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Cokedale Mine marshals Crecencio Vigil and Melitón Barela

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Call Number	AUR-2306
Title	Cokedale Mine marshals Crecencio Vigil and Melitón Barela
Title-Alternative	Latinos/Hispanics in Colorado Collection; image no. Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy, 401.
Summary	Crecencio Vigil and Melitón Barela, marshals at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Cokedale Mines in Cokedale (Las Animas County), Colorado. They pose near a dugout structure with a roof made from pine boughs. Crecencio (left) wears a hat, coat and boots. He holds a rifle and wears a cartridge belt with a holster and pistol and five pointed star shaped badge. He has a mustache. Melitón wears similar dress and holds a rifle. He is clean shaven. Clothes hang on an upright and cooking pots are on the ground.
Date	[1913?]
Notes	Content derived from inventory prepared by Dana EchoHawk.; From inventory: "Left to right: Crecencio Vigil and Meliton Barela were hired by CF&I as marshals of the Cokedale mine in southern Colorado. They guarded the coal mine and coke ovens against activity by disgruntled miners. Meliton is a younger brother of Casimiro Barela, Colorado's "Perpetual Senator" of Las Animas County. Notice the dugout structure with the plate of fruit on the roof, the cooking pots at the lower right, and a mirror and towel. Crecencio wears a Colt 45 Model 1871. (Courtesy of Hispanic Pioneers in Colorado and New Mexico).; Scan of a photograph from: Hispanic pioneers in Colorado and New Mexico / Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy, 2006. Source: A. Gene Vigil.; Scanned image from loaned collection.; Title derived from inventory.; Digitization sponsored by the Library Services and Technology Act and the Center for Colorado & the West at Auraria Library.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Is Part Of	Latinos/Hispanics in Colorado Collection.
Subject	Hispanic Americans--Colorado--1920-1930. Mexican Americans--Colorado--1920-1930. Cokedale (Colo.)--1920-1930. Private police. Barela, Melitón--Pictorial works. Vigil,, Crecencio--Pictorial works. Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works. Mexican Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works. Police, Private--Colorado--Cokedale--Pictorial works. Cokedale (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
Source	loan; Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy; 2010.; Source: loan, Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy, owner, A. Gene Vigil, 2010.
Rights	Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
Reproduction Available for Purchase	No
Type of Material	Digital images.; Digital images.
Contributors	Vigil, A. Gene owner.; Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy lender.
Format-Medium	Photograph
Identifier	AUR-2306; (OCoLC)664565613
Filename	00152306.TIF
CONTENTdm number	865

Cokedale Mine marshals Crecencio Vigil and Melitón Barela

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