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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...

DATE: May 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

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...

DATE: May 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

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...

DATE: May 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

And the West is History

100 years ago: Classified wanted advertisements included “a good dining room girl at Trimble Springs Hotel” and “two competent men for firemen and must be willing to do police duty.” ...

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

And the West is History

100 years ago: A movement was “underway to form a domestic science class for the purpose of instruction in canning vegetables, among the housewives of the city.” 75 years a...

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

And the West is History

100 years ago: In “Fording” news, Jake Baer, Graden Packing Plant meat buyer, departed Durango “in a Ford” to the Kline mesa “on cattle business.” 75 years ago: In the “Rat...

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

And the West is History

May 17 100 years ago: Sheep men, the Kirk brothers, arrived in Durango to purchase goods from Graden’s, and “loaded out supplies for their sheep camp up Horse Gulch.” 75 ye...

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

And the West is History

100 years ago: A.T. Brener, “of the Kline,” was among the farmers who visited the city, and reported that, “crop-growing measures sure have been moving some in his section of terra firma...

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

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