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And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: Mrs. McQuaid, a resident on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street, was “having a siege with appendicitis.” 75 years ago: Hundreds of shoppers flocked ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Employment agent for the Smuggler Mining Company, T.W. Sampson, arrived in Durango from Telluride to find “good miners for his company.” 75 years ago: The An...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Classified for sale advertisements included a side board, china closet, dining room table, typewriter desks, a new heating stove, single and double beds, small tables, kit...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Classified wanted advertisements included a “woman for all around housework” at the Southern Hotel, ranch workers for a “man and wife” and a “wanted at once” notice for a ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Several people attended a party at the Strater to celebrate Mr. and Mrs. Oren Frary’s third wedding anniversary. 75 years ago: The municipal associations in ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Will Compton was released from the hospital after he was severely burned via electric shock, and “came down from Silverton” to spend “some time with the home folk.” ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Mrs. L.M. Ricketts and her daughter departed for Farmington after they spent several days in Durango receiving dental work. 75 years ago: Four Durango church...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Roy Cottrell replaced Lee Klinefelter as “instructor in shop work and mathematics at the Fort Lewis agricultural school” after Klinefelter took a Navy job as an aerial dra...

And the West is History

100 years ago: A private zoo performance was held by the Wells Fargo express force and featured a caged mountain lion that was shipped by its capturer John Crawford of Mancos. ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: D.N. Funston of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Exploration company announced that his company had officially purchased the Gold Prince company, otherwise ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Gus Olbert, a farmer of the Thompson’s Park section, returned home after a business trip. He planned to have his son look after his ranch interests when the crops had been...

And the West is History

100 years ago: A weather report for Durango said, “the weather maker is providing us with some of those perfect days the poets sing about.” 75 years ago: Cadet Franklin W. ...
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