Telluride Sheriff J. Calvin Rutan (left) deputized Robert Meldrum, Willard Runnells and other hired gunmen to keep Union Miners in line during the labor struggles of 1902-1904. The Telluride Miners Union building is in the left background. Joseph Byers, Photographer. Courtesy Telluride Historical Museum.
Telluride Town Hall, with its fire bell and hose tower, is behind this parade of local motor cars. While the house to the right of Town Hall has been lost, the Miner's Union building at the far right still stands. Photograph courtesy of the Homer Reid Collection and Sundance Publications.
In the winter of 1895-96, a wagon sleigh drawn by two horses was photographed sitting in deep snow in the middle of Colorado Avenue. Men in suits stood on the cleared boardwalk on the sunny north side of the street, while others shoveled snow on the south side. Courtesy of the Denver Public Library Western History Collection.
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