Colorado Experience: The Lost Irish Miners of Leadville 

Ireland is amazing. Your comment caught my eye, as I've been trying to study more of my family history. I couldn't find much on the manure issue, nor was I familiar with that being the cause. I wanted to share what I believe to be the most widely accepted causes. ( In brief: a Blight Infection, lack of help from the new British Regime, & too much dependence on one crop.) "The proximate cause of the famine was the infection of potato crops by blight (Phytophthora infestans)[13] throughout Europe during the 1840s. Blight infection caused 100,000 deaths outside Ireland and influenced much of the unrest that culminated in European Revolutions of 1848.[14] Longer-term reasons for the massive impact of this particular famine included the system of absentee landlordism[15][16] and single-crop dependence. Initial limited but constructive government actions to alleviate famine distress were ended by a new Whig administration in London, which pursued a laissez-faire economic doctrine, but also because some in power believed in divine providence or that the Irish lacked moral character,[19][20] with aid only resuming to some degree later. Large amounts of food were exported from Ireland during the famine and the refusal of London to bar such exports, as had been done on previous occasions, was an immediate and continuing source of controversy, contributing to anti-British sentiment and the campaign for independence."

Yeah I've been in that store. Use to have his "loaded dice" in the window. Lived in the Ville for 10 yrs. Lots of history.

Rumor has it, he was dying of tuberculosis and couldn't afford his $1 a month rent. A hotshot thought he could take him but the old dentist was still quicker😉

Alan Scott , How did it wander off track?

Most of all the natives, especially Utes, who called Leadville home on their seasonal trips. Now Texans fill that gap LOL.

Watch the end ❤

Hahahaha! The Irish and "Mexicans" went to the same church. We still do, even if it's because our grandmothers make us.

Being a relative of a Leadville miner I can tell you that they had very little in the way of convenience and everything was the companies. The hours were 14 hours if you wanted to keep ahead of the debt you owed the company for food clothing tools carbide and shack housing. Of which because of the poor construction many burned down. They lost three children due to a fire in their row. While the mine owners lived in extravagant homes. Unless you have real knowledge of the conditions these people had to endure just to feed their families you have no basis for slagging them. It was on their blood sweat and tears this country was built.

Sounds as if you, like all human beings, have some predjucies of your own. It's all about economics, clawing you way to the table for a piece of the pie.

Watch to the end. Then you'll get it 😊

Were the Irish forcibly removed and put into slavery before 1700? I'm Irish, born in Leadville. I'm white. Nobody has ever looked at me sideways because I have an Irish heritage. People of color are still marginalized. Yes, the Irish were treated horribly as new immigrants, but the white skin gives you a pass today. Racism still exists, and it is based on color. Have you personally ever been marginalized for being Irish?

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Yes Rob. Yes they were.

It is such a shame that people are ignorant of history. Black slaves were brought to this continent with the Jamestown settlement. They were not paid for their labor. Minors were horrible treated and paid very minimally but ultimately free to leave. It is unfortunate that seeing one group enslaved and other groups mistreated and discriminated against can't both be declared as true and wrong. The Irish were able to rise above and overcome the marginalization largely because they were viewed as white. Unfortunately the legacy of racism towards blacks continues.