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A former outlaw who worked as a rancher in the Kannah Creek area in the early Twentieth century.
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His father was a German immigrant and his mother was from Nebraska. He was born in South Dakota, and his family moved shorty after to Leadville, Colorado, where his father ran a butcher shop. His family came to Mesa County in 1907 and settled in Kannah Creek. He attended the Purdy Mesa School through the 10th grade. He was a child during World War I and experienced discrimination from a teacher and classmates because his father was from Germany....
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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. ...
4) 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,...
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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...
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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 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...
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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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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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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...
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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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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 grew up in Nebraska and Grand Junction, Colorado. He attended Grand Junction High School and then Colorado College, but had to quit due to his father's death. His brother Charles worked for the Department of the Interior, and got him a job as a cowboy for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and as a U.S. Deputy Stock detective on the Crow Reservation in Montana. During this time, he worked with a doctor on the reservation to complete his studies at Colorado...
