L.L. Nunn, Pinheads, and the birth of the Western power grid
An electrifying piece of San Juan Mountain history
On a summer’s day in 1881, a 28-year-old named Lucien L. Nunn set off for Telluride from Durango with his friend and business partner Malachi Kinney. They were on foot, carrying everything they owned on their backs, not because they were some kind of early day ultra-athletes, but because they couldn’t afford a single horse.
When Nunn made the 70-mile tr…
