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She was born in Buena Vista, Colorado to Thomas Henry Price and Flora (Hill) Price. Her father was a Union veteran of the Civil War, house painter, and wallpaper hanger. Her mother was a homemaker and an accomplished seemstress who made all of the family’s clothes.
The family moved to New Castle, Colorado sometime between 1900 and 1903. The family stayed in New Castle for two years, then moved to De Beque, where they lived on a 160 acre homestead....
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A company established in 1921 by Harry Lewis Brown, who had sold his Wrigley’s chewing gum factory in New Jersey in order to fund the venture, reportedly starting with an initial capital investment of $100,000. The company’s first mine was based above the Roan Creek Valley, half a mile from the eventual placement of the Roan Creek Community Hall. The company mined the oil shale from Mount Blaine (also known as Mount Index). A tramway brought the...
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A district that began in 1883, shortly after the formation of Mesa County from territory that had previously belonged to Gunnison County. Previous to the official creation of the district, the first school board was elected on June 1, 1882, before the Grand Junction City Government had even been elected. Harrison Edward Stroud, W.M. McKelvey, and O.D. Russell were members of the first board. Stroud served as the superintendent of schools (1881).
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104) Hugh R. Jones
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He was born to William William Jones and Jannie E. (Sluder) Jones in Bucklin, Kansas. His father was a farmer and Welsh immigrant. His mother was a homemaker born in Missouri. He attended the Eagle School in Bucklin from grades 1 to 8. He later received his GED in Sterling, Colorado.
Because of the Dust Bowl, he moved to the Roan Creek area in August 1938, when he was about 21 years old. The 1940 US Census shows him living in Garfield, County....
105) Pete Lapham
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A De Beque resident who worked in the cattle business. According to oral history interviewee Morgan Goss, Lapham had a feud with a man named Hiram, and Hiram shot him in the jaw at a pool hall on Main Street in Grand Junction, Colorado.
According to rancher Donald “Don” Rogers, Lapham’s beef was actually with a man named Irey Walck. Lapham threatened to kill Walck when they saw each other in the Pastime Café on Main Street in Grand Junction....
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She was born to Harry Lewis Brown and Penelope Chase (Hamilton) Brown in Newark, New Jersey. Her mother was a homemaker. US Census records show that her father was a tobacco salesman and a manager. He also owned a Wrigley’s chewing gum factory.
Penelope went to high school in Glenn Ridge. She married Joseph Eberhart on March 23, 1929. According to the 1930 US Census, he was a motorman for the local street railway while she was a homemaker with...
107) Charley Redd
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Owner of La Sal Livestock in the La Sal, Utah. He bought the Pittsburgh Cattle Company from J. M. Cunningham and Carpenter in 1914. Redd worked in the livestock trade from at least 1936-1973. According to livestock auctioneer Howard Shults, Redd owned 1,200 commercial cattle, ran sheep, and had 65 employees in 1970, when he was in his early seventies. He based his operations in La Sal, but also had a ranch in Snowmass, Colorado, with 200 head of cattle...
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In a speech given during the oil shale boom, USGS oil shale supervisor Eric Hoffman talks about oil shale reserves in Western Colorado and the West, with focus on the Piceance Basin and the Green River Basin. He speaks about the potential for large oil shale development, the chemistry of oil shale, the geology of locations where oil shale is found, and the large amount of water needed for oil shale processing. He discusses the oil shale boom centered...
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Cordelia Files talks about the history of her family as early homesteaders in Mesa County, Colorado. She remembers life in Fruita in the early Twentieth century. She recalls working on a ranch near De Beque for her first job at the age of fifteen. She speaks about her life as a teacher instructing all eight grades in a one-room school house, about different episodes from her career in education (including the time a cat came to school), and about...
110) Eben "Dean" Massey
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He was born in Meeker, Colorado to Eben Lafayette “Son” Massey Jr. and Lillian (Hall) Massey. His father was a rancher and his mother was a homemaker. His parents ran a ranch in Gateway, to which he moved at the age of three or four. He spent the summers there, while spending the school years in Grand Junction. He also spent some summers in De Beque, where his uncle owned a ranch, working as a ranch hand and helping him put up hay.
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In this recording, Alta Nolan reads the memoirs of Cordelia Files. Files talks about the history of her parents and maternal grandparents who homesteaded in the Fruita, Colorado area in the 1890’s. She describes the fruit growing operation on the homestead. She recounts seeing the Ute people and Chipeta when they came in the fall to dry fruit from the orchard. She remembers early Fruita, with its dirt streets and plank sidewalks. She speaks about...
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He was born in Ashe County, North Carolina and came with his parents to De Beque, Colorado in June 1918, when he was 16 years old. His parents were John Rufus Latham and Annie Latham. J.W. was the nephew of J.A. Wilcoxon, an early rancher. Although J.W.'s father was also a rancher, he had four brothers and there was not enough work for all of them, so he became a cowboy for Dan Burns, and then worked for an oil shale survey gang. He attended grade...
113) Julia "Judy" Harris
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She was born to Joseph Elvain Harris and Jennie Laura (Jackson) Harris in De Beque, Colorado. Her family moved to what became known as the Harris Ranch on the Grand Mesa in 1904, when she was two. The ranch was located on land her grandfather John Jackson had homestead in the 1880's, near Plateau Creek. During the events of the Meeker Massacre in 1879, Josephine Meeker and her children were held on what later became the Harris Ranch.
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He was born to Sidney Lloyd and Jessie Irene (Knusen) Lloyd in Palisade, Colorado. His parents came from Overland, Kansas and settled in Palisade in 1887. His father was a fruit farmer and, reputedly, a horse trader. His mother was a homemaker. Dick had two brothers: Merle and Sidney.
His family moved frequently. The 1910 US Census shows the family living in Goshen, Utah on a fruit farm, when Dick was two. According to the article, “History rides...
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A bank founded in 1905. At the time of its inception, J.J. Durkee was the bank president and Herman W. Kluge was a bank director. T.W. Bowman became president of the bank in 1910, shortly after the institution had constructed a new building on Main Street and was in danger of insolvency. He helped keep the bank solvent and remained the president until 1942.
According to oral history interviewee Luella Morgan, who worked for the Producers Exchange...
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He was born to Walter Stokes and Catherine (Dewar) Stokes, Scottish immigrants, in Coal Creek, Colorado. His family moved to Pear Park sometime around 1890 and he attended the Pear Park School, where his father tried his hand at farming. US Census records show that Walter had lived in Mesa County with his mother where he worked as a farm laborer in 1900. Sometime shortly after that, the family moved to Palisade. There, they ran the Stokes Coal Mine,...
117) Charlie Glass
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An African-American cowboy (though he was reputed to be half-Cherokee) who worked for the S-Cross Cattle Company in Mesa County, for Marsh Nuckles near De Beque, and for the Turner Ranch. He was born and raised in Oklahoma, where his uncle was a cattleman. His father was a cowboy in Oklahoma, and was killed by U. S. Deputy Marshals. Glass came from Texas, and was said to be the foreman of the Knuckles Meat Packing Company in Pueblo, Colorado prior...
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On July 30, 1921, at around 5 p.m., seven men were killed and three were seriously injured in Wheeler Gulch, five miles north of Parachute, Colorado, when a tramway cable slipped loose at the Schuyler-Doyle Shale Company mine. Twelve passengers had boarded the car, the majority of whom had just started working for the mine that very morning. As the car started down the slope, the cable became dislodged from the post it was anchored to, launching the...
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Early Grand Junction druggist, pioneer, and businessman who founded the C. D. Smith Drug Company. He was born in Las Animas, Colorado on August 22, 1879 to Burrel and Amelia (Reynolds) Smith, who traveled from Oberlin, Ohio in 1865. His father was listed by the US Census as a stock-grower and also served as postmaster. In 1882, his father sold some 3,000 head of cattle and his ranch located in the San Luis valley and moved to Gunnison.
C. D. Smith...
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She was born in Toppenish, Washington. She was sickly as a child, so her family moved to Colorado in 1908, when she was three years old. The family homesteaded near Whitewater Creek, between Whitewater and Purdy Mesa, until 1929. During her youth, she travelled from Whitewater to Grand Junction via horse and wagon, approximately three times a year. She was schooled in Whitewater through 8th grade (which she completed in 1919). She went to Grand Junction...
