People

: William Lefare; Murderer of cattle rancher E.T. Massey. The murder occurred on the Uncompahgre Plateau.

: William Lyon Wood; He was born in Pueblo, Colorado to David and Fannie Wood. US Census records show the family living in Ouray, Colorado in 1900 and 1910, when William was 6 and 16 years old, respectively. William Wood was the editor of the Durango Herald contemporaneously to Rod Day's tenure at the rival newspaper, the Durango Democrat, a morning daily (published 1899-1928). According to Al Look, who worked for the rival Durango Herald at that time, Day was hospitalized for delirium tremens. The publisher of the Herald, McDevitt, ordered his staff not to write about Day's alcoholism. Wood ignored this direction and published an editorial about Day's hospital stay and the reason for it. Unbeknownst to Wood, Day had been released from the hospital on the day the editorial was published. When Day saw Wood on Main Street in Durango, he shot Wood in the back of the head as he was crawling away.

: William M. Dinkel; William Dinkel was a pioneer known as the "Father of Carbondale" who settled Carbondale, Colorado in 1881 and partnered with Dr. W.A.E. de Beque to run the Shale Oil Syndicate, a company formed to locate and patent shale oil claims on Western Slope.

: William Maroney; Early resident of Crested Butte, Colorado. Died in the Jokerville Mine Explosion on January 24, 1884.

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