View of Platoro, Conejos County, Colorado, includes log cabins, Platoro Hotel in canvas tents, sheds, saddled horses, people in front of the general store with United States flag, and Red Mountain in the background.
A team of sled dogs stands by a hewn log building with a sign: "Platoro Hotel," Platoro, Conejos County, Colorado; snowy mountains are in the background.
Scattered log and tent structures, many under construction, make up the gold mining town of Platoro in the Platoro - Gilmore Mining District, Conejos County, Colorado; shows people in front of residences and stores along the wide center street.
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1910-1920.; Platoro (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Log buildings--Colorado--Platoro--1910-1920.; Tents--Colorado--Platoro--1910-1920.
Scattered log and tent structures comprise the gold mining town of Platoro in the Platoro - Gilmore Mining District (Conejos County), Colorado; shows people in front of residences and stores along the wide center street.
View of Gilmore, a settlement in the Platoro District, (Conejos) County, Colorado; shows log houses, tents, a wagon, a meadow, a feed trough, pine forest, hills, and fire damaged timber.
Conejos County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Conejos County--1910-1920.; Settlements--Colorado--Conejos County--1910-1920.
Panoramic view of a Fourth of July parade in the town of Platoro, Conejos County, Colorado. Participants ride on horses, and in cars on a dirt road past log buildings. One man sits on a horse and carries an American flag. A sign attached to the...
Platoro (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Automobiles--Colorado--Platoro--1900-1920.; Fourth of July celebrations--Colorado--Platoro--1900-1920.; Horseback riding--Colorado--Platoro--1900-1920.; Parades & processions--Colorado--Platoro--1900-1920.
Men stand by rock outcroppings and mineral deposits in the Platoro District, (Conejos) County, Colorado; one man holds a cloth bag of (probably) geological samples.
Platoro (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Miners--Colorado--Platoro--1900-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Platoro--1900-1920.; Rock formations--Colorado--Platoro--1900-1920.
Two men build a log structure at the town of Platoro (Conejos County), Colorado. Shaped logs, an iron stove, a milk jug, and a crate labeled "High Grade Tomato Catsup" are on the ground nearby. Log cabins and a tent are in the distance.
Platoro (Colo.)--1880-1910.; Building construction--Colorado--Platoro--1880-1910.; Log cabins--Colorado--Platoro--1880-1910.
Panoramic view of the town of Platoro in Conejos County, Colorado. Shows wood and log buildings and canvas tents. Horses graze in an open area. Hills are in the distance.
View of the town of Jasper in the Platoro Mining District (Park County), Colorado. Shows log and frame buildings and a horse-drawn buggy. Mountains are in the distance.
Log cabins are on a flat clearing surrounded by pine tree covered mountains in Platoro (Conejos County), Colorado. In the foreground are a series of concrete foundations.
A false front structure and two other log cabins are in a flat clearing surrounded by pine and Aspen tree covered mountains in Platoro (Conejos County), Colorado.
Log cabins and houses with vertical board siding are in a clearing surrounded by pine and Aspen tree covered mountains in Platoro (Conejos County), Colorado.
View of mine buildings and tailings piles in the Platoro - Gilmore Mining District (Conejos County), Colorado; pine forest covers hills in the background.
View of the Valley Queen mine shed and headframe in Platoro (Conejos) County, Colorado; a man sits and rolls a cigarette.
Conejos County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Valley Queen Mine (Conejos County, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Conejos County--1910-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Conejos County--1910-1920.
Men pose by a mine entrance in the Platoro District near Stunner (Conejos County), Colorado; one leans on an ore car. Sticks of dynamite are on the ground; tailings and a shed are up the hill.
Men pose by a mine entrance in the Platoro District near Stunner (Conejos County), Colorado; one has an ax, the other has a framing square. Wood, ties, and snow surround them.
Miners pose near the entrance to an unidentified mine, Platoro District, Conejos County, Colorado. One of the men leans on an ore cart, sticks of dynamite are on the ground, and tailings are above the group.
Mine railroads--Cars--Colorado--Conejos County--1890-1910.; Conejos County (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Miners--Colorado--Conejos County--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Conejos County--1890-1910.
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Men pose by an abandoned log cabin identified as the Argent Mining Company Assay Office, on the Gilmore Property in the Platoro Mining District, Conejos County, Colorado.
Conejos County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Log cabins--Colorado--Conejos County--1910-1920.; Miners--Colorado--Conejos County--1910-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Conejos County--1910-1920.
Log and tent structures make up the gold mining town of Stunner, in the Platoro Mining District, Conejos County, Colorado. Frank Wadleigh, General Passenger Agent of the Denver and Rio Grande stands in front of the log cabin next to men standing in...
Stunner (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Gold mining--Colorado--Stunner--1910-1920.; Log buildings--Colorado--Stunner--1910-1920.; Tents--Colorado--Stunner--1910-1920.; Wadleigh, Frank A.
Men pose in front of log buildings in Platoro Mining District, Stunner, Conejos County, Colorado. A man stands by a tent with a sign: "Drugs;" a ladder leans on a cabin by a tin can dump.
View of Lookout Mountain from Gilmore Meadow near Stunner in the Platero Mining District (Conejos County), Colorado. Shows felled timber, pine forest, hills, and a road.
Lookout Mountain (Conejos County, Colo.)--1900-1920.; Stunner (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Stunner--1900-1920.
View of Terrace Reservoir on the Alamosa River in Conejos County, Colorado; low hills and trees surround the water.
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company.; Conejos County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Terrace Reservoir (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Reservoirs--Colorado--Conejos County--1900-1920.
View of a winding dirt road , the toll road around Terrace Reservoir, in the Platero Mining District in Conejos County, Colorado. The Alamosa River and canyon are in the distance.
Alamosa River (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Conejos County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Dirt roads--Colorado--Conejos County--1900-1920.; Rivers--Colorado--Conejos County--1900-1920.; Toll roads--Colorado--Conejos County--1900-1920.