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Penelope Eberhart talks about her father Harry Brown’s introduction to oil shale while on a family vacation in Denver in the 1920’s, his subsequent move to the De Beque area on the Western Slope, and his early business venture in oil shale with the Index Oil Shale Company. She speaks about the mining and milling process for shale, and about a biproduct of the milling process marketed as plant fertilizer called Index Soil Vitalizer. She talks about...
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Charles Burg tells stories from his father about his interactions with the Ute during a US Army deployment near Montrose, Colorado. He talks about settlers and ranchers of the De Beque area, including Dave Knight, a Cherokee from Oklahoma who utilized native plants in a traditional way. He describes a “garter” brand on a horse, horse breaking techniques for wild horses, the origins of the wild horse population in the Bookcliffs, stray cattle gone...
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An inventor, early miner, and processor of oil shale in Western Colorado. He was born in Heights Town, New Jersey to George Edward Brown and Sarah Catherine (Stoney) Brown. His father was a blacksmith and his mother was a homemaker. He married Penelope Chase Hamilton on April 18, 1908. They had a daughter, Penelope, and a son, Harry.
The 1910 US Census shows him working as a tobacco salesman. According to his daughter Penelope, he then owned a...
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He was born in Morristown, Ohio on March 28, 1866. He came to Colorado in 1887 and was married in 1896 to Jennie L. Harris. Joseph worked as a carpenter building houses and started a store for the railroad in De Beque.
He ranched on Plateau Creek beginning in 1904, purchasing the homestead of his father-in-law, John Jackson. Their land later became known as the Harris Ranch. The ranch was a farm, a ranch, inn, restaurant, and place to rest teams...
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He was born in Newark, New Jersey to Harry Lewis Brown and Penelope Chase (Hamilton) Brown. His father was the owner of a Wrigley chewing gum factory and his mother was a homemaker and later worked for the family business. The family moved to the Roan Canyon area near De Beque in 1921, where his father owned and operated the Index Oil Shale Company. He graduated from high school in Denver and later worked as an analyst for the company. He had a cabin...
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A utility service that generates distributes and sells electricity in Colorado. Currently, it's a subsidiary of Xcel Energy.
According to William "Bill" Rump, his father Charles Rump served as the local manager in the 1920's or 1930's. According to longtime employee Robert Gustafson, the company consisted of different divisions organized by region. By 1945, when Gustafson was office manager of the Grand Junction division (formed in the late 1920’s...
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J.W. Latham describes his career of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad near Grand Junction, Colorado, including the run from Grand Junction to Minturn, his work as fireman, and different steam engines used. He also talks about the pack of grey wolves that lived in the Bookcliffs near De Beque in the early 1920’s, and touches on the sheep and cattlemen wars. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa...
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He came to Grand Junction in 1882 or 1883. Despite being young, jobless, and broke, Edwin Price offered him a job with his newspaper, the Grand Junction News. Quickly, Kingsley became the newspaper's editor. He married Mary Kingsley, daughter of the president of the New York Life Insurance Company. His father-in-law offered him a position at the New York Life Insurance Company, and he later became president of New York Life, a position he held...
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During episodes of the radio show Pioneer Reviews, which aired on KFXJ in the 1960’s (now KREX), Mesa County farm agent and host Dick Woodfin speaks with several Western Slope residents about pioneer history. Interviewees include Ed Finley of De Beque, Walter Rhodes of Doyleville, Gerald V. Gimple of Clifton, Ellen (White) Kirby of Fruita, Clyde Buffington of Gunnison, and Catherine Moore of Glade Park. These broadcasts are made available via signed...
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Joseph Egger talks about life in the Grand Valley when he arrived in 1891. He describes the lack of a bridge over the Colorado River between Grand Junction and De Beque, and the ferry that crossed the river in Palisade. He discusses soil quality and the history of agriculture in different parts of the valley, and traces early agriculture in the eastern end of the valley to coal miners. He also talks about the Taylor Grazing Act, trying to sell butter...
91) Glen Edwin Brunk
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He was born in Missouri to Charles Assa Brunk and Minnie Alice (Weaver) Brunk. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. The family moved to Mesa County, Colorado and settled in Orchard Mesa in 1908, when Glen was six years old. There, the family farmed fruit.
Glen attended Grand Junction High School. He then received education in highway engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and geometrical drawing from his positions with...
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Dick Lloyd talks about cattle ranching in Western Colorado both before and after the Taylor Grazing Act, about moving cattle around to different grazing areas in Colorado, and about shipping them to Denver by rail via the De Beque Stockyard. He speaks about training horses and using horses to herd cattle. Bertha Lloyd discusses her courtship with Dick, their chivaree and their marriage. The two of them describe homesteading in a log cabin on the Grand...
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In an interview from May 14, 1981 (audio only, no transcript), Basil T. Knight talks about his youth in Michigan, meeting his wife’s family in Palisade, Colorado and ultimately moving there, operating a fruit farm, and becoming a lifelong teacher and school administrator. He explains the mechanisms that originally funded the many smaller school districts on the Western Slope, including taxes on railroads, and the reasons for the consolidation that...
94) Dave Knight
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According to oral history interviewee Charles Burg, who broke horses with Knight and camped with him, Knight’s mother was a Cherokee Indian from Oklahoma, and he continued with many traditional ways, including use of the soap weed’s root as a dishrag, and the use of a “stockade” corral constructed from horizontal and vertical poles. He also used Mormon Tea to brew a kind of tea. Burg describes Knight as tall and dark with black hair. He probably...
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Walter Flasche talks about his birth in Nebraska and moving to De Beque, Colorado with his parents via covered wagon around 1908. He remembers life in the Roan Creek area, severe drought and heavy snows. He recalls battles between cattle ranchers and sheep ranchers in the area. He speaks about his work as a logger and his work in the nascent oil shale industry. He describes how hard the life of a rancher and oil shale worker was, and how his wife...
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He was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to Charles and Susan M. Burg. His father was in a US Army regiment stationed in Montrose, Colorado to monitor the Ute in the late 19th century, and Charles Edward grew up hearing stories about the Ute. He grew up on a cattle ranch on the Roan Creek, near De Beque, and later became a cowboy and horse breaker himself, working with people such as Dave Knight and his half-brother, Charley Chittenden. He also bought...
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She was born to David J. Hamilton and Alice E. (Willett) Hamilton in Perth Ambry, New Jersey and baptized on March 5, 1899. Her father was a broker and later, a telegraph man for the railroad. Her mother was a homemaker.
She married Harry Lewis Brown on April 18, 1908. They moved to Glen Reach, New Jersey where they had a daughter, Penelope, and a son, Harry. They moved to Colorado in the early part of the 1920’s, following her husband, who...
98) John Jackson
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He was born in Iowa. Around 1856, he took a job driving a stagecoach between Independence Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He joined the 1st Colorado Cavalry Regiment in 1861, under the command of Colonel John M. Chivington. During his tenure in the regiment, Jackson took part in the Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people, and also fought in the Battle of Glorieta Pass, where he engaged the Confederates at Apache Canyon. He moved to...
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Al Look talks about geologic formations in De Beque Canyon and about the first aerial photographs taken of the Grand Mesa. Margaret (Langen) Look speaks about air travel to Boulder, Colorado in the 1920’s. Al Look speaks about the publication of his book, Hopi Snake Dance, and about the return of his son from World War II. He describes his work with different people on archaeological and paleontological digs, and touches on the vandalism of certain...
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Howard Shults talks about life growing up in Collbran, Colorado in the early Twentieth century, including farming, local schools and his father’s teaching career in “trouble” schools, local people, and his juvenile hijinks. He also discusses breaking horses, “leaded horses” exposed to the pesticide lead arsenic, wild horses, raising and driving hogs from Collbran to De Beque, and winning the Ft. Logan Military Training School boxing championship....
