Word: durango
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...location in Durango, Colo., Cinemactress Anne Baxter panned for gold in the Las Animas River, found none, but lost her gold wedding ring in the process...
Toothache. In Durango, Colo., Mrs. W. J. Wellman, an automobile accident victim, went home from the hospital, felt a pain in her hand a few days later, consulted the doctor, who fixed things by extracting one of her missing teeth from her thumb...
...Bishop of Durango?" added Maria de Allande...
...missionary sighed. "Your Eminence, the Bishop of Durango is an old man; and from his seat to Santa Fe is a distance of 1,500 English miles. There are no wagon roads, no canals, no navigable rivers. Trade is carried on by means of pack-mules, over treacherous trails. . . . The Vicariate of New Mexico will be in a few years raised to an Episcopal See, with jurisdiction over a country larger than Central and Western Europe, barring Russia. The Bishop of that See will direct the. beginning of momentous things...
Indeed momentous were the beginnings made by the missionary of whom Author Gather wrote, Father John B. Lamy. He became Santa Fe's first bishop (in 1875 its first archbishop), mightily revived Catholicism's failing strength in the Southwest. Unlike the Bishop of Durango, he did not neglect the outlying parts of his jurisdiction. To Colorado in 1860 he sent another famed pioneer Catholic, Father Joseph P. Macheboeuf, first Bishop of Denver when it was still a village...