Mesa County (Colo.) -- History
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In an uncharacteristically short interview given at his 88th birthday party, Al Look tells local radio personality Bob Collins about helping to publish a comic newspaper at the University of Nebraska, about the dinosaur find in No Thoroughfare Canyon that led to his interest in archaeology, and about a dig on an Ancestral Pueblo culture site near Montrose, Colorado. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration...
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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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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.
