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Glenn Edward Rogers talks about his early life in Cripple Creek and his military service during World War II. He discusses his early career as a biologist in wildlife management for the Bureau of Land Management’s Division of Wildlife (BLM). He remembers conducting deer counts on the Western Slope in the 1940’s and controversy around doe hunting season, the number of hunting licenses issued, and range deterioration. He speaks about the Division...
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Vern Wood discusses his life as an early Mesa County resident, homesteader in Pinon Mesa, and cattle rancher on Glade Park. Wood and his wife Bernice also discuss the building of the Serpent’s Trail on the Colorado National Monument, life at local schools, country dances on Glade Park, transportation methods, and murder scandals that occurred around Glade Park. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration...
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A resident of Glade Park, Colorado with a knowledge of local history and archaeological finds.
26) Herman Rowe
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Homesteader in Glade Park, Colorado, who hosted Florence Bryant Walker while she taught at the Glade Park School (1916-17).
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Early farmer and rancher on Glade Park. He was born in Delta, Colorado and moved to Glade Park, Colorado with his parents and siblings to cattle farm and homestead in April 1912.
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George “Vern” Wood discusses homesteading on Glade Park, and early Glade Park schools. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of the Mesa County Public Library and the Museum of Western Colorado.
29) Edna Rowe
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Homesteader in Glade Park, Colorado, who hosted Florence Bryant Walker during her time teaching up in Glade Park (1916-17). According to Walker, Rowe was an excellent homemaker who did much with little.
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Mrs. Floyd Carpenter was a panelist in a Mesa County Historical Society panel on the history of Glade Park in July 1978.
31) Roy George
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Roy George was surveyor for the National Park Service and an acquaintance of Kenneth Thompson of Glade Park, Colorado.
32) Sharkey Moore
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Sharkey Moore was an old horse trader who tried to work out a deal with Kenneth Thompson of Glade Park, Colorado.
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A member on a Mesa County Historical Society panel that spoke about Glade Park, Colorado history at a program in the 1970’s.
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Lucy Ela discusses John Otto, the Colorado National Monument, and the settlement of Glade Park. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
*Photograph from the 1936 Grand Junction High School yearbook.
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He was the owner of the Glade Park Store in the early Twentieth century and said by oral history interviewee Glenn McFall to be a benefactor to the land around Glade Park, helping to “carry some men through the Depression.” He married Loda Thirsk, who helped him run the store.
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Elocution teacher at the Sleeper School, a private school in Glade Park that she founded with George Gordon. Mother of Catherine (Saxon) Moore. Wife of John Frank Sleeper.
37) Sarah Eachus
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She moved with her husband and family to a homestead in the Glade Park, Colorado area in the 1890’s, after living in Missouri and Oregon. Born in Ohio.
38) David Eachus
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He moved with his wife and family to a homestead in the Glade Park, Colorado area in the 1890’s, after living in Missouri and Oregon. Born in Ohio in 1865.
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Early longtime resident of Glade Park and wife of George Vernon "Vern" Wood. She was a school teacher who taught at the West End School.
40) [Teresa?] France
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Postmistress of the first Glade Park post office, which was established in 1910. The post office itself was located in what Eva (Wood) Leslie called a "little tar roofed clam shack", which was a little West of where the Glade Park Store currently stands. [Teresa?] lived in a small home next to the post office and eventually sold the post office to the Lawrences, who continued to run it from the same building. She was also the originator of the...
