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61) Lee Hampden
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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.
62) Jim Blue
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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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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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A country nurse in Mesa County who worked at St. Mary's Hospital in the early 1900's. She was a very large woman, and people loved her because, according to Dr. Everett "E.H." Munro, she had a heart as big as the rest of her. Later, she was a school nurse in the Glade Park area, and was very good with children. According to oral history interviewee Ruth Tilton, she also served as the librarian in the Palisade Public Library. She was the successor...
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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 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.
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She was born in Unaweep Canyon to Joseph Rawlings, a railroad conductor, and Emma Rawlings, a homemaker. The 1900 US Census shows her living at 8 Pitkin Avenue in Grand Junction, Colorado at the age of 12. She married Ellwood Brouse on December 24, 1906. Beginning in 1915, they homesteaded, farmed, and raised children on Glade Park. She was a homemaker.
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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...
70) Elwood L. Brouse
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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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Bernice Carney tells the story of her German immigrant parents and their homesteading life in Kansas and Collbran, Colorado. She also discusses her life growing up on a ranch, teaching in Glade Park, and her nurse’s training. 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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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 Early Day Schools...
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A Twentieth century Western Slope sheep rancher. He was born to Florenz Aubert and Grace (Larralde) Aubert in Price, Utah. His parents were both immigrants from France. His father was a sheepherder and his mother was a homemaker. In 1926, Florenz homesteaded land on Pinon Mesa in Mesa County, Colorado. The family spent the summers there, where they grazed sheep, and returned to Utah in time for the children to start school in the fall. They attempted...
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He was born in Elgin, Illinois. He was a miner and ranch worker in Ridgeway, Colorado before moving to Glade Park, Colorado with his family in 1912. There, he tried raising corn and hogs.
According to Silmon Laird Smith, Wood also traded in animal hides. Wood accompanied Smith on a bear hunting trip to the Grand Mesa in the early 1900's. The two succeeded in trapping a large grizzly bear, but were unsuccessful in selling the hide.
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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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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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Joe Peep (born Joseph Pepe to Italian immigrant parents) was an early Fruita farmer, cowboy, rodeo rider, and horse enthusiast. With his brothers, he competed in several of the rodeo competitions at Fruita's Cowpuncher's Reunion and won the bronc riding competition. He rode as a cowboy for Albert Turner on his Grand County ranch. He then farmed in Glade Park, and briefly on a failed homestead on Pinon Mesa before he bought land in Loma, where he...
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Florence Bryant Walker graduated from Appleton Consolidated High School in 1915 and took teacher training courses at the Hoel Business College (which later became Ross Business College). According to Walker, at the age of 18, she took her first teaching job, and spent the 1916-17 school year teaching up at the Coates Creek School in Glade Park, Colorado. During the Women of Western Colorado presentation at the Palisade Library on June 24, 1982, presenters...
