Crime https://breckhistory.org/tag/crime/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 20:22:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://breckhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-BreckHistoryLogo-1-jpg-32x32.webp Crime https://breckhistory.org/tag/crime/ 32 32 Louis Ford: Part 3 – The Final Years https://breckhistory.org/louis-ford-the-final-years/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=louis-ford-the-final-years Wed, 27 Apr 2022 03:04:58 +0000 https://breckhistory.org/louis-ford-the-final-years/ Louis Ford, son of respected businessman and entrepreneur Barney L. Ford, chooses a life of crime in Part 3 of this series.

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]]> Louis Ford: Part 2 – Falls far from the Family Tree https://breckhistory.org/louis-ford-part-2-falls-far-from-the-family-tree/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=louis-ford-part-2-falls-far-from-the-family-tree Sat, 16 Apr 2022 02:06:59 +0000 https://breckhistory.org/louis-ford-part-2-falls-far-from-the-family-tree/ Louis Ford is accused of theft by a client at the Cheyenne hotel owned by his well-respected father, Barney L. Ford.

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]]> Governance in Early Breckenridge https://breckhistory.org/the-history-of-breckenridge-co-governance-in-early-breckenridge/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-history-of-breckenridge-co-governance-in-early-breckenridge Fri, 08 Apr 2022 16:58:59 +0000 https://breckhistory.org/?p=405 When the first prospectors and miners arrived in what would become Summit County, no legal or governmental structure existed--no federal, state, county or town governments, no sets of laws--to guide their interactions.  This lack of a structure presented problems.  How did one file a claim?  How did one keep others from stealing that claim?  How could disagreements be settled?  To alleviate the problem, miners and prospectors adopted an idea used in California--the mining district.

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