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Chuck Lundy and interviewer Al Look talk about a Fremont Indian excavation in No Thoroughfare Canyon, about the archaeologist Hannah Marie Wormington and her work at the Turner-Look Site in Utah, and about Native American fossil finds on Glade Park, Colorado. They also speak about Colorado National Monument founder John Otto, about dinosaur fossils discovered by “Dinosaur Jim,” the paleontologist James Jensen, and about dinosaur bones found by...
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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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An old cowpuncher and early employer of James Brouse. According to oral history interviewee James Brouse, he ran about 1000 head of cattle near Westwater, Utah and on Pinon Mesa. He also worked for Charles Sieber on the S-Cross Ranch. He witnessed Sieber's shooting by Joe Harris in 1902, and eventually killed Harris in retaliation. He was a local town drunk, cattle rancher, and train conductor. One time he hijacked a train going across state lines,...
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He was born in Iowa to Warden S. “Ward” Thompson and Etta Grace (Griffith) Thompson. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. The family moved to Clifton, Colorado in 1907, when he was four years old. In Mesa County, the family farmed fruit. His father had a longstanding bout with tuberculosis and, after twenty-three illness-related surgeries, died in 1919. In 1917, when he was fourteen years old, the family homesteaded on Glade...
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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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William Ela talks about his family’s arrival in the Little Dolores River area of Mesa County in 1881 and their establishment of the 2-V Ranch. He tells stories about his grandfather, the pioneer rancher and Grand Junction town mayor William Phillips Ela. He remembers his grandfather’s horse Looney and his escapades. He speaks about the dangers of travel to and from Glade Park in the early days. He recalls stories passed down about his ancestors’...
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He was born in Elkhart, Indiana. US Census records from 1900 show Elwood and his siblings living with their aunt and uncle, Albert and Maggie Seiss in Elkhart, where Ellwood worked as a farm laborer at the age of 15. Marriage records show that he married Edith M. Rawlings in Grand Junction, Colorado on December 24, 1906. The Brouses and their children lived for a time in Plateau City before Ellwood homesteaded in the Castle Rock area near Glade Park...
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He was born on a farm in Cubage, Kentucky to David and Rachel China Miracle. The family moved to a homestead on Glade Park in 1921, when David was about 11 years old. During the early 1930’s, he worked with Civilian Conservation Corps crews in building Rim Rock Drive over the Colorado National Monument. While working on an “open-faced tunnel,” he witnessed a blasting accident that killed nine men, including his brother-in-law. He also helped...
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He was born in Decatur, Illinois to William Nelson Stafford and Amelia Anthony (Schutt) Stafford. The 1910 US Census record shows that the family had moved to Yuma, Colorado by the time Harold was four. There, his father and mother homesteaded. Harold came to Western Colorado in 1931, where he worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps in CCC camp number 2 near Glade Park, helping to build Rim Rock Drive over the Colorado National Monument. He...
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He was born in Fruita to John G. Beard and Grace Emily (Curtis) Beard. His father worked as a druggist, electrician, coal loader and later raised goats on a homestead in Devil’s Canyon. His mother was a homemaker and school teacher. He had a twin brother, Wallace, and a sister, Roseltha. He attended the Hunter School and then Fruita schools. He also helped his father with homestead work. He attended Mesa College and the University of Colorado. He...
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She was born in Fruita at 609 Tabor Street. to Eliza E. (Dawald) Raber and Larkin L. Raber. Her father was a pharmacist who owned his own drugstore in town and her mother was a homemaker. Her sister Marjorie was also a pharmacist. She attended Fruita High School before going to the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she majored in Pharmacy. While in college she was involved in the Mortal and Pestle club and the Little Symphony Orchestra....
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In one interview captured in five recordings, Kenneth Thompson talks about his life in Mesa County, Colorado. In part one, he remembers moving to Clifton, Colorado, where the family farmed fruit. He recalls homesteading on Glade Park in a log cabin built by his fifteen-year-old brother. He discusses his time as a sheepherder and sheepherding practices, especially those for protecting sheep from various predators. He speaks about trapping predators...
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She was born in Miami, Ohio to Samuel J. Hamilton and Martha Evelyn (Newberry) Hamilton. Her father was a house painter and wallpaper hanger. Her mother was a homemaker. Cordelia was a sibling to Margaret, Robert, Jeanette, Margaret, Martha, Harvey, Margery, and William Hamilton. Her paternal half-sibling was Edna Hamilton. The family moved to Fruita, Colorado in 1904, when Cordelia was about four years old. Cordelia’s parents and maternal grandparents...
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She was born to Louise Amelia Sieber and William H. Saxon in 1894, shortly after her parents’ marriage. Colorado records indicate that her parents divorced in 1901. 1900 US Census records show Catherine living with her mother and grandparents, Charles and Henrietta Sieber. Charles was a pioneer and owner of the S-Cross Cattle Company. Her mother remarried in 1902, to John Sleeper, and Catherine was raised by her stepfather. She grew up on the...
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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...
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He was born in Dukedom, Tennessee. His application for social security benefits gives his parents at James H. Collier and Fountain Ella Hughes. According to his obituary in the Daily Sentinel, which also confirms the location of his birth, he was born on March 17, 1873. He came to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1899 and began working as a fireman for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. He married Margaret Almeria “Maggie” Howell in Grand Junction...
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He was born in La Junta, Colorado to John C. Inskeep and Mamie (Cox) Inskeep. US Census records show that his father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. He attended the Hasty and Cloverleaf Schools. He played baseball, boxed, and wrestled. He moved with the family of Grace Winkle to Mack in Mesa County on May 20, 1920, when he was 21 years old. He and Grace were married in Grand Junction May 28, 1920. They had ten children, 38 grandchildren...
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Harold Stafford talks about coming to Western Colorado during the Great Depression to join the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). He describes working on the construction of Rim Rock Drive as part of the Colorado National Monument CCC camp. He discusses the Rim Rock Drive road-building disaster, in which nine men were killed by a mistimed blast. He speaks about Rod Day, the education coordinator in the camp, and a former newspaper man who had murdered...
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John Collier talks about his upbringing on a farm in Grand Junction, Colorado, on ranchland and farmland in the Redlands, and on a homestead in Pinon Mesa. He speaks about the history of the Sleeper and Ela family’s ranching operations on Pinon Mesa. He describes his Uncle Joe Collier, who served as the Mesa County Sheriff during Prohibition, and a bootlegger’s attempt to blackmail him. He discusses what he perceives as the effect of uranium prospecting...
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Early Twentieth century Glade Park resident. Wife of Wendell Ela. Sister of Denver poet Thomas Hornsby Ferril. She was born to William C. "Will" Ferril and Alice (McHarg) Ferril in New York State. According to US Census records, her father Will was a journalist from Kansas whose own father had been a preacher. According to Lucy, Will was well known as a journalist, was the owner and editor of the Rocky Mountain Herald (the oldest weekly newspaper...