5th generation Coloradan. They would actually close access to Silverton down in the winter back in those days. Even in the last 30 years, it has been unaccessable for months at a time in winter. A lot of my relatives were miners, and I have some crazy stories. I am a direct dependent of the Marlow brothers from Texas, and they homesteaded north of there by Ouray. When I was a kid, we would spend the summers going to abandoned mines and towns all over the western slope. I'm glad you made it to Colorado. Come back in the fall it's even more beautiful.
Closures on highway 550 north of Silverton to Ouray and south of Silverton to Durango are part of life and usually don't last more than a few days. I've never heard of both ways being closed unless it was a result of a huge snow storm but even then it's cleaned up quickly. It's rare that Silverton gets cut off in both directions and your comment is quite misleading. I grew up there from age 10 to 25.. Every year all year round.. Lived it
@@terriec808When I lived in Silverton in the mid 70s there was a snow cat driver from Ouray that was hit by an avalanche. His body was not found until the spring, and I heard the snow cat looked like a tinker toy 💔
Hi Ron... I am from Irish decent. This cemetery you are showing in Silverton, Colorado, and the story of the young lad who died from getting sucked into the pulley system reminds me of the copper mines some of our relatives worked in. They were miners in the copper mines of Ishpeming, Michigan, and Butte, Montana. My great great grandfather Michael Mulcahy was killed in one of the mines in Ishpeming, MI. His sons, my uncles, left mining for that reason, and went into working in different facets of the railroad in Escanaba. We still have not found out how our grandfather was killed and we do not know where his grave is located. We are still trying to find the information. In another part of our family, one of my many uncles was killed in a mining accident in Butte. He was riding in a cage lift or type of elevator with another miner. When the lift stops at the level you choose to exit on, the lift and gate are supposed to be secured before the cage continues to move upward in the shaft. The two miners stopped at one of the levels for the other miner to exit. The other miner exited and forgot to secure the lift, and my uncle's leg was caught on the way down about 20+ feet in a shaft of hundreds of feet, and he also hit his head. He died 6 days later at the age of 29 years old. We also lost another in Butte, but that is going to take a trip to the Archives there. Your program of Silverton, CO was very telling of the situations these pioneers faced. Many are so sad, but the history, so interesting. Thank you for sharing your travels and the history. 🌷🌷
This is an amazing cemetery! My husband and I were married in Silverton and visit regularly. The San Juan Historical Society is responsible for the updated headstones and engravings. There is also a book named “Faces of the Flu” that outlines all the victims of the Spanish Flu and gives the burial location in Hillside Cemetery. Amazing history!
Thank you, Ron! I’m a Colorado Native, (grew up outside of Gunnison elev. approx. 8,000 ft), and actually rode on the Narrow Gauge train when I was growing up. Thanks for giving good scenic views of one of many of Colorado’s beautiful older mining towns!
I've met a couple of people from the Gunnison area who have not read or even heard of Peter Jenkins, "A Walk Across America," In the second book, "The Walk West: A Walk Across America 2" (Louisiana to Oregon) he spends a year in the Gunnison area, one of the most memorial parts of his journey.
Massively appreciative! Thank you to the people who marked these graves, paid for and labeled all these monuments, and persevered the history for us. And thank you, Ron, for hiking thru thin air for us!! ❤❤❤ 👏 👏
Silverton cemetary was so historic , and wonderful to see that folks were thoughtful enough to place headstones and note the lives of those who pioneered there. Thanks Ron!
At Christmas in Ouray, in the old days, an Italian miner would dress up as Santa, on Christmas Eve he would ride a wooden horse drawn sleigh. He would stop at each child's house where he would leave a gift of fruit, nuts and candy in a bag that he hung on the front doorknob, my friend born there over a hundred years ago, told me about him.
Great exercise Ron and I’m subscribed so I got notification 🔔 may the LORD bless you and your family and that you continue for many many more. Thanks for the tour…..keep working and driving those amazing road trips.
When I was young, my family spent 6 weeks every summer in those mountains. I know that grave yard well. I'm old and disabled now. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking me back there. All my family of origin are dead now... covid 19 took the last of them. I, in turn, took my children there several times when they were young. I've forwarded this to them. I've been a subscriber of yours for a long time. This is manna for my old soul! ❤
Very. nice job Ron. I live 120 miles away and have spent many hours multiple times scouring through there. I never get tired of it. The town does a really good job keeping it up. There are a lot of markers with the 1918 date on them. Silverton was decimated from the 1918 flu. I think 1/3 of the town was lost. When you get back to Colorado another awesome cemetery is in Central City. It is on an overgrown hillside that is not taken care of. It takes hours of scouring through the trees. Don't rush it. Unfortunately Central City has become a gambling town and has lost the historic flair in most places. The cemetery is on the outskirts of town. I camped on the hill above the cemetery several years ago and kept hearing noise and music coming from the cemetery at night before I figured out it was teenagers partying below the cemetery.
The aerial perspective always makes me think how people are people everywhere...no matter where we go, whatever people eat, or where they live. Everyone has challenges...great or small...whether we are still living or those that have departed and paved the way for us...anywhere on the planet. It is so cool you bring those who have gone before us and their trials and stories. Thank you for that....and the beautiful views!
I am from Durango, which is south of Silverton, and a friend and I spent a few hours in this cemetery sometime in June, 2023. We saw all of the "Soiled doves" graves that we could find. They are all together. Thank you for the very well done tour of that beautiful and most interesting place.
An English telephone box in the middle of nowhere, that's great. We don't have telephone box's in England anymore , not working one's anyway. Lovely to see.
@@helenmcdonnell2585 That was a blue police telephone box , l don't actually remember seeing one of them in real life . I love seeing telephone box's in random places.
@@twinkletoes8099 There is one red telephone box in the village near me , but it only takes card's. Shame to see most of them go . All the newer call box's have been taken away .
I had a family friend who was born in nearby Ouray, early 1923. His uncle was an undertaker in Silverton, probably 1890's-'20's. My friend, his dad was born in Telluride in the 1890's. By age 13, he had to go to work to support his mother, because his goldminer father would get paid on Friday, and gamble his paycheck away over the weekend there in Telluride. My friend's father did not pursue mining, he ended up in Ouray, partnered in a grocery store on Main street. My friend's father 'unalived' himself unfortunately, in that little grocery store, shortly after Pearl Harbor. My family friend would still burst into tears as an elderly man, whenever he would recount the memory of his father's tragic, completely unexpected sudden death. He did say that the local fraternal organization gave his father the most dignified service and burial, free of charge. His mother then sold their home and they moved as far away from Ouray and Colorado, in order to find a new life after their personal tragedy. They are all now buried in this beautiful cemetery right before Ouray, on a hillside and it is just stunning gorgeous of a setting.
You didn't disappoint Ron, great homage to the State of Colorado. Loved your coverage of this historic cemetery. I grew up close to the great Rocky Mountains, but have lived east in the arid plains for the past 40 or so years. I appreciate you bringing those mountains closer to me through this video, and relating some of the wonderful unknown stories that make up Colorado's history. Thank You
Ron, thank you for taking us to another beautiful cemetery. I feel so horrible that there are that many unidentified graves. Hopefully they're all resting in peace. Stay safe and welcome back!
I love all your episodes but this is by far my favorite. Thank you. I'll probably never get a chance to go there in this lifetime, so I lived vicariously through you. Thanks Ron.
Such a beautiful area. I would love to walk all over that cemetery looking at all the graves. This cemetery is so interesting. Ron, I'm so glad you shared this cemetery with us. Keep yourself safe out there.🙂💟
Hi Ron... The cemetery is incredible on the hillside and the views of the mountains are so beautiful and breathtaking...RIP to all .....thanks for vlogging this story..take care........ Deborah 🇨🇦
Hi Ron! What an amazing place! The cemetery is awesome and the mountains in the background are breathtaking. I also like all the White Birch trees. I could stay there for hours checking it all out. I'm glad those ladies are remembered and recorded. Modern times don't treat them as disgraced or soiled. It was a job they had to do, and maybe some were forced into it. Not a lot of opportunities for women back then. Thank you for this, it's been a treat. Be safe out there on your travels.
Great video! I spent several vacations there as a kid, my dad had a couple cousins who worked in the mine there and we went up to visit. Beautiful place. I never went to the cemetery (I wasn't as fascinated with them back then) and I now want to go back. Sadly, my wheelchair doesn't do cross country much so I get to live vicariously through your videos. Have a good trip.
Women had so little choice to actually make a buck back then. If their husband or parents died they were often destitute or starving. What were their choices? One school teacher in town. Couldn't borrow money. Hard to own a business. And you'd better know how to use a gun.
Wow Ron fantastic video. Alot of cornish people went to America to work the mines. My uncle was welsh he mined in penselvania. Cornwall is an old tin mining county. Love from the UK 🇬🇧
I am from Iowa but LOVE LOVE COLORADO someday will be laid to rest there. think you Ron you do a great job. you be safe and again think you love colorado.
Absolutely loved this video. My husband, Leo, get excited about the videos. Time for him to get the snacks and watch our favorite person. Welcome back my brother.
Beautiful fly in with Little Jimmy and the music was terrific. Such a beautiful setting. Just amazing views and scenery. What a restful place for everyone to be buried. The roses for each of those ladies was so kind and thoughtful. Besides the people who had stones done for their graves, maybe nobody else other than you and them have shown these ladies respect and kindness. Those may be the only rose they received on their grave since they died. 21:31 The two Watson kids/cousins,...born 10 days apart, died 10 days apart. In the order in which they were born. Sad for both families. 24:03 Thank you for zooming up on this old mine structure. I noticed it in the distance and was curious what it looked like up close. It is beautiful. 34:27 I love all the panoramic views of the snowcap mountains and the valley below. I like your attire. Reminds me of what my Dad wore often. Warm and cozy and good wind breaker. The drive on Million Dollar Highway took me back to a family vacation where we drove along it. So beautiful. Thank you for taking us along and showing all the prettiest scenery. Dad took us on lots of family vacations to places surrounded by beautiful snowcapped mountains in the US. Today is Father's Day, and Father's Day this year fell on the anniversary of Daddy's passing, 16 June 2015. So, it is an extra tough day for our family. I cried as you drove on the Million Dollar Highway, but it was all happy tears of beautiful and happy memories. Thank you Ron, you are always the best of all that is online anywhere on UA-cam. Happy Father's Day to you. God bless you and keep you safe in your travels. 💙
Yes, Cornwall is in the UK. Those folks would be called Cornish. For Mr. Robert Evans, he’s Welsh. ER COF AM means “in memory of”, he was from Llanrwst, Wales. BU FARW means “died” May 25, 1898. YN “in” 34 NLWDD DED “years”, 34 years old when he died.
I really enjoy seeing these tucked away almost forgotten cemeterys in some case. This cemetery is beautiful, small town America. Seeing the fancy cemetery, Graves of Presidents, important events that lead to Deaths etc is very nice. But these types of cemeterys are important also. THANK YOU SIR, JOB WELL DONE.
Great to see another AMAZING VIDEO of our country's hstory . It truly is amazing and we can learn so much from it if only we would learn... Thanks again♡❤
Oh my - seeing Silverton brings back memories of a family vacation we had there in the 70's! We mainly went to ride on the Silverton-Durango steam train - but the view of the town matches my memories. Thanks for stopping of there and showing us this interesting cemetery, Ron
Hi? Ron. I loved the cemetary plus I love the history of the 1500 to 1900 hundreds. With my respect for the people who died a very young age and developed of different sickness. But this cemetary is so generous and beautiful just in the mountains with open fresh air. It makes me feel like I'm there spending my time. You're doing a great job, Ron, I pray for you in your travel and God Bless you and you safe.
Finally got to check this out Ron. The opening and closing scenery and music hooked me rught in.What a cool looking western town Silverton is and the cemetery was fascinating!! I was thinking alot about how you explained how remote the location is. Many people had to stay there regardless of how things went. Felt bad for the young women buried in that row, many died young, drinking, drugs illness, even suicide 💔. But the location is breathtaking!! Great adventure Ron thank you!
Thank you. I enjoyed that. I guess the last time I was in Silverton must have been 30 years ago. It makes me so happy to see that it has not filled up with an anthill of condos and such like so much of Colorado has.
This was a wonderful presentation and I thoroughly enjoyed it ! Beautiful country so much to see. Thank you for taking us on the walk and drive ( love the cave/rock drive through). Safe Travels. 🙏🙏🙏
Ron so good to see you again. I love the old graveyards , the gravestones the iron rails are just amazing. So sad😢 that so many children and babies died. I thing you know Sue and GV in Ireland. I will never get there but I have seen Ireland through them and the cemeteries they find are just amazing every video. I really loved❤ this one . Thanx😊
What a beautiful and old cemetery. The views are breathtaking. Love the stones with the explanations of their deaths. The sounds of the birds are so peaceful. Glad you are on your way back, missed you.
Thanks Ron. Love this video so much❤️You brought the old West back to life in all its rough, wild and passionate glory. Colorado Springs resident. When I was a kid my family moved to Colorado from Ohio. Everything felt so new and exotic at the time. ❤️
@@FacesoftheForgotten oh my gosh. 20 lifetimes🤗such an enchanting, magical comment. Probably so very much like those kind folk coming from Cornwall so full of hopeful expectation. I had a high school teacher who claimed to have seen Baby Doe Tabor when he was a kid. He said she was sitting on a rocker on a porch. He claimed his parents told him to always remember he saw Baby Doe Tabor. 🤗Interesting story❤️
My grandparents, aunt and uncle and cousins lived in Colorado Springs so visited a lot and got to tour some of the other places and of course walk around on Pikes Peak. Loved it there. Very interesting cemetery, a lot of work was done to research and mark those graves so their stories could be told
Great video, drone work, music Ron!! One of my favorite places in Colorado. Nice to see the cemetery is kept up and wow, so much history there. Thank you so much for this, Ron!
That one was awesome, thank you so much for sharing this with us all. And all those that took the time to find information on the deceased and put headstones on each one they did.
5th generation Coloradan. They would actually close access to Silverton down in the winter back in those days. Even in the last 30 years, it has been unaccessable for months at a time in winter. A lot of my relatives were miners, and I have some crazy stories. I am a direct dependent of the Marlow brothers from Texas, and they homesteaded north of there by Ouray. When I was a kid, we would spend the summers going to abandoned mines and towns all over the western slope. I'm glad you made it to Colorado. Come back in the fall it's even more beautiful.
Interesting!! With all the gates I saw on the highway it looks like they still close it from time to time, I guess you have to
Closures on highway 550 north of Silverton to Ouray and south of Silverton to Durango are part of life and usually don't last more than a few days. I've never heard of both ways being closed unless it was a result of a huge snow storm but even then it's cleaned up quickly. It's rare that Silverton gets cut off in both directions and your comment is quite misleading. I grew up there from age 10 to 25.. Every year all year round.. Lived it
@@FacesoftheForgotten they close the gates to do avalanche maintenence
@@terriec808When I lived in Silverton in the mid 70s there was a snow cat driver from Ouray that was hit by an avalanche. His body was not found until the spring, and I heard the snow cat looked like a tinker toy 💔
@@madaketmom I was in Silverton then.. I was ten I think. Would I have known you?
Hi Ron... I am from Irish decent. This cemetery you are showing in Silverton, Colorado, and the story of the young lad who died from getting sucked into the pulley system reminds me of the copper mines some of our relatives worked in. They were miners in the copper mines of Ishpeming, Michigan, and Butte, Montana. My great great grandfather Michael Mulcahy was killed in one of the mines in Ishpeming, MI. His sons, my uncles, left mining for that reason, and went into working in different facets of the railroad in Escanaba. We still have not found out how our grandfather was killed and we do not know where his grave is located. We are still trying to find the information. In another part of our family, one of my many uncles was killed in a mining accident in Butte. He was riding in a cage lift or type of elevator with another miner. When the lift stops at the level you choose to exit on, the lift and gate are supposed to be secured before the cage continues to move upward in the shaft. The two miners stopped at one of the levels for the other miner to exit. The other miner exited and forgot to secure the lift, and my uncle's leg was caught on the way down about 20+ feet in a shaft of hundreds of feet, and he also hit his head. He died 6 days later at the age of 29 years old. We also lost another in Butte, but that is going to take a trip to the Archives there. Your program of Silverton, CO was very telling of the situations these pioneers faced. Many are so sad, but the history, so interesting. Thank you for sharing your travels and the history. 🌷🌷
Thank you for sharing your story. 🌹
My mother's side of the family (Finnish heritage) had loggers and miners in Ishpeming, Mich and Republic, Mich.
Small world.
This is an amazing cemetery! My husband and I were married in Silverton and visit regularly. The San Juan Historical Society is responsible for the updated headstones and engravings. There is also a book named “Faces of the Flu” that outlines all the victims of the Spanish Flu and gives the burial location in Hillside Cemetery. Amazing history!
Thank you, Ron!
I’m a Colorado Native, (grew up outside of Gunnison elev. approx. 8,000 ft), and actually rode on the Narrow Gauge train when I was growing up.
Thanks for giving good scenic views of one of many of Colorado’s beautiful older mining towns!
Right on. And look out for next week, I take you up to Silver Plume - Way way way up in the mountain, big adventure
I've met a couple of people from the Gunnison area who have not read or even heard of Peter Jenkins, "A Walk Across America," In the second book, "The Walk West: A Walk Across America 2" (Louisiana to Oregon) he spends a year in the Gunnison area, one of the most memorial parts of his journey.
@@karentrimmer: great books! Read and loved both of them!
Massively appreciative! Thank you to the people who marked these graves, paid for and labeled all these monuments, and persevered the history for us. And thank you, Ron, for hiking thru thin air for us!! ❤❤❤ 👏 👏
Silverton cemetary was so historic , and wonderful to see that folks were thoughtful enough to place headstones and note the lives of those who pioneered there. Thanks Ron!
At Christmas in Ouray, in the old days, an Italian miner would dress up as Santa, on Christmas Eve he would ride a wooden horse drawn sleigh. He would stop at each child's house where he would leave a gift of fruit, nuts and candy in a bag that he hung on the front doorknob, my friend born there over a hundred years ago, told me about him.
our elders have the most amazing testimonies.Thank you for sharing
That's amazing. When I go to places like this I imagine what they were like at Christmas. Thanks
Sad and short lives these ladies lived. Thanks for making sure they aren't forgotten 💔
I think it's so lovely the way the soiled doves were not forgotten and some of the older headstones have been updated.
Hey Ron, that cemetery is absolutely beautiful...And the scenery is breath taking...Im so jealous....I'm so glad your slowly coming back....
throws honey on your face.neer neener
@@amandapanda7878huh?
Thanks Ron. Look forward to all you share.
I live in creede,it is so beautiful here,I'll never leave😊
Great exercise Ron and I’m subscribed so I got notification 🔔 may the LORD bless you and your family and that you continue for many many more. Thanks for the tour…..keep working and driving those amazing road trips.
Hey Ron, Cornwall England was famous for its miners. Many Cornish miners emigrated to the U.S. durring the gold rush to mine gold.
Came here to say this
When I was young, my family spent 6 weeks every summer in those mountains. I know that grave yard well. I'm old and disabled now. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking me back there. All my family of origin are dead now... covid 19 took the last of them. I, in turn, took my children there several times when they were young. I've forwarded this to them. I've been a subscriber of yours for a long time. This is manna for my old soul! ❤
so awesome that you forwarded this to them...great memories for you there...thanks for being a longtime sub here Kelly!!
To speak their names into the wind is to recognize their souls.❤️
Very. nice job Ron. I live 120 miles away and have spent many hours multiple times scouring through there. I never get tired of it. The town does a really good job keeping it up. There are a lot of markers with the 1918 date on them. Silverton was decimated from the 1918 flu. I think 1/3 of the town was lost. When you get back to Colorado another awesome cemetery is in Central City. It is on an overgrown hillside that is not taken care of. It takes hours of scouring through the trees. Don't rush it. Unfortunately Central City has become a gambling town and has lost the historic flair in most places. The cemetery is on the outskirts of town. I camped on the hill above the cemetery several years ago and kept hearing noise and music coming from the cemetery at night before I figured out it was teenagers partying below the cemetery.
great note, thanks! interesting.
The aerial perspective always makes me think how people are people everywhere...no matter where we go, whatever people eat, or where they live. Everyone has challenges...great or small...whether we are still living or those that have departed and paved the way for us...anywhere on the planet.
It is so cool you bring those who have gone before us and their trials and stories. Thank you for that....and the beautiful views!
I am from Durango, which is south of Silverton, and a friend and I spent a few hours in this cemetery sometime in June, 2023. We saw all of the "Soiled doves" graves that we could find. They are all together.
Thank you for the very well done tour of that beautiful and most interesting place.
Soiled doves 🕊 🕊 🕊 free birds.
Great drone video, Ron 👍
I can not think of a more beautiful eternal resting place. Thank you Ron
Our “backyard” of 45 yrs. every time simply stunning! Thank you for sharing Silverton. 😊
u r lucky!!
An English telephone box in the middle of nowhere, that's great. We don't have telephone box's in England anymore , not working one's anyway. Lovely to see.
I think that's our Tardis Doctor?
@@helenmcdonnell2585 That was a blue police telephone box , l don't actually remember seeing one of them in real life . I love seeing telephone box's in random places.
@joanmatchett8100 yes I know it was blue 💙 Dr Who 💙
yes plenty of them still in and around London, the blue boxes are rare to see now though, they were for the police to use and not for public use.
@@twinkletoes8099 There is one red telephone box in the village near me , but it only takes card's. Shame to see most of them go . All the newer call box's have been taken away .
Love this one. I love how they take care of the past loved ones and redid grave markers. Respect
Thanks Ron for sharing with us these beautiful gravestones and stories❤🙏
Thank you Ron. Some gorgeous country here.
I had a family friend who was born in nearby Ouray, early 1923. His uncle was an undertaker in Silverton, probably 1890's-'20's. My friend, his dad was born in Telluride in the 1890's. By age 13, he had to go to work to support his mother, because his goldminer father would get paid on Friday, and gamble his paycheck away over the weekend there in Telluride. My friend's father did not pursue mining, he ended up in Ouray, partnered in a grocery store on Main street. My friend's father 'unalived' himself unfortunately, in that little grocery store, shortly after Pearl Harbor. My family friend would still burst into tears as an elderly man, whenever he would recount the memory of his father's tragic, completely unexpected sudden death. He did say that the local fraternal organization gave his father the most dignified service and burial, free of charge. His mother then sold their home and they moved as far away from Ouray and Colorado, in order to find a new life after their personal tragedy. They are all now buried in this beautiful cemetery right before Ouray, on a hillside and it is just stunning gorgeous of a setting.
You didn't disappoint Ron, great homage to the State of Colorado. Loved your coverage of this historic cemetery. I grew up close to the great Rocky Mountains, but have lived east in the arid plains for the past 40 or so years. I appreciate you bringing those mountains closer to me through this video, and relating some of the wonderful unknown stories that make up Colorado's history. Thank You
Ron, the camera quality & clarity is absolutely STUNNING!!! Great choice of camera for sharing your awesome travels with your audience. 😉👍😁🙏🏻
Ron, thank you for taking us to another beautiful cemetery. I feel so horrible that there are that many unidentified graves. Hopefully they're all resting in peace. Stay safe and welcome back!
I'm calling you warm dove because you put your heart into each video my friend...CJ Kentucky
Hey, that’s very nice, you inspire me.
I love all your episodes but this is by far my favorite. Thank you. I'll probably never get a chance to go there in this lifetime, so I lived vicariously through you. Thanks Ron.
The lovely sound of rain .. isn't a blessing and the scenery is beautiful, RIP ladies Thanks for sharing Ron as always a great one ❤🙏
Good video. Corwall Englands Cornish miners were vastly experienced in coal and tin mining. In the 19th century very many wound up here in the U.S.
There's something very peaceful and kind about old cemetaries. Remembering those who came before us 🌷
Such a beautiful area. I would love to walk all over that cemetery looking at all the graves. This cemetery is so interesting.
Ron, I'm so glad you shared this cemetery with us.
Keep yourself safe out there.🙂💟
Astounding graveyard Experience! You gave us a real adventure. Your compassion for the women’s plight in life is endearing 💕
Hi Ron... The cemetery is incredible on the hillside and the views of the mountains are so beautiful and breathtaking...RIP to all .....thanks for vlogging this story..take care........ Deborah 🇨🇦
So glad you are back. Thank you for this great walk.
Hi Ron! What an amazing place! The cemetery is awesome and the mountains in the background are breathtaking. I also like all the White Birch trees. I could stay there for hours checking it all out. I'm glad those ladies are remembered and recorded. Modern times don't treat them as disgraced or soiled. It was a job they had to do, and maybe some were forced into it. Not a lot of opportunities for women back then. Thank you for this, it's been a treat. Be safe out there on your travels.
Colorado is beautiful! I could spend days walking that cemetary! Soo much to see soo much history. Thanks for bringing us along,loved this!
Great video! I spent several vacations there as a kid, my dad had a couple cousins who worked in the mine there and we went up to visit. Beautiful place. I never went to the cemetery (I wasn't as fascinated with them back then) and I now want to go back. Sadly, my wheelchair doesn't do cross country much so I get to live vicariously through your videos. Have a good trip.
Poor ladies, had no choice but to sell their bodies, they hated it so much that they drank themselves to death. So so sad. 😢😢😢😢
Some were brought in for the purpose of entertainment of the miners. To get them to let loose of their gold.
Women had so little choice to actually make a buck back then. If their husband or parents died they were often destitute or starving. What were their choices? One school teacher in town. Couldn't borrow money. Hard to own a business. And you'd better know how to use a gun.
Some committed suicide. One marker we saw said she drank strychnine.
Beautiful cemetery!! The double grave stones were twins!! So heartbreaking!!
Wow Ron fantastic video. Alot of cornish people went to America to work the mines. My uncle was welsh he mined in penselvania. Cornwall is an old tin mining county. Love from the UK 🇬🇧
I am from Iowa but LOVE LOVE COLORADO someday will be laid to rest there. think you Ron you do a great job. you be safe and again think you love colorado.
Colorado native here. Thank you for an excellent episode.
Absolutely loved this video. My husband, Leo, get excited about the videos. Time for him to get the snacks and watch our favorite person. Welcome back my brother.
I love your walks beautiful country great history.🇺🇸☮️🤠
Beautiful fly in with Little Jimmy and the music was terrific.
Such a beautiful setting. Just amazing views and scenery. What a restful place for everyone to be buried.
The roses for each of those ladies was so kind and thoughtful. Besides the people who had stones done for their graves, maybe nobody else other than you and them have shown these ladies respect and kindness. Those may be the only rose they received on their grave since they died.
21:31 The two Watson kids/cousins,...born 10 days apart, died 10 days apart. In the order in which they were born. Sad for both families.
24:03 Thank you for zooming up on this old mine structure. I noticed it in the distance and was curious what it looked like up close. It is beautiful.
34:27 I love all the panoramic views of the snowcap mountains and the valley below.
I like your attire. Reminds me of what my Dad wore often. Warm and cozy and good wind breaker.
The drive on Million Dollar Highway took me back to a family vacation where we drove along it. So beautiful. Thank you for taking us along and showing all the prettiest scenery.
Dad took us on lots of family vacations to places surrounded by beautiful snowcapped mountains in the US.
Today is Father's Day, and Father's Day this year fell on the anniversary of Daddy's passing, 16 June 2015. So, it is an extra tough day for our family.
I cried as you drove on the Million Dollar Highway, but it was all happy tears of beautiful and happy memories. Thank you Ron, you are always the best of all that is online anywhere on UA-cam.
Happy Father's Day to you. God bless you and keep you safe in your travels. 💙
What a wonderful cemetery! Very beautiful and so much history! Those folks in Silverton have done a great job with so many markers!
Thank you so much, such a beautiful place. I enjoy these videos. Lots of history.
Ron I have to say what you do is absolutely beautiful ❤thank you for all you do
🥰 Wow! I was hoping for a Part 2. That was beautiful. What a unique town and cemetery.
Beautiful old cemetery. I was there in 1971 and we rode the Silverton to Durango train, what a wonderful experience.
Unbelievable! One of your best! Thank you!
Yes, Cornwall is in the UK. Those folks would be called Cornish. For Mr. Robert Evans, he’s Welsh. ER COF AM means “in memory of”, he was from Llanrwst, Wales. BU FARW means “died” May 25, 1898. YN “in” 34 NLWDD DED “years”, 34 years old when he died.
Thank you for this valuable information!
Thanks for your comment! It explained a lot.
i luv that theres a british phonebox randomly
My old stopping grounds! I miss those mountains! ❤
I really enjoy seeing these tucked away almost forgotten cemeterys in some case. This cemetery is beautiful, small town America. Seeing the fancy cemetery, Graves of Presidents, important events that lead to Deaths etc is very nice. But these types of cemeterys are important also.
THANK YOU SIR, JOB WELL DONE.
Great to see another AMAZING VIDEO of our country's hstory . It truly is amazing and we can learn so much from it if only we would learn...
Thanks again♡❤
Incredible scenery! Sad stories. Thanks for sharing!
This was absolutely wonderful!! I love going into different cemeteries and looking at the older stones.
I could stay in that cemetery for days! Thank you for sharing! Always the best walks!
Thanks for your time, Ron..Stay safe..
WOW! Truly beautiful! Those Those mountains are gorgeous! I thank you so much for sharing this!
Thank you for sharing Mr Ron ❤This cemetery is fascinating ❤Safe travels ❤
I missed this when you first posted. I enjoyed this! Thank you Ron, what beautiful country!
Loved it! Thank you Ron , as always!
Oh my - seeing Silverton brings back memories of a family vacation we had there in the 70's! We mainly went to ride on the Silverton-Durango steam train - but the view of the town matches my memories. Thanks for stopping of there and showing us this interesting cemetery, Ron
Hi? Ron. I loved the cemetary plus I love the history of the 1500 to 1900 hundreds. With my respect for the people who died a very young age and developed of different sickness. But this cemetary is so generous and beautiful just in the mountains with open fresh air. It makes me feel like I'm there spending my time. You're doing a great job, Ron, I pray for you in your travel and God Bless you and you safe.
Finally got to check this out Ron. The opening and closing scenery and music hooked me rught in.What a cool looking western town Silverton is and the cemetery was fascinating!! I was thinking alot about how you explained how remote the location is. Many people had to stay there regardless of how things went. Felt bad for the young women buried in that row, many died young, drinking, drugs illness, even suicide 💔. But the location is breathtaking!! Great adventure Ron thank you!
Thank you. I enjoyed that. I guess the last time I was in Silverton must have been 30 years ago. It makes me so happy to see that it has not filled up with an anthill of condos and such like so much of Colorado has.
It makes me smile to see you still caring about those forgotten. Stay safe and keep bring us all those Stories of the lost and broken hearted.
Wow, most interesting graveyard ever. Beautiful place, but life was so short and difficult there. Great intro music Ron. Thanks for the walk ❤
This was a wonderful presentation and I thoroughly enjoyed it ! Beautiful country so much to see. Thank you for taking us on the walk and drive ( love the cave/rock drive through). Safe Travels. 🙏🙏🙏
I live in Colorado. What a beautiful state. I love the mountains here! Silverton area! Thank you Ron for this beautiful video
Thank you Ron for your hard work.the scenery was beautiful😊!
BEAUTIFUL drone footage!!
Another INTRIGUING video, Ron!! XXXX ❤🤗💞💕👍👏
Ron so good to see you again. I love the old graveyards , the gravestones the iron rails are just amazing. So sad😢 that so many children and babies died. I thing you know Sue and GV in Ireland. I will never get there but I have seen Ireland through them and the cemeteries they find are just amazing every video. I really loved❤ this one . Thanx😊
Wow Ron what a lovely place and so much history. l myself love old cemeteries and towns here in Australia. Thanks again.
What a beautiful and old cemetery. The views are breathtaking. Love the stones with the explanations of their deaths. The sounds of the birds are so peaceful. Glad you are on your way back, missed you.
Hi Ron. This was sn awesome visit with miners. Stay safe. ❤❤❤
What a fantastic cemetery and beautiful surroundings ❤
Thank you for sharing this video 📹 its a very beautiful place to rest in peace. Have a good day from Northern British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦
Beautiful area...Thanks for sharing Ron......So many sad and interesting stories...❤
Thanks Ron. Love this video so much❤️You brought the old West back to life in all its rough, wild and passionate glory. Colorado Springs resident. When I was a kid my family moved to Colorado from Ohio. Everything felt so new and exotic at the time. ❤️
Endless adventures there in Colorado. You could spend a lifetime, heck you could spend 20 lifetime exploring. I’m envious
@@FacesoftheForgotten oh my gosh. 20 lifetimes🤗such an enchanting, magical comment. Probably so very much like those kind folk coming from Cornwall so full of hopeful expectation. I had a high school teacher who claimed to have seen Baby Doe Tabor when he was a kid. He said she was sitting on a rocker on a porch. He claimed his parents told him to always remember he saw Baby Doe Tabor. 🤗Interesting story❤️
Thank you Ron for sharing these great stories and beautiful cemetery. ❤
Thanks for the stories and the nice graves, looks like there is a lot more wow.
I live in Littleton Co. . I am glad you are enjoying our beautiful state. So much history. ❤
My grandparents, aunt and uncle and cousins lived in Colorado Springs so visited a lot and got to tour some of the other places and of course walk around on Pikes Peak. Loved it there. Very interesting cemetery, a lot of work was done to research and mark those graves so their stories could be told
That was fantastic so historic thanks Ron
Wow wonderful scenery. So nice to see you slowly coming back Ron 😁😁
What a beautiful little town, loved the mountains and the harsh life stories❤
Beautiful views of Colorado ,just so pretty ,you take care Ron and thanks for the journey with you
Beautiful, just beautiful
So, so interesting and beautiful and beautifully done. Thank you for an excellent video.
What a beautiful country love in the mountains and the scenery nice and Pearl
Great video, drone work, music Ron!! One of my favorite places in Colorado. Nice to see the cemetery is kept up and wow, so much history there. Thank you so much for this, Ron!
Very good show. Thank you.
The best so far. Really, totally the best!❤
That one was awesome, thank you so much for sharing this with us all. And all those that took the time to find information on the deceased and put headstones on each one they did.
Very rough times...thanks for taking time to bring us the stories, Ron. May they rest in peace 🙏