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She was born in Utah to William Asbury and Priscilla Park. She married William Tunis Snook, and by 1885, the Colorado State Census shows them living together in Mesa County. They moved subsequently to Montrose County, where their son Guy was born. According to their daughter Della (Snook) Mack (as related in her letter read by Della's niece and oral history interviewee Ida Mae (Snook) Waggoner), the Snooks were back living on the Brink place in Fruita...
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The Mesa County Valley School District 51 was formed on November 27, 1950 from sixteen smaller school districts in Mesa County. These smaller districts, in turn, had formed as the result of prior consolidations. With the exception of De Beque and Plateau Valley, which formed their own school districts, every geographical area in the county became part of District 51. The District elected its first school board and appointed its first superintendent,...
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She was born in Utah to William E. and Isabel (Luts) Roberson. The 1900 US Census record shows her living in La Sal, Utah at the age of one. By 1910 the family was living in Moab, where her father was a sheep rancher. Sometime in her teens or twenties, the family moved east to Mack, Colorado, where her parents owned the general store. The family lived together in a home directly behind the store and Veda worked as a sales person. The 1920 US Census...
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She was born in Sweden on November 26, 1885 and left for the United States in 1910. She settled with her aunt and uncle in Kansas, where she was confirmed in the Lutheran faith. She moved to the Mack, Colorado area with her husband Albert Alstatt, where they homesteaded. She was a homemaker who raised five children on the farm.
25) M.W. Cooley
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He was born in New York. He was the general manager of the Uintah Railway in the 1920’s and perhaps earlier. He lived in Mack, Colorado, where 1920 US Census records show him rooming in a boarding house at the age of fifty-nine. According to Elizabeth (Dow) Angus, he lived in the Mack Hotel with his wife.
He was also an amateur ornithologist whose bird collection was gifted to the Museums of Western Colorado. He was known colloquially as Captain...
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He was born in Utah to Melvin O. and Ann McBeth. 1900 US Census records show him living with his parents in Payson, Utah at the age of two. He grew up on a farm in Payson. He served in the Utah National Guard during World War I, and was stationed in Europe from June 1918 to May 1919, when he was honorably discharged. He married Veda Roberson in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1921. Together they homesteaded in Westwater Canyon, about forty miles from...
27) Albert Alstatt
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He grew up in Kansas and moved to the New Liberty area of Mesa County, Colorado with his wife, Anna (Nilsson) Alstatt, where they homesteaded. According to New Liberty resident Marjorie (Morrow) Thomas, her father, John Burnell Morrow, traveled on the same train as Albert Alstatt, and the two ended up choosing homesteads side-by-side.
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A cattle and sheep ranching operation that was owned by Rufus Tawney, which operated in the Minturn and Mack areas of Colorado beginning around 1905. When Rufus Tawney died in 1929, his grandson Rufus Hirons and the rest of the family decided to liquidate the company's assets. They did this six months before the Great Depression began, which allowed them to get a decent return.
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Marie (Becker) Young talks about her experience living in Germany for a year, and the early days of fruit farming in Mesa County, Colorado. Marie also discusses the early history of Orchard Mesa, her social and work life as a teenager, the business of cattle driving and roundups with her husband in Utah, and her life as a homemaker. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the...
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Harry and Nettie Knight discuss cowboys, ranching, and the history of their pioneering families in Mesa County. 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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Dorothy Green talks about growing up as the child of a Congregational minister and a kindergarten teacher in Wisconsin, about her own teaching career, and about life as the wife of a Congregational minister. She also talks about working as a substitute teacher and tutor for Mesa County Valley School District 51, and about her husband’s career as a principal and teacher for Mesa County schools. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral...
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Margaret Snook describes the voyage to the United States from her native Scotland in 1910, and life in the Van Houten mining camp near Raton, Colorado. She and her daughter Ida May (Snook) Waggoner talk about William T. and Clara P. Snook, and their establishment of a homestead in what became known as Snooks Bottom. Margaret Snook discusses life in Craig and Axel, Colorado, where she and her husband Guy Snook worked supplying homesteaders with various...
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Sterling, Velda and Marie Bittle talk about their lives in Loma, Colorado and the surrounding area. Marie talks about coming to Loma from Kansas when her parents homestead in eastern Utah in 1923, and about running a dairy farm in the 1940’s and 50’s. Price Bittle talks about coming to Loma in 1920 with his parents, helping them farm north of town, working as a ranch foreman in Kannah Creek for E.H. Munro, and working for the Elizondo sheep ranching...
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Carl Swanson talks about his early life and school days near Loma, Colorado, where his family settled and farmed. He recalls working for the Mesa County Road Department for 36 years, beginning in 1941, and becoming a foreman in 1953. He remembers road damage caused by mudslides on Douglas Pass that took two weeks to repair. He recalls the gilsonite mining boom and local coal mining. He speaks about clearing irrigation ditches and serving on the board...
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Wayne Aspinall describes his boyhood in Palisade, Colorado, his education at Mt. Lincoln School and the University of Denver, and his career as a schoolteacher, fruit farmer, lawyer, and U.S. Congressman. 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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Gilbert Limberg talks about growing up in Grand Junction, Colorado in a boarding house run by his mother, and later on a small farm on Old River Road. He also discusses his career as a boilermaker for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, his ownership of the Artesia Motel on Orchard Mesa, his work repairing machines that were used to first pave Grand Junction’s streets in 1925, and the Uintah Railway. His wife Loretta Limberg also offers her occasional...
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William and Maybl Chapman talk about their early lives in Grand Junction and Fruita, Colorado. 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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Rufus Hirons describes his memories of Grand Junction, Colorado in the early Twentieth century, and talks about his work in the ranching and livestock industries. 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.
*Photograph from 1923 Grand Junction High School yearbook.
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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 A Natural Resource:...
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Gertrude Rader discusses her time spent teaching in Loma, Colorado in the early 1900s. She talks about the role of the sugar beet company as landowner and employer in the area. She includes details about the schools, businesses, and churches that existed in Loma, her involvement starting Mesa County’s first hot school lunch program, and her experiences attending an annual fish fry in Horsethief Canyon. Gertrude also shares memories about the many...
