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.
