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21) John A. Wilcoxon
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An early Twentieth century Mesa County with a large operation near De Beque. According to oral history interviewee Charles Edward Burg, who worked for him, the bunks Wilcoxon provided for cowboys were infested with bed bugs.
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She was born on a farm on Rhone Creek in Garfield County, Colorado. Her mother died in 1896, when Pearl was four, and she moved with her father and siblings to De Beque, Colorado in 1900. She married Paul Peysert in 1913. He passed away in 1920. She later remarried to a farm laborer named Ernest Redmon in 1924. She was a postal clerk for the Post Office in De Beque for thirty years.
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Grace Kistler talks about her childhood in rural Missouri and Pueblo, Colorado, and about her four marriages. She also describes life in De Beque, Colorado in the 1920’s and 30’s, and her husband’s roll in the construction of the road through De Beque Canyon. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado and the Mesa County Historical Society.
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Lulu Kennon grew up on a farm in DeBeque, Colorado. She graduated from a high school in Denver in 1914, and began substitute teaching. She attended college in Greeley for one year and finished her Bachelor's degree by correspondence. She taught school in DeBeque, Colorado for twelve years. For her first year, she taught in a country school before local ranchers, who had wanted the school built elsewhere, burnt down the school. She quit teaching...
25) Leo I. Ryan
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After moving with his family to Plateau Valley in 1907-08, he held the delivery contract with the creamery in Collbran. He delivered dairy products via a stagecoach line to De Beque. He also delivered mail along the route from Collbran to De Beque. With his wife Nelle Ryan, he owned and operated the Plateau City House, a hotel in Plateau City. Father of Lawrence Ryan.
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A farmer and resident of De Beque, Colorado. With his team of horses and a plow, he helped to build the current road through De Beque Canyon. He was also a construction foreman for Henry Shores, a contractor in Moab, Utah. His first wife was Leta M. Franklin, with whom he had four children. He was remarried to Grace (Harty) Kestler, then Grace Canfield, in 1928. Born 1882. Brother of James B. “Jim” Franklin. Son of James R. Franklin and Sarah...
27) Herb Brink
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Herb Brink was an outlaw hired by the Cattlemen's Association in Wyoming to murder sheepherders. he was caught and sentenced for a year or two in Rollins, Wyoming, then moved to Kimball Creek in De Beque. All the children were afraid of seeing him in the town square because of his intimidating presence and the crimes he was known to have committed.
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William Dinkel was a pioneer known as the "Father of Carbondale" who settled Carbondale, Colorado in 1881 and partnered with Dr. W.A.E. de Beque to run the Shale Oil Syndicate, a company formed to locate and patent shale oil claims on Western Slope.
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He was a veterinarian in Grand Junction and De Beque, Colorado. He was born in Denver, Colorado to Barney L. Whatley, an attorney, and Gertrude (Thielen) Whatley, a homemaker with a college degree. US Census records from 1930 and 1940 show him living there at the ages of 3 and 13. He attended Colorado State University (then Colorado State College of Agriculture) in 1927, where he received his veterinary degree. He practiced as a veterinarian in both...
30) George F. Newton
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George F. Newton was a rancher from De Beque, Colorado who partnered with Dr. W.A.E. de Beque to run the Shale Oil Syndicate, a company formed to locate and patent shale oil claims on Western Slope. He also served as the Garfield County Commissioner. According to the Daily Sentinel, he suffered with ill health near the end of his life and moved to the northwest United States around 1923 because of his condition. He passed away on October 20, 1927...
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He was born in Stratton, Nebraska to Freidrich Wilhelm “William” Flasche and Marie Katherine “Mary” (Vatz) Flasche. Census records indicate that his father was an immigrant from Germany, and that his mother immigrated from a German settlement in Russia. They were farmers. According to Walter, his father had two wives and families, with one in Germany.
The 1900 US Census shows Walter living with his parents and siblings in Burntwood, Kansas...
32) Shake Gilman
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With Mattie Gilman, one-half of a De Beque area couple who dressed like wild-west characters, raised ponies, and used to come into town and buy ice cream for children. They enjoyed getting drunk and shooting their guns, until Mattie accidentally shot and killed Shake. Mattie then went to prison for a year for her crime.
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He was born in Aurora, Colorado to George Franklin Weaver and Susan Henderson Weaver. He was a farmer. He married Frieda Waver in 1941. They Farmed in Elk Springs. He had to quit farming due to his arthritis, and went to work as a janitor in a uranium mill, a job he kept for eight years. The family came to De Beque in 1960.
34) Ralph Galyean
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He was born in Nebraska to Henry and Laura Galyean and came to De Beque, Colorado in 1906, at the age of 3. There, his father managed a farm. Ralph went to school at the Old Rock School House through the 7th Grade. He was 6'4" and played basketball against area teams for his school. He was a farmer.
35) Walt Carmack
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He was a cowboy who worked in the Plateau Valley area of Mesa County. According to oral history interviewee Walter “Dick” Lloyd, who worked with Carmack, he worked primarily running cattle in the area of Sunnyside Road between Collbran and De Beque. Lloyd also states that Carmack was “an awful boozer at times back in bootleg times,” but that he quit drinking.
36) George McGarvey
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A man accused of rape who escaped from the Mesa County Jail by slamming a 2x4 over the head of deputy Ed Innis when Innis was bringing inmates their dinner. McGarvey stole Innis’s gun and ran. Officers captured him near De Beque on October 1, 1906, and he was sentenced to hanging three days later (Mesa County Historical Society newsletter, May-June 1983).
37) Mattie Gilman
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With Shake Gilman, one-half of a De Beque area couple who dressed like wild-west characters, raised ponies, and used to come into town and buy ice cream for children. They enjoyed getting drunk and shooting their guns, until Mattie accidentally shot and killed Shake. Mattie then went to prison for a year for her crime.
38) Albert Humeston
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He was born in Humeston, Iowa. He married Ida Van Derley on June 25, 1902, and they moved to Collbran, Colorado in February of 1903. He worked as a merchant with Emerson Collins, where he hired a freighter to bring regular shipments of stock from the DeBeque railroad station to his shop. He also worked as the postmaster of Collbran (a post he held for 28 years -- 1913-1941). He was a member of the Disciples of Christ, and a member of a barbershop...
39) Austin Corcoran
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He was born in Pennsylvania, and came to Grand Junction in 1883. He was a cattle rancher who operated a ranch above De Beque on the Grand Mesa. His wife and children stayed with him on the ranch during the summers, and in Grand Junction during the rest of the year. In 1920, he sold out of cattle ranching and became a writer. He wrote articles for a Los Angeles newspaper as well as poems and books.
40) Frank Hickman
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He was born in England and immigrated to the United States, living first in Pennsylvania, where he was a coal miner. He worked in coal mines in the Crested Butte, Colorado area, and then moved to Mesa County. He started the first coal mine in the Grand Valley. He ran the Cameo Mine and the Mount Lincoln Mine, the latter being one of the first coal mines in the Grand Valley. He also established the Island Ranch in De Beque Canyon, current location...
