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Author: Carol Turner Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1614233241 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 151
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While today's Telluride might bring to mind a hot tourist spot and upscale ski resort, the earliest days of the town and surrounding San Miguel County were marked by an abundance of gamblers, con men and murderers. From Bob Meldrum, a deputized killer who prowled the streets during times of labor unrest, to the author's own ancestor, Charlie Turner, a brash young man killed in a shooting in Ophir, Carol Turner's Notorious Telluride offers a glimpse at some of the sordid, shocking and sad pioneer tales of the area.
Author: Carol Turner Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1614233241 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 151
Book Description
While today's Telluride might bring to mind a hot tourist spot and upscale ski resort, the earliest days of the town and surrounding San Miguel County were marked by an abundance of gamblers, con men and murderers. From Bob Meldrum, a deputized killer who prowled the streets during times of labor unrest, to the author's own ancestor, Charlie Turner, a brash young man killed in a shooting in Ophir, Carol Turner's Notorious Telluride offers a glimpse at some of the sordid, shocking and sad pioneer tales of the area.
Author: Carol Turner Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 162584123X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 160
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From the shooting of a Secret Service agent in the wilds near Hesperus to the "grave misfortune"? of Kid Adams, a not-so-successful highwayman, these tales from the lofty heights of the San Juans are packed with mystery, pathos and fascinating historical details. Mined from the frontier newspapers of Ouray, San Juan and La Plata Counties, these stories tell of range wars, desperadoes and cattle rustlers, lynchings, ill-tempered ranchers with trigger fingers and women fed up with their husbands. There are famous and infamous newsmen, wild stagecoach rides, scapegoats and stolen lands. Carol Turner's Notorious San Juansoffers a rowdy ride through the region's not-so-quiet history.
Author: Richard L. Fetter Publisher: Caxton Press ISBN: 9780870042652 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 204
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Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press After booming with the discovery of gold and silver in the last century, Telluride went bust and slept for decades only to revive and enter a new era when skiing became popular in the 1960s.
Author: David Lavender Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 72
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This edition is about the memorable history of a Colorado Town called Telluride. The Telluride Story traces the saga of this mountain village from its early days of silver exploration to its rise from a near ghost town to a unique ski resort and festival mecca. This edition focuses on Telluride's spectacular mountain scenery, while offering a glimpses of an era long past.
Author: Charles Leerhsen Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 1501117483 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 320
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Charles Leerhsen brings the notorious Butch Cassidy to vivid life in this surprising and entertaining biography that goes beyond the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to reveal a more fascinating and complicated man than legend provides. For more than a century the life and death of Butch Cassidy have been the subject of legend, spawning a small industry of mythmakers and a major Hollywood film. But who was Butch Cassidy, really? Charles Leerhsen, bestselling author of Ty Cobb, sorts out facts from folklore and paints a brilliant portrait of the celebrated outlaw of the American West. Born into a Mormon family in Utah, Robert Leroy Parker grew up dirt poor and soon discovered that stealing horses and cattle was a fact of life in a world where small ranchers were being squeezed by banks, railroads, and cattle barons. Sometimes you got caught, sometimes you got lucky. A charismatic and more than capable cowboy—even ranch owners who knew he was a rustler said they would hire him again—he adopted the alias “Butch Cassidy,” and moved on to a new moneymaking endeavor: bank robbery. By all accounts, Butch was a smart and considerate thief, refusing to take anything from customers and insisting that no one be injured during his heists. His “Wild Bunch” gang specialized in clever getaways, stationing horses at various points along their escape route so they could outrun any posse. Eventually Butch and his gang graduated to train robberies, which were more lucrative. But the railroad owners hired the Pinkerton Agency, whose detectives pursued Butch and his gang relentlessly, until he and his then partner Harry Longabaugh (The Sundance Kid) fled to South America, where they replicated the cycle of ranching, rustling, and robbery until they met their end in Bolivia. In Butch Cassidy, Charles Leerhsen shares his fascination with how criminals such as Butch deftly maneuvered between honest work and thievery, battling the corporate interests that were exploiting the settlers, and showing us in vibrant prose the Old West as it really was, in all its promise and heartbreak.
Author: Jan Murphy Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 0762789344 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 163
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Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Colorado, with compelling legends of the Centennial State's most despicable desperadoes. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, and hiss at lawmen turned outlaws.
Author: Carol Turner
Author: Carol Turner
Author: Carol Turner
Author: Telluride Association
Author: Jeff Burch
Author: Elizabeth Barbour
Author: Richard L. Fetter
Author: Colorado. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Author: David Lavender
Author: Charles Leerhsen
Author: Jan Murphy