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He came to Western Colorado and Eastern Utah in 1919. Was a cowboy in the Cisco, Utah area and on the Western Slope of Colorado. His parents ran a hotel in Cisco that catered primarily to cowboys and sheepherders. He later became the caretaker of the Elmwood Cemetary in Fruita.
42) Olaf Swanson
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Bootmaker and early Fruita, Colorado settler. Father of Clarence Swanson.
43) George Hulbert
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A surveyor who worked for the General Land Office under the supervision of Charles "Frank" Merrill. His father discovered the Camp Bird Mine, near Ouray, Colorado, and his mother was a court judge in Ouray. He was raised in Fruita, Colorado.
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He was born to Roland "Tank" Burford and Caroline (Newton) Burford in Fresno, California. His father was an attorney and his mother was a homemaker. He became a Mesa County, Colorado pioneer. In the early 1880's, he arrived in Fruita, Colorado on the narrow gauge railroad. He took a job with the Thompson brothers, who had a cattle ranching outfit on Pinon Mesa. According to Lawrence Aubert, a longtime sheep rancher, the Burford family was also involved...
