In 2003, Dyson was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology in Telluride, Colorado.

This increased the number of people in Telluride, but it was still expensive to get gold-rich ore out of the valley.

The leader of the Telluride Miners ' Union was Vincent St. John.

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 ).

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

For a while the modern Telluride was living up to its Wild West history.

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.

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.

In the San Juan Mountains the major finds were at Ouray, Silverton, Mount Sneffels, and Telluride where over 10 million troy ounces ( 311 t ) of gold was mined.

The movie was first presented at the Telluride Film Festival in 1983, and its wide release was in January 1984.

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.

He was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology in August, 2006 in Telluride, Colorado, and in 2009 he was recognized as a Distinguished Engineer by the Association for Computing Machinery.

" Telluride ," a song originally recorded by Tim McGraw on his 2001 album Set This Circus Down, was released as the album's fifth and final single.

The association was named in 1910 by it founder Lucien Lucius Nunn for his city of residence, Telluride, Colorado.

The association is named after the town of Telluride, Colorado where L. L.

It is southwest of the town of Telluride and is named for a prominent rock formation that is said to look like a lizard's head.

In June 1889, Butch Cassidy, before becoming associated with his gang, " the wild bunch ", robbed the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride.

During the 1980s, Telluride developed a reputation for being " Colorado's best kept secret ", which paradoxically made it one of the more well-known resort communities.

*" 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

A think-tank of international academics meet annually in Telluride, Colorado to address this issue directly, and until recently, Mark Tilden has been part of this effort ( he had to withdraw due to his new commercial commitments with Wow-Wee toys ).

Nunn joined forces with Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse and built the Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant, the world's first commercial-grade alternating-current power plant, near Telluride.

Nunn developed a keen interest in education as part of his electrical power companies, and in conjunction with Cornell University built the Telluride House at Cornell in 1909 to educate promising students in electrical engineering.

Later, Nunn along with Charles Walcott, started the Telluride Association.

Each year the Telluride Tech Festival honors Nunn, Tesla, and Westinghouse, along with current day technology and science leaders.

The consolidation ended in 1953 with Idarado ’ s acquisition of the Telluride Mines.

Along with his mountain manager, Telluride native Bill " Sr ." Mahoney, they slowly and thoughtfully put together a plan for sustained development of Telluride and the region.

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

By the mid-1990s, Telluride had shed both its mining personality and drug image to establish itself as a premier resort town balancing modern culture with fascinating western history.

But when summer comes around, Telluride transforms into an outdoor recreation hot spot, with tourists visiting to enjoy a wide range of activities including but not limited to mountain biking, hiking, river rafting, sightseeing and more.

The bus system, called Galloping Goose, makes a complete loop around the town and the Gondola links Telluride with Mountain Village.

He conducted an onstage public " conversation " with Herzog at the Telluride Film Festival in 2004, after a screening of Herzog's film Invincible at the Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival.

The low point of the community came in 1974 with an estimated population of 45 ; since then the town has become a bedroom community for Telluride and has limited tourism and subdivisions ; the population has rebounded to almost 300.

Sharp, tetrahedral sphalerite crystals with minor associated chalcopyrite from the Idarado Mine, Telluride, Ouray District, Colorado, USA ( size: 2. 3 × 2. 3 × 1. 2 cm )

Although the courts eventually acquitted all union members charged with the bombing of the railroad station during the 1903-04 strike and awarded damages to those who had been deported, the strike and the union were broken in Cripple Creek ; similar measures were resorted to in Telluride, Colorado.

With Tesla and his patents, Westinghouse built a power system for a gold mine in Telluride, Colorado in 1891, with a water driven 100 horsepower ( 75 kW ) generator powering a 100 horsepower ( 75 kW ) motor over a 2. 5-mile ( 4 km ) power line.

Telluride Regional Airport is the destination in the " Telluride Landing " mission supplied with Microsoft Flight Simulator X.

This version was presented at the Telluride Film Festival in August 1979, with the frail 89-year old director in attendance.

It rises in the San Juan Mountains southeast of Telluride and flows northwest, along the southern slope of the Uncompahgre Plateau, past the towns of Placerville and Nucla and joins the Dolores in western Montrose County approximately 15 miles ( 24 km ) east of the state line with Utah.

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.

CTEC's growing reputation combined with the European ownership and parts supply of Garaventa allowed it to win contracts for large lifts such as the Gold Coast Funitel at Squaw Valley, Placer County, California, gondolas at Telluride Ski Resort and Vail Ski Resort, and Steamboat Springs Ski Resort in Colorado, and Deer Valley, Utah,.