Bulkeley Wells, a Telluride mining company president and manager who was " born to privilege ... was convinced laborers were beneath him ," was intent upon hanging St. John.

Telluride is mentioned in the song " Smuggler's Blues " by Glenn Frey, and is the subject of and eponymous songs by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1985, Kate Wolf, and Tim McGraw in 2001, which was re-recorded by Josh Gracin in 2008.

*" Telluride ", a song by Tim McGraw from his sixth studio album, Set This Circus Down ( 2001 )

*" Telluride ", a song from Josh Gracin's second studio album, We Weren't Crazy ( 2008 ); a cover of the Tim McGraw song of the same name

Telluride was originally named " Columbia ", but due to confusion with Columbia, California, the name was changed by the post office in 1887.

* Independent films: In the US, Telluride Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, Austin's South by Southwest, New York City's Tribeca Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival are all considered significant festivals for independent film.

* June 21 – First long-distance transmission of alternating current by the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado, by Lucien and Paul Nunn.

The town is served by air transportation via Telluride Regional Airport ( TEX ), the highest altitude commercial airport in the United States.

Mining was Telluride ’ s only industry until 1972, when the first ski lift was installed by Telluride Ski Resort founder Joseph T. Zoline and his Telluride Ski Corporation ( Telco ).

A view in Telluride from the ski slopes by Mountain Village.

In 1978, a stake of the ski area was purchased by Ron Allred and his partner Jim Wells to form the Telluride Company.

The new owners expanded the infrastructure which Zoline had put into place by adding a gondola connecting Telluride with the Mountain Village.

Telluride boasts of a free box that is well supported by the community.

Telluride is served by Telluride Regional Airport.

Telluride was the subject of an essay by Edward Abbey, and Modern Telluride is the setting of Raymond H. Ring's 1988 detective novel Telluride Smile.

Mining operators in the San Juan mountain area of Colorado formed the San Juan District Mining Association ( SJDMA ) in 1903, as a direct result of a Western Federation of Miners proposal to the Telluride Mining Association for the eight hour day, which had been approved in a referendum by 72 percent of Colorado voters.

Mining operators in the San Juan mountain area of Colorado formed the San Juan District Mining Association ( SJDMA ) in 1903, as a direct result of a Western Federation of Miners proposal to the Telluride Mining Association for the eight hour day, which had been approved in a referendum by 72 percent of Colorado voters.

Mining operators in the San Juan mountain area of Colorado formed the San Juan District Mining Association ( SJDMA ) in 1903, as a direct result of a Western Federation of Miners proposal to the Telluride Mining Association for the eight hour day, which had been approved in a referendum by 72 percent of Colorado voters.

The development of the area was spurred by the discovery of large silver deposits near Rico in 1879, and the Rio Grande Southern Railroad was constructed through the County to connect Durango, Telluride, and Ridgway in 1890-92 The RGS served the eastern end of Dolores County until 1952 when it was abandoned.

A view of a mountain while driving above Telluride on one of its many trails.

The Telluride Historic District, which includes a significant portion of the town, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is also one of Colorado's 20 National Historic Landmarks.

Meanwhile ski area founder Joe Zoline worked hard to put Telluride on the map, developing one of the best mountains in North America for expert skiers and creating infrastructure for tourism which respected Telluride's need to stay small and beautiful.

Telluride and the area surrounding it has had a notable effect on pop culture.

He performed at the Bonnaroo Music Festival on June 15, 2008, and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival on June 22, 2008, and for the first time in his career at England's Glastonbury Festival on June 29, 2008.

He continued to work on ranches until 1884, when he moved to Telluride, Colorado, ostensibly to seek work but perhaps to deliver stolen horses to buyers.

Parker, Warner and two of the McCarty Brothers were responsible for the robbery, on June 24, 1889, of the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride in which they stole approximately $ 21, 000, after which they fled to the Robbers Roost, a remote hideout in southeastern Utah.

They were married on December 22, 1994, in Telluride, Colorado near the area where they were both in a helicopter crash in March 1994.

David Lavender was born and raised on a cattle ranch 20 miles north of Telluride, Colorado, then a fading mining town.

Leftover Salmon marked their unofficial return to the stage with a performance at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival on Sunday, June 24, 2007, as " Drew Emmitt and Vince Herman and Friends.

Shattered Glass premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was shown at the Telluride Film Festival, the Boston Film Festival, the Woodstock Film Festival, the Mill Valley Film Festival, and the Austin Film Festival before opening on eight screens in New York City and Los Angeles on October 31, 2003.

It was also shown at the Moscow Film Festival, the Edinburgh Film Festival, the Telluride Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Athens Film Festival before going into theatrical release in the UK on 26 September 2003.

In 1992, Cuban novelist Guillermo Cabrera Infante, the guest co-director of the Telluride Film Festival, screened a print of the film at the festival as part of a retrospective on Kalatazov.

Black Bear Road, officially Forest Service Road 648, is a notorious jeep trail that starts from summit of Red Mountain Pass on U. S. Highway 550 ( between Ouray and Silverton ) to Telluride, Colorado.

" Hitchens was subsequently invited to appear on Joe Scarborough's MSNBC talk show, Scarborough Country, at which point a tape recording of his debate with Moore at the Telluride Film Festival in 2002 was replayed.

Telluride is well-situated on the international film festival calendar for this: shortly after the Cannes Film Festival, but just before the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival.

" Kenneth Turan, film critic of the Los Angeles Times, sums up the positions in his chapter on the festival in his book From Sundance to Sarajevo by saying that " the hothouse filmocentric universe Telluride creates over a Labor Day weekend has always been more a religion than anything as ordinary as a festival, complete with messianic believers and agnostic scoffers.

Everyday premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 3 2012 and will next screen at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2012.

Moseley married Malia Rich, a business manager, on March 25, 2006, in Telluride, Colorado.

While a student at USC, he appeared on The New Dating Game, winning a trip to Telluride, Colorado.

Leigh has received three separate career tributes — at the Telluride Film Festival in 1993, a special award for her contribution to independent cinema from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2002, and a week-long retrospective showing of her film work held by the American Cinematheque at Los Angeles ' Egyptian Theatre in 2001.

* Was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology in 2001.

In 2001, he was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology in Telluride, Colorado.

The Black Bear Sessions was released to the public in June 2001, one week before their appearance at Telluride.