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Ica Click was born in the Kannah Creek area of Mesa County, Colorado to John W. Cox, a cowboy, and Clementine C. Fox, a homemaker and the daughter of French immigrants. When she was 5 years old, the family moved to its own homestead, near the city of Grand Junction's water intake on the creek. There, they had a ranch, orchard, and small farm. She married Fred Click, who was a rancher.
22) Jacob J. Raber
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Born in Germany, he was a butcher by trade and lived for a time in South Dakota before coming to Leadville, Colorado. There, he supplied miners with meat. When the Homestake Mine closed, many miners left, and Jacob took his family to Mesa County in search of more gainful employment. They settled on a ranch in the Kannah Creek area in 1907, where Jacob tried and failed to grow fruit trees. He ended up ranching cattle instead.
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Grand Junction settler who owned a meat market on Main Street and who opened the first slaughterhouse in town. According to Bowman's grandaughter, Edith Marie (Huffer) Sisac, the slaughterhouse was located directly across from the Durham Stockyards on River Road. He ran the business for over fifty years.
According to oral history interviewee Walt Simineo, Bowman also owned his own cattle ranch, which may have been in Kannah Creek or further up...
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He was a Canadian and Grand Junction pioneer who moved to the area in 1882, shortly after the town's founding. United States Census records list him working in multiple occupations, including: cigar merchant, miner, and contractor. His daughter Nevada Burford's oral history recounts his involvement in some important early town enterprises. For instance, he contracted with the Denver and Rio Grande to build fills for railroad lines, moved fertilizer...
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She was born into a Mormon family in Utah, but never embraced the faith. She became a pioneer who moved to Grand Junction shortly after its founding, and worked in the Brunswick Hotel, where she met her husband William Albion Lynch. Though she was involved in a Presbyterian study group, her husband was a Methodist and the family did not embrace any one faith. She was a homemaker who often cooked and served for several people who stayed in the family's...
26) John W. Cox
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He was born in Iowa. According to his daughter, Ica Click, he came to Meeker, Colorado as a US Army scout as a young man, responding to the Meeker Massacre and Ute uprising. He stayed in Meeker and South Park, where he was a cowboy. He returned to Iowa, married Clementine C. Fox and went to Cañon City, where US Census records show him living by 1900. Sometime between 1900 and 1903, he and Clementine moved to the Kannah Creek area of Mesa County,...
27) Bruce Claybaugh
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A rancher near Kannah Creek in Mesa County, Colorado who owned the Cross-Bar-Cross Ranch. He made his money digging the grade for a Denver & Rio Grande rail line. The line was located near Mack, and never used. After digging the grade in the late 1910’s, he had enough money to purchase the Cross-Bar-Cross.
He partnered with Charley Hollenbeck. They owned a “dredger” on the headwaters of the Arkansas River that was used to mine for gold. He...
28) Henry Herrick
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He and his wife Maggie Herrick were settlers in the Kannah Creek, Colorado area. In 1883, she left her him during a domestic squabble, and went to her parents’ house in Albuquerque. She later returned, only to find Henry in a carriage with a woman named Margaret Thompson. Maggie shot and killed Margaret, whom Henry had employed as a housekeeper. Accompanied by Sheriff Martin Florida, Maggie went to retrieve livestock that belonged to her, but she...
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He was born in Illinois. He was a veteran of the Spanish American War, and came to Grand Junction, Colorado in order to recover from a war injury sometime between 1900 and 1904. There he met his future wife, Alice Coombs, who was teaching in Kannah Creek. They married in Salt Lake City in 1904, and lived in Park City for a time. In 1906, he bought a ranch on Salt Creek, near Collbran, where they lived with their child. The family moved again when...
30) Maggie Herrick
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She and her husband Henry were settlers in the Kannah Creek, Colorado area. In 1883, she left her husband during a domestic squabble, and went to her parents’ house in Albuquerque. She later returned, only to find her husband in a carriage with a woman named Margaret Thompson. She shot and killed Margaret, whom Henry had employed as a housekeeper. Accompanied by Sheriff Martin Florida, she went to retrieve livestock that belonged to her, but she...
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He was born in Missouri to James Bittle and Rosa Lee (Beets) Bittle. His father was a farmer. His mother was a homemaker. Because of his mother’s illness, the family moved to Loma, Colorado in 1920, when Price was 17. They farmed north of Loma and then four miles northwest of town. They raised beans, hay, and wheat for five years. Price then became the ranch foreman for doctor Everett Munro in Kannah Creek, a position he held for three years. He...
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Henry and his wife Maggie Herrick were settlers in the Kannah Creek, Colorado area. In 1883, she left him during a domestic squabble, and went to her parents’ house in Albuquerque. She later returned, only to find Henry in a carriage with a woman named Margaret Thompson, whom Henry had employed as a housekeeper. Maggie shot and killed Margaret. Maggie had been represented by Robert Cobb, who later represented her husband, and who also worked as...
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He was born in Colby, Kansas to Frank Bradbury and Nellie Lorena Gilbert. He grew up in Mesa County, Colorado, where he lived in Kannah Creek and attended the Pride School in Whitewater from 1924 to 1935, attended Grand Junction High School from 1935 to 1936, and Mesa College from 1936 to 1941. He served as an ensign in the US Navy during World War II. Upon returning to the Western Slope, he was self-employed in Whitewater for a time before becoming...
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She was born in Minnesota. Sometime between 1900 and 1910, she came to the Kannah Creek area of Mesa County, Colorado with her mother and sister. There she lived on the Riddle Ranch, and taught Nora Riddle (sister of Andrew Riddle), among others. She taught Latin, and was able to speak Latin and some German all of her life. The move was made to help the sister’s health, as she suffered from asthma. Alice met her future husband George Robinson there,...
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He was born in Whitewater, Colorado to Fred Simineo and Josephine (Vincent) Simineo. His family ranched cattle in the area. His cowboy life began at the age of six, when he helped his father move cattle over the Grand Mesa on the North Fork Trail. He attended the Kannah Creek School from 1911 to 1921 and then went to Cedaredge High School.
He worked as a cowboy in the Whiteater and Gunnison areas, and later became a coal miner. He worked in the...
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Sterling, Velda and Marie Bittle talk about their lives in Loma, Colorado and the surrounding area. Marie talks about coming to Loma from Kansas when her parents homestead in eastern Utah in 1923, and about running a dairy farm in the 1940’s and 50’s. Price Bittle talks about coming to Loma in 1920 with his parents, helping them farm north of town, working as a ranch foreman in Kannah Creek for E.H. Munro, and working for the Elizondo sheep ranching...
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Gertrude Rader talks at length about the Tabequache band of the Ute and her frequent contact with them when they camped in Kannah Creek during their annual return migration from the mountains of Colorado to the Uintah Reservation in Utah in the early Twentieth century. She discusses her memories of Chipeta and describes Ute customs she observed. She talks about her pioneering grandfather, and about a serious sheep and cattleman conflict that occurred...
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Theodore Simineo talks about the history of violence between sheep and cattle ranchers near Whitewater, Colorado. He remembers helping to drive cattle over the Grand Mesa at the age of six, other aspects of cattle drives, and his life as a cowboy. He describes community dances that took place in Kannah Creek schools or community halls. He speaks about the transportation of cattle by rail from Gunnison and Whitewater. He talks about working as a coal...
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She was born in Kannah Creek, Colorado and attended the Pride School near Whitewater. The Tabeguache band of Utes often camped near her home on their journey from the San Juans to Eastern Utah. She spent a good deal of time among them and claimed to have known Chipeta as a child.
Gertrude became a schoolteacher at age 19 in 1919, and taught grades 1-5 in the Whitewater School, Loma Elementary School, the Hunter School, and in the Roan School. ...
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She was born in Whitewater, Colorado to William H. Rambo and Charlotte (Baer) Rambo. Her father was a farmer and her mother was a homemaker. Her family often sang songs together until the death of Helen’s brother when she was twelve. US Census records show that they lived in Kannah Creek in 1920, when Helen was eight years old, and on California Mesa in Delta County in 1930.
She married Fred L. Yates in Moab, Utah on February 24, 1935. The 1940...
