Burro race, practice
dc.date | 1950?-1959? | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-01-03T05:54:18Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-03T09:21:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2007-01-03T05:54:18Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-02-03T09:21:12Z | |
dc.identifier | libimagesNMHFM215 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11124/8759 | |
dc.description | Burro race practice 50's. | |
dc.description | Date scanned: 2001-03-27. | |
dc.description | Identifier: NMHFM-215. | |
dc.description | Related photographs: NMHFM-214. | |
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 showing a young woman with her burro practicing for the annual Rocky Pack-Burro Championship Race (It is now called the World Championship Pack-Burro Race) over Mosquito Pass. 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 | People | |
dc.subject | Recreation and sports | |
dc.title | Burro race, practice | |
dc.type | StillImage | |
dc.contributor.institution | Colorado Digitization Project | |
dc.contributor.institution | National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum |