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A schoolteacher born in Ridgeway, Colorado. She moved to Glade Park with her family in the decade of the 1900's. Her father, who had been a miner in Ridgeway, tried his hand at dry farming in Glade Park but did not have success. The family moved several times during Eva's youth, and she attended school in several locations before graduating from Fruitvale High School in 1917. Immediately, she began teaching school in Glade Park and was charged...
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She was born in Oregon to David Eachus and Sarah Eachus. Her father was a farmer and Methodist minister and her mother was a homemaker. When Lilly was two years old, in about 1895, the family moved to the Glade Park area of Mesa County, Colorado. There, David Eachus ministered and the family homesteaded. The 1910 US Census shows the Eachus family living in Orchard Mesa, when Lilly was 16 years old. Lilly’s occupation is listed as None, with her...
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He was born in Plateau City, Colorado, and moved to the Castle Rock area near Glade Park in 1915, when he was about 4 years old. There, his father homesteaded and dry farmed. The family moved again when they bought land near Coates Creek around 1925. James attended Coates Creek School on Glade Park from 1918 to 1927. He worked as a cowpuncher at a young age, and had many memories of growing up on Glade Park and of social life around the Mesa County...
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A sheep rancher in the Glade Park/Pinon Mesa area in the early Twentieth century. He also worked as a powder man who helped to build Rim Rock Drive over the Monument.
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The one-time District Foreman of the Mesa County Road and Bridge Department (circa 1950). He was born to Elwood and Edith Brouse on a farm in Glade Park, Colorado.
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Lee Hampden/Hampton was the superintendent of Glade Park School District 14. She was an early Fruita, Colorado schoolteacher who taught eighth grade. Darwin Burford, a former student of hers, remembers she was strict.
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Loyd Files talks about his early life in Kansas, moving to Colorado with his family via covered wagon in 1914, and the process of filing for a homestead. He remembers homesteading with his parents in Lamar, Colorado, and with his brother in Glade Park in 1920. He recalls working on the crew that built the Serpents Trail over the Colorado National Monument, meeting John Otto, and helping build Rimrock Drive over the Monument. He speaks about his marriage...
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Lilly Lawson recalls her life in the Glade Park area of Mesa County, Colorado. She talks about her father, who was a Methodist minister and homesteader. She describes people and places in the Glade Park area. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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Historical perspective on Coates Creek School, the last remaining example of a one-room, log cabin schoolhouse in the United States and the center of life for ranching families on Colorado's Western Slope throughout much of the 20th century. Featuring Gateway Canyons' "Curator of Curiosity," Zebulon Miracle, and members of the Roehm family, former Glade Park ranchers whose personal recollections of life in Glade Park are documented here.
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She was born in Crawford County, Missouri to David Eachus and Sarah Eachus. Her father was a farmer and Methodist minister and her mother was a homemaker. In 1895, when she was about 13 years old, the family moved to the Glade Park area of Mesa County, Colorado. There, David Eachus homesteaded and ministered. She married John George Roehm, a German immigrant, in Grand Junction on September 17, 1906. The 1910 US Census shows them living in Orchard...
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He was an early resident of Pinon Mesa in Mesa County, Colorado. He helped drill the well near Griffin Place that George Vernon "Vern" Wood utilized as his water source. Burt also acted as postmaster in Glade Park, Colorado.
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Florence Walker describes in vivid detail the environment of Glade Park while living and teaching there during the 1916-1917 school year. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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According to oral history interviewee James Brouse, Goslin was spoken of by old timers on Glade Park as the first rancher to bring sheep into the area. Charles Sieber and the cowhands of the S-Cross ranch reputedly drove many of his sheep over a cliff and did “everything to get [Goslin] out of there.”
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A rancher on Pinon Mesa. He worked for Charles Sieber on the S-Cross Ranch before starting his own ranch. He owned one of the first cars on Glade Park, a Dodge. He once witnessed a wolf teaching her pups how to take down a bull.
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Lily Lawson and Anna “Amy” Roehm discuss the history of their pioneering family in Glade Park, Colorado. 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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Charles and Catherine Moore discuss early days in the Glade Park area of Mesa County, and the murder of Catherine’s grandfather, Charles Sieber. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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Catherine and Charles “Frank” Moore discuss the history of Glade Park and Pinon Mesa, Colorado, with an emphasis on the area’s ranching history. 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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Early settler of Coates Creek area and Pinon Mesa resident. He was a bootlegger. He got into a gun battle over whiskey with Lou Stuart on Glade Park, and was shot and killed. Jim was selling moonshine to the sheep herders working for Lou Stuart, which started the argument.
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Kenneth Thompson describes his life growing up on a farm on Glade Park, Colorado during the early 1900s. Kenneth also discusses the working conditions while employed for the National Park Service during the early days of the Colorado National Monument, the slow pace of life and the social aspects of living on Glade Park, hunting and killing a bear, and stories of the Indians who lived in Mesa County. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County...
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He was born in Canon City, Colorado and raised in Grand Junction and Glade Park, Colorado. He was the son of prominent citizen and pioneer Phidelah "P.A." Rice, who owned the county's first lumber mill and a lumberyard in town. P.W. worked in the lumberyard as a young man. He also attended the Leland Power’s School of Elocution and would often practice dramatic readings of Hamlet and other works in the woods by their home in Glade Park, Colorado,...