down the hillside, over the track and into the river,” and “demolished” a section of railroad on the Farmington b...

And the West is History

100 years ago: There was a report published to warn people that “trouble in a different form lurks on the trail of stock owners.” It related to I.M. Shaffer of Animas Valley, who “lost a...

And the West is History

100 years ago: There was an advertisement for pure seed potatoes, which included “Early Six Weeks and White Pearl varieties.” 75 years ago: The Department of Agriculture ma...
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