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42) 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....
43) Dave Knight
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According to oral history interviewee Charles Burg, who broke horses with Knight and camped with him, Knight’s mother was a Cherokee Indian from Oklahoma, and he continued with many traditional ways, including use of the soap weed’s root as a dishrag, and the use of a “stockade” corral constructed from horizontal and vertical poles. He also used Mormon Tea to brew a kind of tea. Burg describes Knight as tall and dark with black hair. He probably...
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Walter Flasche talks about his birth in Nebraska and moving to De Beque, Colorado with his parents via covered wagon around 1908. He remembers life in the Roan Creek area, severe drought and heavy snows. He recalls battles between cattle ranchers and sheep ranchers in the area. He speaks about his work as a logger and his work in the nascent oil shale industry. He describes how hard the life of a rancher and oil shale worker was, and how his wife...
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An irrigation district, founded in 1904, serving the Orchard Mesa area of Mesa County, Colorado. it administers the Orchard Mesa Irrigation District Canal, which provides water to East Orchard Mesa and the Vinelands area of Palisade. The canal takes water from the Grand Valley Diversion Dam in De Beque Canyon. According to oral history interviewee Virgil Hickman, the district began providing customers water on a pro-rated basis beginning around 1940....
47) Albert Humeston
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He was born in Humeston, Iowa. He married Ida Van Derley on June 25, 1902, and they moved to Collbran, Colorado in February of 1903. He worked as a merchant with Emerson Collins, where he hired a freighter to bring regular shipments of stock from the DeBeque railroad station to his shop. He also worked as the postmaster of Collbran (a post he held for 28 years -- 1913-1941). He was a member of the Disciples of Christ, and a member of a barbershop...
48) John A. Wilcoxon
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An early Twentieth century Mesa County with a large operation near De Beque. According to oral history interviewee Charles Edward Burg, who worked for him, the bunks Wilcoxon provided for cowboys were infested with bed bugs.
49) Frank Hickman
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He was born in England and immigrated to the United States, living first in Pennsylvania, where he was a coal miner. He worked in coal mines in the Crested Butte, Colorado area, and then moved to Mesa County. He started the first coal mine in the Grand Valley. He ran the Cameo Mine and the Mount Lincoln Mine, the latter being one of the first coal mines in the Grand Valley. He also established the Island Ranch in De Beque Canyon, current location...
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Lawrence Ryan talks about the history of livery service in Plateau Valley, with an emphasis on the dairy and mail delivery services conducted by his father using horse-drawn carriages. The interview was conducted by the Collbran Historical Society in conjunction with the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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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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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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55) John Jackson
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He was born in Iowa. Around 1856, he took a job driving a stagecoach between Independence Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He joined the 1st Colorado Cavalry Regiment in 1861, under the command of Colonel John M. Chivington. During his tenure in the regiment, Jackson took part in the Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people, and also fought in the Battle of Glorieta Pass, where he engaged the Confederates at Apache Canyon. He moved to...
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A utility service that generates distributes and sells electricity in Colorado. Currently, it's a subsidiary of Xcel Energy.
According to William "Bill" Rump, his father Charles Rump served as the local manager in the 1920's or 1930's. According to longtime employee Robert Gustafson, the company consisted of different divisions organized by region. By 1945, when Gustafson was office manager of the Grand Junction division (formed in the late 1920’s...
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Professor Abbott Eastman Fay speaks to a meeting of the North Fork Historical Society about the Spanish influence in Colorado and the expedition of Escalante and Dominguez in 1776. This recording is provided 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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To mark the centennial celebration of the town of Grand Junction, Colorado in 1981, the Mesa County Oral History Project wrote and recorded several radio plays about local history. Beginning on September 26, 1981, local radio stations KSTR, KREX-AM, KREX-FM, and KMSA broadcast the plays. Authors of the plays used interviews recorded by the Mesa County Oral History Project as inspiration. This archival recording contains the play Mesa County Minerals.
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Al Look talks about geologic formations in De Beque Canyon and about the first aerial photographs taken of the Grand Mesa. Margaret (Langen) Look speaks about air travel to Boulder, Colorado in the 1920’s. Al Look speaks about the publication of his book, Hopi Snake Dance, and about the return of his son from World War II. He describes his work with different people on archaeological and paleontological digs, and touches on the vandalism of certain...
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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...
