Old Smuggler Narratives manuscript 1940-1964

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Old Smuggler Narratives manuscript 1940-1964

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"Old Smugglers Narratives" collection includes a photocopy of a typescript by Gertrude B. Sayre recounting the history of the Smuggler Mine and incidents in the history of Telluride, Colorado. The manuscript is dated 1940. There is also a page by Robert H. Sayre Jr. advancing the story of the Smuggler Mine to 1964.

cubic ft. (1 small collection envelope)

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Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Sayre, Robert H. (Robert Heysham), 1824-1907

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Civil engineer and railroad executive. Robert Heysham Sayre was born in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, on October 13, 1824, and died in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on January 5, 1907. His father, William H. Sayre, brought the family to Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania in 1829, where he became weighmaster for the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company. Like many company officials, he secured for his son an apprenticeship in the company's engineer corps, starting in 1840 when Ro...

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Sayre, Robert H. (Robert Heysham), 1824-1907

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pg2jbq (person)

Civil engineer and railroad executive. Robert Heysham Sayre was born in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, on October 13, 1824, and died in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on January 5, 1907. His father, William H. Sayre, brought the family to Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania in 1829, where he became weighmaster for the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company. Like many company officials, he secured for his son an apprenticeship in the company's engineer corps, starting in 1840 when Ro...

Sayre, Gertrude B.

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Gertrude B. Sayre was the wife of Robert H. Sayre, manager of the Smuggler mine near Telluride, Colorado. The Smuggler mine was discovered by John Fallon in the mid-1870s, and the mine produced silver ores with traces of gold and lesser metals throughout the latter nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries. General managers of the property included Thomas Ernest Waters, Arthur Collins, and Bulkeley Wells. Robert Sayre was replaced as manager of the Smuggler in 1940, a...