This essay engages with structures of public memory in the small town of Telluride in connection with larger historical patterns in Colorado and the American West. Exploring how white settler colonialism and consequent structures of white supremacy have manifested in processes of social reproduction, it uses an ethnographic approach to analyze historic structures, informational plaques, and memorials in Telluride. It concludes that Telluride has emphasized its mining history, excluding the Ute Native American Tribe from its public memory and, consequently erasing histories of violence and land dispossession.