Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Klondykers, Cottonwood Placers, Pinion [sic] Colo.
- Cottonwood Placer Company men stand and sit on a riffle box (sluice) in front of a cabin in Pinon (Montrose County), Colorado, with picks, a shovel, and a gold washing pan. Sign reads: "Klondykers."
- Cottonwood Placer Company--People--1890-1900.; Pinon (Montrose County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cabins--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.;...
- 1897 Sep. 8
- Guarding 500 lbs of amalgam, Cottonwood Placers
- Nine men and one boy of probably the Cottonwood Placer Company stand and sit in front of a building and hold weapons in Pinon (Montrose County), Colorado. Weapons include: a Sharp's double barrel shotgun, a Winchester M1873 carbine, and a...
- Cottonwood Placer Company--People--1890-1900.; Pinon (Montrose County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Buildings--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.; Gold mining--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.; Gold--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.; Guards--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.;...
- 1897 Sep. 8
- Placer miners, Cottonwood Placer Co., Pinion [sic] Co.
- Ten miners from the Cottonwood Placer Company sit and stand in front of a wood frame building in Pinon (Montrose County), Colorado. One man holds a horse, and a dog lies on the ground.
- Cottonwood Placer Company--People--1890-1900.; Pinon (Montrose County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Buildings--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.; Horses--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.; Miners--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.; Mining--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.
- 1897 July 18
- Headquarters of Cottonwood Placer Co., Pinion [sic], Colo.
- View of the town of Pinon (Montrose County), Colorado. Shows a bridge over the San Miguel River.
- Pinon (Montrose County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; San Miguel River (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bridges--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.; Rivers--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.
- 1897 July 16
- Main Street Pinion [sic] Colo.
- View of the town of Pinon (Montrose County), Colorado. Shows a tent, a covered wagon, wood frame houses, and men and a woman in the distance.
- Pinon (Montrose County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.; Covered wagons--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.; Tents--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.
- 1897 July 16
- Bridge crossing San Miguel River at Pinion [sic] Colo.
- View of a bridge over the San Miguel River in Pinon (Montrose County), Colorado. Shows people by the river, scattered wood frame houses, a wagon, and cows near a corral.
- Pinon (Montrose County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; San Miguel River (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bridges--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Pinon (Montrose County)--1890-1900.; Rivers--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.
- 1897 July 16
- Main Street Pinion [sic] Colo.
- A man walks in the street while others sit by wooden buildings on Main Street in Pinon (Montrose County), Colorado. Shows a wagon with a rifle and equipment.
- Pinon (Montrose County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.
- 1897 July 18
- Coke kilns near Nathrop, Colo.
- View of workers in wagons, filled with pinon pine, pulled by horses or mules near beehive-shaped stone kilns, beside the railroad tracks, north of Nathrop, in Chaffee County, Colorado. Boxcars are on the tracks, and a large pile of wood is under a...
- Denver, South Park, and Pacific Railroad Company--1890-1900.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carts & wagons.; Coke industry.; Kilns.; Railroad freight cars.
- [Between 1890 and 1902?]
- Western History Subject Index
- Pinon Colony, Colorado
- Garden truck patch Cottonwood Placer Co. Pinion [sic] Colo.
- View of cultivated land possibly owned by the Cottonwood Placer Company in Pinon (Montrose County), Colorado.
- Pinon (Montrose County, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Croplands--Colorado--Pinon--1890-1900.
- 1897 July 16
- Western History Subject Index
- Pinon Colony Colorado
- Piñon tree, Kanab Canon
- A piñon tree is at the edge of a canyon on Kanab Creek in Coconino County, Arizona or Kane County, Utah.
- Pinyon pines--1870-1880.; Canyons--1870-1880.; Expeditions & surveys--1870-1880.; Trees--1870-1880.; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)
- 1872
- Western History Subject Index
- PINON CANYON
- Western History Subject Index
- Pinon, Colorado
- Western History Subject Index
- Pinon, Colorado
- Western History Subject Index
- Trees. Pinon
- Arizona Fatal Mining Accidents ; 1912-1929
- Index of Fatalities of Arizona miners between the years 1912 and 1929. Information is recorded alphabetically and included are: the name of the victim, date of the accident, county in which the mine is located or the mine company, whether fatal...
- Mine accidents--Arizona--Indexes.
- 2007
- Concrete lined Vallejos Ditch, Costilla County, Colorado
- View of the concrete lined Vallejos Ditch, after the USDA. Ditch no. 5 Special Improvement Project for the Vallejos Ditch system in San Pablo (Costilla County), Colorado. Shows a headgate in the irrigation ditch. Sagebrush and pinon covered hills...
- Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)--1960-1970.; Vallejos Ditch (Colo.)--1960-1970.; San Pablo (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Irrigation canals & flumes.; Irrigation canals and flumes--Colorado--San Pablo--Pictorial works.; Sangre de Cristo Mountains...
- [1965]
- Acequia, Costilla County, Colorado
- View of an acequia (irrigation ditch), possibly part of the Vallejos Ditch system in the San Luis Valley in Costilla County, Colorado. Shows grass and weeds. A wooden headgate is in the ditch. Sagebrush and pinon covered hills and the Sangre de...
- Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)--1990-2000.; Costilla County (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Irrigation canals and flumes--Colorado--Costilla County--Pictorial works.; Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)--Pictorial works.; Costilla County...
- [between 1990 and 2000?]
- South view of Horse Mountain from Bruce Creek the Lady Belle prospect is on the bare space at the right
- View of hills and scrub near the Lady Belle mine and Bruce Creek south of Eagle, Eagle County, Colorado. Horses and a wagon are by pinon pines.
- Eagle County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Horse Mountain (Eagle County, Colo.)--1900-1920.; Lady Belle Mine (Eagle County, Colo.)--1900-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Eagle County--1900-1920.
- [between 1900 and 1920?]
- Buttress Mountain (Oil Shale) on Brush Creek, near De Beque, Colo.
- View of a mountain identified as Buttress Mountain and the Roan Cliff formations with oil shale strata near De Beque (Mesa County) Colorado; also pinon pines, brush, and clouds.
- Oil-shales--Colorado--Mesa County--1910-1920.; Mesa County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Roan Cliffs (Utah and Colo.)--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Hotel El Tovar, Grand Canyon of Arizona
- View of the El Tovar Hotel, in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. The first floor is sheathed with log slab siding complete with finely-honed corner notching that gives the appearance of log construction. The upper stories have rough...
- Hotel El Tovar--1900-1910.; Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--1900-1910.; Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)--1900-1910.; Hotels.; National parks & reserves.
- c1905
- Hotel El Tovar, Grand Canyon
- View of a wing of the El Tovar Hotel, in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. The building has mansard roofs, dormers, porches with jigsawn balusters, the end porch has a gazebo attached to the entrance and tapered posts topped with trefoils.The...
- Hotel El Tovar--1890-1900.; Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)--1900-1910.; Hotels.; National parks & reserves.
- c1905
- Hotel El Tovar, Grand Canyon
- View of the El Tovar Hotel, in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. The building is on the edge of the Grand Canyon, a stone wall is near the rim of the canyon. The hotel has multiple roofs at different levels. The center section of the hotel has a...
- Hotel El Tovar--1900-1910.; Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--1900-1910.; Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)--1900-1910.; Canyons.; Hotels.; National parks & reserves.
- c1905
- The Arched Rock
- View of the Arched Rock formation and pinon pines near Palmer Lake (El Paso County), Colorado.
- El Paso County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Rock formations--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Monument Park, Col
- View of rock formations in Monument Park (El Paso County), Colorado. A man is by a pinon pine.
- El Paso County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Monument Park (El Paso County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Rock formations--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Curiosities of Monument Park
- View of a sandstone rock formation (the Parachute) and pinon pines in Monument Park (El Paso County), Colorado.
- El Paso County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Monument Park (El Paso County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Rock formations--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- The Dragon - Monument Park
- View of the Dragon rock formation and pinon pines in Monument Park (El Paso County), Colorado.
- El Paso County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Monument Park (El Paso County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Rock formations--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Garden of the Gods - Siamese Twins
- View of rock formations and pinon pines at Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado.
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Garden of the Gods (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Siamese Twins (Colo. : Rock formation)--1890-1900.; Parks--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.; Rock formations--Colorado--Colorado...
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Coal tipple
- A narrow gauge train engine followed by coal cars moves toward the tipple in an unidentified coal camp possibly in Las Animas County, Colorado. Shows industrial buildings, houses, and a large building, possibly a school or store, under...
- Mining camps--Colorado--1900-1930.; Cities & towns--Colorado--1900-1930.; Coal mining--Colorado--1900-1930.; Mining--Colorado--1900-1930.; Narrow gauge railroads--Colorado--1900-1930.; Tipples--Colorado--1900-1930.
- [between 1900 and 1930?]
- Ouray
- View of the entrance to Kramer's Fresh Fruit & Vegetables, possibly in Olathe, Montrose County, Colorado, signs read: "Kramers Farm Market, local potatoes, dried fruit, nuts, oranges, pinon nuts, apples, grapefruit, beans, onions," "Open," and...
- Olathe (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Fruit industry--Colorado--Olathe--1980-1990.; Markets--Colorado--Olathe--1980-1990.; Vegetables--Colorado--Olathe--1980-1990.
- 1985
- Totem Rock
- Five men pose on rocks around Totem Rock, near Green's Gulch, north of Turret, Chaffee County, Colorado. A pinon tree grows on top of the rock formation.
- Green's Gulch (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Turret (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Rock formations--Colorado--Turret--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1905?]
- 2 women & girls in front of stone bldg.
- Two women and two girls sit on a bench in front of a low one- story, rectangular masonry building with uniform set rock, a hipped roof and pinon pines.
- Girls--1930-1940.; Women--1930-1940.
- [1930?]
- Mt. Timpanogos, Utah
- View of snow-capped Mount Timpanogos, Utah County, Utah, with pinon pines.
- Timpanogos, Mount (Utah)--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Juniper trees?
- View of juniper or pinon pines and a yucca.
- Yucca--1920-1940.; Trees--1920-1940.
- [between 1922 and 1935?]
- Shovel & truck - line change
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad construction in (probably) Colorado or Utah consists of a crane-shovel loading a dump truck by a river. Lettering reads: "Marion Type 7," and "Driscoll Trucking Co.;" pinon forest covers a hill in the...
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1920-1940.; Dump trucks--1920-1940.; Railroad construction & maintenance--1920-1940.; Rivers--1920-1940.; Steam shovels--1920-1940.
- [between 1922 and 1935?]
- Navajo Canyon, Mesa Verde Natl. Park
- Navajo Canyon, at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, has sandstone cliffs and pinon dotted talus.
- Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Navajo Canyon (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Canyons--Colorado--1910-1920.; National parks & reserves--Colorado--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]
- Oakview, Colorado
- View of the store and post office at Oakview (also known as Oakdale or Tropic), a coal mining town in Huerfano County, Colorado; stone- block building inscription reads: The Pinon Supply Company 1908.
- Oakview (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Coal mining--Colorado--Huerfano County--1900-1920.
- [between 1908 and 1920?]
- Enchanted Mesa
- View of Mesa Encantada (Enchanted Mesa or Katzimo) in Cibola County, New Mexico; shows sandstone cliffs and pinon pine forest.
- Cibola County (N.M.)--1900-1910.; Encantada, Mesa (N.M.)--1900-1910.; Mesas--New Mexico--Cibola County--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Medium security
- Chain link fence surrounds the medium security complex of the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. Flat and shed roofed buildings have lawn and baseball backstops fronting them. Guard towers are at entrances on each side; trees, the town,...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1960-1970.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- 1960
- Tree burial
- View of a pinon pine with a Native American burial scaffold in it probably in Montana. Oddly shaped rocks surround the tree.
- Indians of North America--1900-1920.; Scaffold burial--1900-1920.; Trees--1900-1920.; Rodman Wanamaker Expedition.
- [between 1908 and 1913]
- Mountain, New Mexico
- View of a dirt road, chamisa, and pinon trees near the Rio Grande River in probably Taos County, New Mexico. Adobe houses with fenced yards are near the river. Mountains are in the distance.
- Rio Grande--1890-1900.; Taos County (N.M.)--1890-1900.; Dirt roads--New Mexico--Taos County--1890-1900.; Rivers--New Mexico--Taos County--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Side view of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison
- View of the steep rock walls of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in Colorado. Shows rugged rock formations, pinon dotted hills and cumulus clouds.
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison (Colo.)--1970-1990.; Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park (Colo.)--1970-1990.; Canyons--Colorado--Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park--1970-1990.; Clouds--Colorado--Black Canyon of the Gunnison National...
- [between 1975 and 1981?]
- Las Tablas
- An abandoned, wrecked automobile is in a field near the adobe (probably) San Luis Gonzaga Catholic Church and graveyard in Las Tablas (Rio Arriba County), New Mexico. The church has a wooden steeple. Shows a wire fence and buildings. Rock...
- San Luis Gonzaga Catholic Church (Las Tablas, N.M.)--1970-1980.; Las Tablas (N.M.)--1970-1980.; Adobe buildings--New Mexico--Las Tablas--1970-1980.; Automobiles--New Mexico--Las Tablas--1970-1980.; Catholic churches--New Mexico--Las...
- 1974
- Looking down at Raton, New Mexico, from Raton Pass
- View of Raton (Colfax County) from Raton Pass, New Mexico. Shows houses and commercial buildings. Pinon trees dot the hills on the pass. Buttes, mountains and mesas are on the plains.
- Raton (N.M.)--1940-1950.; Raton Pass (Colo. and N.M.)--1940-1950.; Cities & towns--New Mexico--Raton--1940-1950.; Passes (Landforms)--New Mexico--1940-1950.
- 1940 May
- Hotel El Tovar, Grand Cañon, Arizona
- Partial view of El Tovar Lodge, Grand Canyon (National Park), Arizona; three-story wooden frame and log lodge opened in 1905, built by Fred Harvey Company, designed by Charles Whittlesey, architect; shows horse-drawn wagon at front entrance,...
- Hotel El Tovar--1900-1910.; Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--1900-1910.; Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)--1900-1910.; Hotels--Arizona--Grand Canyon--1900-1910.; National parks & reserves--Arizona--1900-1910.; Whittlesey, Charles.
- [between 1905 and 1910]
- Pike's Peak from Florenc [sic], Cañon City & Royal Gorge Ry.
- Distant view of snow-covered Pikes Peak, Colorado, a fourteener in the Rocky Mountains, taken from Florence, Cañon City and Royal Gorge Railway, a proposed electric street railway never built with only some grading done; foreground includes dead...
- Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Electric railroads--Colorado--1900-1910.
- [1906 or 1907]
- Mt. Sopris and Crystal River Valley, Colo. Midland Ry.
- View of Mount Sopris (elevations 13,283 feet) and agricultural fields in Crystal River Valley near Carbondale, Colorado, reached via Colorado Midland Railway; slope is covered with piñon & juniper, left foreground.
- Carbondale (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Crystal River (Colo.); Sopris, Mount (Colo.); Croplands--Colorado--Carbondale--1900-1920.; Colorado Midland Railway Company.
- [between 1900 and 1919]
- Place Ranch, Plateau Valley, Battlement Mesa, Colo. Midland Ry.
- Pristine view of Place Ranch's agricultural fields near undeveloped Battlement Mesa, Mesa County, Colorado, reached via Colorado Midland Railway; shows fields with deer grazing in distant center and sage, juniper & piñon vegetation.
- Mesa County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Agriculture--Colorado--Mesa County--1910-1920.; Croplands--Colorado--Mesa County--1910-1920.; Ranches--Colorado--Mesa County--1910-1920.
- [1911?]
- Plateau Creek, Plateau Valley, Colo. Midland Ry.
- View of Plateau Creek in Plateau Valley, Mesa County, Colorado, reached via Colorado Midland Railway; dirt road is paralleled by barbed wire fence; creek or stream winds through juniper & piñon trees on hillsides.
- Mesa County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Plateau Creek (Colo.); Plateau Valley (Colo.); Colorado Midland Railway Company.
- [1911?]