A rare large-format photo of a bustling scene outside of P.Y. Thomas's grocery store in the gold mining town of Kokomo, Colorado. The photo shows Thomas's wagon loaded with supplies, a miner and his pack-mule, four boys posed playfully on the roof of the shop, and numerous other colorful characters, including a lone woman. Interestingly, the word "liquors" has been whited-out from the store's signage, possibly done when the image was reproduced in some capacity.

Kokomo was the center of activity in what came to be known as the Tenmile District. Significant silver deposits were discovered in the Tenmile Valley in the summer of 1878 and by 1881 the town had over ten thousand inhabitants. But in the winter of that year, most of the hastily built, wooden structures of Kokomo were destroyed in a devastating fire. What left of it merged with the neighboring town of Recen (sometimes spelled Racen). Now both are ghost towns.