Initiation to Robbery

Butch Cassidy’s first bank robbery of the San Miguel Valley Bank on the northwest corner of Colorado Avenue and Pine in Telluride, Colorado, garnered a lengthy recounting on page two of the July 18, 1889, local Delta Independent newspaper. A year later, the original bank was destroyed in a fire and replaced in 1890 with Mahr Building, which has a plaque on the outside that commemorates the legendary robbery.– Photo Courtesy True