Jumat, 03 Maret 2017

A Formidable Fighting Man, Jim Clark Served as Marshal of Telluride, Colorado

Bad behavior cost him the job, but he later got back his badge. As the mining camp of Telluride on the western slope of the Colorado Rockies boomed in the 1880s, the usual assortment of crooked gamblers, muggers, stickup men and rogues of all sorts descended on it. The town fathers needed a tough fighting …

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