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He was born in Russia, where he farmed sugar beets. He served for three years in the Russian Army, and following a hunch that a war would be coming soon, took his family to the United States. The family settled with a cousin in Windsor, Colorado, where he worked for the Great Western Sugar Company for four years. In 1917, they homesteaded in Idaho, but their wheat and potato crops were eaten by jack rabbits. They then moved to Delta, Utah, but the...
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He was born to Catullo Guccini and Maggie (Zucca) Guccini, Italian immigrants, in Illinois. The 1920 US Census shows the family living in the town of Hall, where Lou’s father worked as a coal miner and his mother was a homemaker. His family left Illinois and came to Mesa County, Colorado in 1921, when Lou was about five years old. They lived in Loma, where his father ran sheep of his own and as part of the Fitzpatrick outfit. Due to broken limbs...
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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...
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She was born in Windsor, Colorado to German immigrants from Russia. She was one of eight children. The family moved to Loma when she was a young girl to raise sugar beers for Holly Sugar. Bertha worked in the fields, thinning and raising beets. Their family raised most of their own food and were big into pickling watermelons, apples, and dill pickles. The family later lived on a farm in Pomona, in the location of the current Mesa Mall. While in grade...
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Howard M. Shults was born, along with his identical twin Harold, in a log cabin north of Loma in 1905. His parents, James F. Shults and Daisy G. (Hosey) Shults, had come to the Grand Valley in 1902 after graduating from a teacher college in Springfield, Missouri. They married in Clifton, Colorado in 1904. They taught in the Pear Park School before moving west in the Grand Valley. His father eventually became involved in the auctioneering business. When...
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He was born in Saskatchewan, Canada to American citizens Frank Oscar Cary and Louise Pamela Cary. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. US Census records show that the family had moved to Grand Junction, Colorado by 1920, when Joseph was seven years old. The family lived with extended family at 626 North 7th Street, with his father Frank working as a vulcanizer in his own shop. By 1930, the family had moved to Fruitvale, where they...
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He was born to Albert Brubaker and Mary (Firestone) Brubaker in Enid, Oklahoma. His father was an auctioneer and a salesman for a machine company. His mother was a homemaker. US Census records show that he grew up primarily in Oklahoma and Kansas. He attended Washington Elementary School in Anthony, Kansas, Allison Junior High School in Wichita, Kansas, and Cheyenne Mountain High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He married Wilma Lorene Terrell...
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He was born in Stratton, Nebraska to Freidrich Wilhelm “William” Flasche and Marie Katherine “Mary” (Vatz) Flasche. Census records indicate that his father was an immigrant from Germany, and that his mother immigrated from a German settlement in Russia. They were farmers. According to Walter, his father had two wives and families, with one in Germany. The 1900 US Census shows Walter living with his parents and siblings in Burntwood, Kansas...
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Gertrude Rader talks about the profession and lives of teachers, who were primarily women, in Western Colorado during the early Twentieth century. She discusses how, in small communities, women were expected to be much more than teachers including: Doctors’ assistants in a pinch, de facto members of the families that they boarded with in cases of illness or maternity, and moral pillars of the community. She includes many anecdotes from her own teaching...
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Early 20th century resident of Fruita and Loma, Colorado area rancher. Brother of Florence Giles. According to Howard Shults, Long and his brother were important early potato growers in the Fruita area.
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Theodore Simineo talks about the history of violence between sheep and cattle ranchers near Whitewater, Colorado. He remembers helping to drive cattle over the Grand Mesa at the age of six, other aspects of cattle drives, and his life as a cowboy. He describes community dances that took place in Kannah Creek schools or community halls. He speaks about the transportation of cattle by rail from Gunnison and Whitewater. He talks about working as a coal...
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In an interview from May 14, 1981 (audio only, no transcript), Basil T. Knight talks about his youth in Michigan, meeting his wife’s family in Palisade, Colorado and ultimately moving there, operating a fruit farm, and becoming a lifelong teacher and school administrator. He explains the mechanisms that originally funded the many smaller school districts on the Western Slope, including taxes on railroads, and the reasons for the consolidation that...
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Early Twentieth century resident of Fruita and Loma, Colorado. Sister of John Sylvester Long.
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An Italian immigrant who, with her husband Giuseppe "Joseph" Pepe, settled and farmed in the Loma and Fruita areas in the early Twentieth century. Came from the village of Vailo in 1904 after marrying Giuseppe in an arranged marriage. Mother of Joseph "Joe" Peep, John Peep, Mike Peep, and Frank Peep.
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In a lecture and panel discussion at the Palisade’s Taylor Elementary School, Evelyn Kyle speaks about the history of the Mesa County Oral History Project and its invaluable role in collecting local stories. An interview panel of Evelyn Kyle, Paula Buttolph, Mary Faye Hampton, and Luella Morgan speak about their lives, the lives of women in the area, and Western Slope history. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County...
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An interview with Howard Shults, a longtime resident of Mesa County who worked as an auctioneer, farmer, and member of the state land commission. He discusses the business of corralling horses, horse trading, racing horses for money, the Cross Ranch, and social events such as rodeos, fairs, and dances. He also talks about hauling coal in a horse-drawn wagon and the history of coal mines in the valley, about the history of the old fairgrounds at Lincoln...
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Albert Rood describes the life and community involvements of his step-father William Weiser (nephew of William Moyer), his childhood in the Third Fruitridge area and the people who lived there, and stealing watermelons and floating them in the Grand Valley Canal. He also talks about his education at Mesa Junior College, and his work in the field for a Bureau of Entomology laboratory dedicated to eradicating a sugar beet pest. The interview was conducted...
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Gertrude Rader talks at length about the Tabequache band of the Ute and her frequent contact with them when they camped in Kannah Creek during their annual return migration from the mountains of Colorado to the Uintah Reservation in Utah in the early Twentieth century. She discusses her memories of Chipeta and describes Ute customs she observed. She talks about her pioneering grandfather, and about a serious sheep and cattleman conflict that occurred...
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George Knowles talks about the history of his father’s carpentry and construction business in Fruita, about fighting as a soldier in World War I, and aspects of early Mesa County life. Esther Knowles discusses her family and early Twentieth century life in Plateau Valley. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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Howard Shults talks about his career as an auctioneer in Mesa County, Colorado. He also discusses the history of people, places and businesses throughout the county, including the Cross Orchard and the Vernon Z. Reed Ranch. Shults’ wife, Helen Shults, gives her occasional insight. 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...