Long idle parts of the giant Colorado Fuel and Iron steel mill, founded in 1881, in Pueblo, Colorado. The company was founded by Cleve Osgood, a New York "robber baron," as titans of industry were then known. In his private rail car, he traveled to and from his New York home to the Colorado mountains, where he built the "company town" of Redstone, near which his workers made coke to fuel his Pueblo plant, which was the only steel mill west of the Mississippi. Osgood later sold the company to the heirs of John D. Rockefeller and Jay Gould, who controlled the company for years. While it came to control many plants throughout the country, its main plant was a steel mill on the south side of Pueblo, Colorado and was the city's main industry for most of its history. From 1901 to 1912, Colorado Fuel and Iron was one of the Dow Jones Industrials. The steel-market crash of 1982 lead to the decline of the company. After going through several bankruptcies, the company was acquired by Oregon Steel Mills in 1993, and changed its name to Rocky Mountain Steel Mills. In January 2007, along with the rest of Oregon Steel's holdings, was acquired by EVRAZ Group SA, a Russian steel corporation, for $2.3 billion. As of 2015, EVRAZ was still making railroad rails in newer parts of the giant mill complex that were still in operation. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2015.