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Explore Colorado’s past through the archives, artifacts, and photographs of the History Colorado Collection.

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The 10th Mountain Division, a full division of the United States Army, specializing in mountain and winter warfare, trained at Camp Hale, Colorado, during World War II.

Experienced in skiing, mountaineering, and cold-weather survival as well as military tactics, the soldiers fought enemy forces in the Italian Campaign of 1945. Dubbed the “ski troops” by the press, the 10th Mountain Division remains the only military division recruited by a civilian organization, the National Ski Patrol. Many 10th Mountain veterans contributed greatly to the development of the recreational ski industry in the United States and to the growth of related fields such as outdoor equipment development, recreation, and nature conservation.

In 1987, the National Association of the 10th Mountain Division, consisting of alumni of the World War II division, designated History Colorado and the Denver Public Library Western History Department as joint repositories of their historical materials. Among the contributions to the History Colorado collection are skis, boots, uniforms, climbing equipment, weaponry, war souvenirs, and a snow cat.

Found 23 record(s)

Object Name	Title	Object ID
armband	US Army Medic Armband of Francis W. "Bud" Lovett, 85th Mountain Infantry Regiment	88.405.1
Rucksack	Rucksack Used by 2nd Lt. Leonard B. Sutton at Camp Hale, Colorado	89.148.2
stove	Stove, Cooking, Gasoline, M1942, 1 Burner ; Type 2 mountain stove	89.666.56
Mountain Brush	Brush, Mountain Stock No. 74-B-791 ; Snow broom	89.678.4
compass	Lensatic Compass and Carrying Case of Raymond C. Richardson, 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment	89.678.6
Fez	Benito Mussolini's fez	90.117.1
Sweater	Sweater, Highneck Stock No. 55-S-64234--55-S-64252 ; US Army fatigue sweater	91.80.2
Lip balm	Chapstick Carried by Capt. Albert H. Jackman, 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment	91.417.9
Ice Ax	Austrian Ice Ax Taken as War Booty by James A. Scales, 85th Mountain Infantry Regiment	92.397.1
Telephone	EE-8-A ; US Army Field Telephone Used by Headquarters Company, 85th Mountain Infantry Regiment	93.515.1
Climbing Rope	85th Mountain Infantry Ice and Glacier Climbing School rope	94.63.1
Crampon, pair	Eckenstein design crampons	94.63.2
bayonet, Scabbard	US Model M1 Garand Bayonet with Scabbard of Charles "Charlie" Darby Hunt	95.208.4
pack frame	Pack Frame Used by Lt. Adrian J. Durant Jr., 604th Field Artillery Battalion	95.293.4
Flare Gun	Flare Gun Used by Troops of the 10th Mountain Division to Celebrate V-E Day	95.300.2.A
flag	Nazi Banner Captured by Bert Fein, 86th Mountain Infantry Regiment	97.76.1
knife	Knife Issued to Ed Kysar for the Assault on Kiska, Aleutian Islands Campaign	97.117.1
pistol	German Luger P08 (Parabellum) and Holster Taken as War Booty by Sol Gutow, 605th Field Artillery Battalion	97.247.4
Fencing foil	Foil of Benito Mussolini, Presented by His Fencing Instructor Camillo Rodolfi, and Taken as War Booty by Ben Kovach, 85th Mountain Infantry Division	99.11.1
bracelet, identification	Identification Bracelet of US Army Medic Francis W. "Bud" Lovett, 85th Mountain Infantry Regiment	2001.105.8
pillow cover	Souvenir Pillow Cover Featuring Camp Hale, Colorado	2001.165.2
Goggles, Snow	Goggles, Ski-Mountain; Stock No. 74-G-79 ; Ski-Mountain Goggles of Robert A. Huddleston, 86th Mountain Infantry Regiment	2009.32.1.1
flag	Japanese Flag Taken from Kiska by John Daily, 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment	TMD.45.1

History Colorado’s responsibility as a museum organization includes rectifying, reconciling, and uplifting underrepresented stories, objects, people, and places. Some of the materials in our collection reflect positions, norms, and values that are no longer—or never were—consistent with those of History Colorado (formerly the Colorado Historical Society) or its staff. We do not endorse prejudiced, stereotyped, or offensive material in our collection and actively work to place those items in context and with interpretation from our communities, as they are an important resource in the study of past and contemporary cultures. For more about how History Colorado does this work, see the History Colorado Anti-Racism Grounding Virtues statement.

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