Burro race, beginning
| dc.date | 1952? | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-01-03T05:53:40Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-03T09:27:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-01-03T05:53:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-02-03T09:27:39Z | |
| dc.identifier | libimagesNMHFM136 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11124/7700 | |
| dc.description | Date scanned: 2001-03-13. | |
| dc.description | Identifier: NMHFM-136. | |
| dc.description | Related photographs and negatives: NMHFM-5, NMHFM-133, NMHFM-137, NMHFM-138, NMHFM-139, NMHFM-143, NMHFM-144, NMHFM-197, NMHFM-198, NMHFM-199, NMHFM-200, NMHFM-264, NMHFM-266, NMHFM-267, NMHFM-268, NMHFM-274, NMHFM-275, NMHFM-683, NMHFM-684, NMHFM-686, NMHFM-688. | |
| dc.description | Unmounted; text on verso. | |
| dc.description | Held in the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum. | |
| dc.description | Donor: Charles Burgess. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Photograph of Harrison Street in Leadville showing contestants moving past a church at the beginning of the Fourth Annual Rocky Pack-Burro Championship Race in 1952 (the date on the verso of the photograph is probably incorrect). The Race was started in 1949 as part of the town of Fairplay's Gold Days Celebration. It was originally a grueling 22.9 miles starting in Leadville, Lake County and traveling over Mosquito Pass to end in Fairplay, Park County. The burros carry a thirty-three pound pack saddle loaded with traditional mining equipment. Contestants can pull, push or chase their burros, but must stay tethered to them by a fifteen-foot rope and are not allowed to ride. In the 1950s, the winner of the race received $500 and a trophy presented by the Rocky Mountain News. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Sponsored by the Colorado State Library, the regional library systems of Colorado, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. | |
| dc.publisher | Colorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library | |
| dc.rights | Rights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.html | |
| dc.subject | Animals, pack | |
| dc.subject | Buildings, religious | |
| dc.subject | People | |
| dc.subject | Recreation and sports | |
| dc.subject | Vehicles, automobiles | |
| dc.title | Burro race, beginning | |
| dc.type | StillImage | |
| dc.contributor.institution | Colorado Digitization Project | |
| dc.contributor.institution | National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum |
