Two baseball players sit on top of the Thornburgh monument with their baseball gloves. The two part sandstone monument commemorates the Thornburgh battle in 1879 during the last days of September and early days of October. The top stone has names...
Milk Creek (Rio Blanco County and Moffat County, Colo.), Battle of, 1879--Monuments.; Meeker (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Indians of North America--Colorado--Meeker--1910-1920.; Monuments & memorials--Colorado--Meeker--1910-1920.
View of a concrete obelisk marker that commemorates the Battle of Beecher Island, fought between U.S. troops and some 1,000 Native Americans (Cheyenne)in Yuma County, Colorado. The marker is surrounded by an iron fence. A U. S. flag flies from an...
Beecher Island, Battle of, 1868--Monuments.; Cheyenne Indians--Commemoration--Colorado--Yuma County--1940-1970.; Indians of North America--Commemoration--Colorado--Yuma County--1940-1970.; Yuma County (Colo.)--1940-1970.; Monuments &...
View of the Central Hotel located at 975 Main Avenue, Durango, Colo. Built in 1892, the hotel is one of the most striking structures on Main Avenue. The red brick three-story Italianate structure has a Mansard roof on the fourth floor with...
Central Hotel (Durango, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Hotels--Colorado--Durango--1970-1980.; Durango (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Central Hotel (Durango, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Hotels--Colorado--Durango--Pictorial works.; Durango (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
Outdoor portrait (standing) of Dick Washakie, a Native American (Shoshone) man. He wears a scarf around his neck and head, a hat, and a medal that commemorates his father's (Washakie) participation in the Battle of Little Bighorn pinned to his...
Indians of North America--1920-1940.; Shoshoni Indians--1920-1940.; Military decorations--1920-1940.; Washakie, ca. 1804-1900--Family.; Washakie, Dick.
A girl sits near a marker that commemorates the Battle of Summit Springs in Washington County, Colorado. The metal plaque is mounted on a pad of concrete. The plaque reads: "Location of Tall Bull's lodge where Mrs. Weichel was found July 11, 1869....
Cheyenne Indians--Commemoration--Colorado--Summit Springs--1960-1970.; Indians of North America--Commemoration--Colorado--Summit Springs--1960-1970.; Summit Springs (Colo.), Battle of, 1869--Monuments--1960-1970.; Summit Springs...
A Canadian in his World War I uniform, his wife and a Hopi, Native American, attorney from Seattle, adorned with beads and feather headdress stand in front of the Thornburgh Monument. The two part sandstone monument commemorates the Thornburgh...
Hopi Indians--1910-1920.; Milk Creek (Rio Blanco County and Moffat County, Colo.), Battle of, 1879--Monuments.; Meeker (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Indians of North America--Colorado--Meeker--1910-1920.; Monuments & memorials--Colorado--Meeker--1910-1920.
Close-up view of a marker that commemorates the Battle of Beecher Island, in Yuma County, Colorado; the battle was fought between U.S. troops and Native Americans (Cheyenne). The stone monument has an inscription that details the return to Fort...
Beecher Island, Battle of, 1868--Monuments.; Cheyenne Indians--Commemoration--Colorado--Yuma County--1940-1960.; Indians of North America--Commemoration--Colorado--Yuma County--1940-1960.; Yuma County (Colo.)--1940-1960.; Monuments &...
Close up view of a stone marker that commemorates Mackenzie's Fight in Wyoming. The marker reads: "Here Nov. 25, 1876 Gen. R. S. Mackenzie with U. S. forces composed of detachments fo the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, Cavalry, 4th and 9th Artillery, 9th and...
Mackenzie, Ranald Slidell, 1840-1889--Monuments.; United States. Army. Artillery.--Commemoration--Wyoming--1960-1980.; United States. Army. Cavalry.--Commemoration--Wyoming--1960-1980.; United States. Army....
Close up view of a stone marker that commemorates Mackenzie's Fight in Wyoming. The marker reads: "Here Nov. 25, 1876 Gen. R. S. Mackenzie with U. S. forces composed of detachments fo the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, Cavalry, 4th and 9th Artillery, 9th and...
Mackenzie, Ranald Slidell, 1840-1889--Monuments.; United States. Army. Artillery.--Commemoration--Wyoming--1960-1980.; United States. Army. Cavalry.--Commemoration--Wyoming--1960-1980.; United States. Army....
A masonry shell at the bottom of a valley is all that remains of the Buell Mining Company's power plant in Mountain City, Gilpin County, Colorado. Mining facilities and dwellings dot the area; an obelisk (in square enclosure) commemorates the first...
Buell Mining Company (Mountain City, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Mountain City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Gold mining--Colorado--Mountain City--1940-1950.; Power plants--Colorado--Mountain City--1940-1950.; Free Masons--Monuments.
Three men, two Native Americans and one white man, pose on horses in front of the large San Jacinto Monument in Houston, Texas. The monument is a tall obelisk topped by the "Lone Star of Texas" and commemorates the Battle of San Jacinto of 1836....
Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Battlefields--Texas--1930-1950.; Monuments & memorials--Texas--1930-1950.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.; San Jacinto, Battle of, 1836.
Two men, one Native American, one white, pose on horses in front of the large San Jacinto Monument in Houston, Texas. The monument is a tall obelisk topped by the "Lone Star of Texas" and commemorates the Battle of San Jacinto of 1836. The monument...
Wild west shows--1880-1920.; Battlefields--Texas--1930-1950.; Monuments & memorials--Texas--1930-1950.; Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917.; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.; San Jacinto, Battle of, 1836.
View of a concrete obelisk historical marker with a metal plaque near Chivington, Kiowa County, Colorado; it commemorates the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864 in which United States troops killed some 200 Native Americans (Cheyenne and Arapaho), two...
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company.--1960-1970.; Arapaho Indians--Colorado--Kiowa County--1960-1970.; Cheyenne Indians--Colorado--Kiowa County--1960-1970.; Indians of North America--Colorado--Kiowa County--1960-1970.; Sand Creek Massacre, Colo.,...
Canadian war party and baseball team gather with their automobiles near the Thornburgh Monument, outside of Meeker, Colorado. The two part sandstone monument commemorates the Thornburgh battle in 1879 during the last days of September and early...
Hopi Indians--1910-1920.; Milk Creek (Rio Blanco County and Moffat County, Colo.), Battle of, 1879--Monuments.; Meeker (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Indians of North America--Colorado--Meeker--1910-1920.; Monuments & memorials--Colorado--Meeker--1910-1920.
View of a marker that commemorates the Sand Creek Massacre in Kiowa County, Colorado. The marker consists of a wedge shaped piece of granite that is on a rectangular piece of concrete elevated on two cylindrical supports. The marker reads: "Sand...
Arapaho Indians--Commemoration--Colorado--Kiowa County--1960-1970.; Cheyenne Indians--Commemoration--Colorado--Kiowa County--1960-1970.; Indians of North America--Commemoration--Colorado--Kiowa County--1960-1970.; Sand Creek Massacre, Colo.,...
Close up view of a marker that commemorates the Sand Creek Massacre in which United States troops killed some 200 Native Americans (Cheyenne and Arapaho), two thirds of whom were women and children, Kiowa County, Colorado. The marker consists of a...
Arapaho Indians--Commemoration--Colorado--Kiowa County--1970-1980.; Cheyenne Indians--Commemoration--Colorado--Kiowa County--1970-1980.; Indians of North America--Commemoration--Colorado--Kiowa County--1970-1980.; Sand Creek Massacre, Colo.,...
Close-up view of a marker that commemorates the Sand Creek Massacre in which United States troops killed some 200 Native Americans (Cheyenne and Arapaho), two thirds of whom were women and children, Kiowa County, Colorado. The concrete obelisk has...
Arapaho Indians--Commemoration--Colorado--Kiowa County--1970-1980.; Cheyenne Indians--Commemoration--Colorado--Kiowa County--1970-1980.; Indians of North America--Commemoration--Colorado--Kiowa County--1970-1980.; Sand Creek Massacre, Colo.,...
View of the stone marker with a iron pipe fence, near Whitebird Creek, Idaho, that commemorates the Nez Perce Native American war campaign led by Young Chief Joseph though Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming from June 15 to October 5, 1877. Sign...
Joseph, Nez Percé Chief, 1840-1904--Monuments--1920-1940.; Indians of North America--Commemoration--Idaho--1920-1940.; Nez Percé Indians--Commemoration--Idaho--1920-1940.; Monuments & memorials--Idaho--1920-1940.
A Canadian in his World War I uniform, his wife and a Hopi, Native American (an attorney from Seattle adorned with beads and feather headdress) are in front of the Thornburgh Monument. The Canandian's wife sits on base below the men. The two part...
Hopi Indians--1910-1920.; Milk Creek (Rio Blanco County and Moffat County, Colo.), Battle of, 1879--Monuments.; Meeker (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Commemoration--Colorado--Meeker--1910-1920.; Indians of North America--Colorado--Meeker--1910-1920.;...
A Canadian in his World War I uniform shakes hands with Hopi Native American, an attorney from Seattle, adorned with beads and feather headdress in front of the Thornburgh Monument. The Canandian's wife sits on base below the men. The two part...
Hopi Indians--1910-1920.; Milk Creek (Rio Blanco County and Moffat County, Colo.), Battle of, 1879--Monuments.; Meeker (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Indians of North America--Colorado--Meeker--1910-1920.; Monuments & memorials--Colorado--Meeker--1910-1920.
Stone memorial marker with a bronze plaque commemorates the Wagon Box Fight, (Wagon Box Battle) between the United States Army and Native American Sioux and Cheyenne warriors in the last major conflict of the Bozeman Trail conflicts (Red Cloud's...
Cheyenne Indians--Commemoration--Wyoming--1920-1930.; Dakota Indians--Commemoration--Wyoming--1920-1930.; Indians of North America--Commemoration--Wyoming--1920-1930.; Red Cloud's War, 1866-1867--Commemoration--Wyoming--1920-1930.; Wagon Box Fight,...