And the West is History

100 years ago: Frank and Stem Edmisten had “a narrow escape from death or serious injury” when their car went off the road between Turkey Creek and West Fork Bridge, and “plunged 200 fee...

DATE: Aug 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: The Durango Democrat received a telephone call “from the Florida mesa of the death of Peter Alfred Wahlburg, from acute indigestion.” Wahlburg spent 20 years in the area a...

DATE: Aug 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: A complaint in Local News about the Western Union Telegraph Co. said, “The word ‘service’ is not found in the Western Union Telegraph company’s dictionary. This is no refl...

DATE: Aug 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: Wanted advertisements included: “To the sheep man wishing a location for lambing ground and a place to hold sheep during the shipping season, close to Durango, see J.W. Tu...

DATE: Aug 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: “One tap of the fire bell sounded” the night before at about 11 p.m., “which sent the fire department to Main Avenue and 17th.” It turned out to be a false alarm, but “the...

DATE: Aug 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: The porter at Kent’s barbershop was “mighty sore at Tewalt’s dog, as the dog seems to have taken personal liberties unbecoming any gentleman dog and got the porter and the...

DATE: Aug 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: B. Fisher, “who was pinched” for assault and battery, was fined “five and costs and advised to join the army if he wants to fight in justice court.” 75 years...

DATE: Aug 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: Clay Williams, “a recent arrival from Mancos, and now living on Fourteenth street,” was arrested on a warrant “sworn out by his wife, Bina, on a charge of assault and batt...

DATE: Aug 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: A “casual investigation” of the coal situation in Durango showed that the O.K. Mine was selling and delivering slack and screenings in the city at “20 cents the ton less t...

DATE: Aug 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: Fred Eckley of Marvel “blew in during the forenoon” to have “a little taste of city life.” 75 years ago: Mrs. Charles Longstorm received word that her cousin...

DATE: Aug 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: Police arrested Peter Phillips, a “formerly well-known citizen of Durango,” and charged him with “wife beating.” He pleaded not guilty and “was bound over in the sum of fi...

DATE: Aug 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

And the West is History

100 years ago: Ross McGirr of the Otis-McGirr company returned by train “from somewhere in the United States where he had been visiting for some time.” 75 years ago: The Jo...

DATE: Aug 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History