Mancos 1884: The big snow and other travails

Mancos 1884: The big snow and other travails

James Martin Rush Jr. recounts the big snow and the travails of the canyon and Four Corners
In 1896, James Martin Rush Jr. moved to Dolores with his wife’s brother, William Exon, to run a store and meat market. Upstairs was the lodge room for the Silver Star Lodge No. 105 of the Knights of Pythias and the Pythian Sisters. He finished it in 1907.
The Dolores Meat Market.

Mancos 1884: The big snow and other travails

In 1896, James Martin Rush Jr. moved to Dolores with his wife’s brother, William Exon, to run a store and meat market. Upstairs was the lodge room for the Silver Star Lodge No. 105 of the Knights of Pythias and the Pythian Sisters. He finished it in 1907.
The Dolores Meat Market.
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