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She was born to John Byrd Dow and Elizabeth (Owen) Dow in Cookeville, Tennessee. The 1910 US Census shows her father working as a lumber manufacturer in Tennessee, when Elizabeth was seven years old. Her mother was a homemaker. Her mother died in 1916, and the 1920 census shows Elizabeth living with her father and five siblings in Cookeville, with her father working as the postmaster in the post office and her eldest sister working as a music teacher.
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He was a dry goods merchant in the general merchandise business. The 1912 Grand Junction City Directory shows that he owned a store called William H. Cox and Company in Mack, Colorado, a business that operated at least until 1927. The 1916 Grand Junction City Directory shows that he owned a store called the Regulator Stores Company on Pabor Avenue in Fruita. In 1922, he owned a store called the Cox and Brewer Merc and Cattle Company. He later became...
83) Rufus Tawney
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He came to Western Colorado in the early 1900’s, and established cattle and sheep ranching operations near Baxter Pass. This ranch land was later sold to Vail Associates and is now called the Vail Resorts Management Company. Also, he owned the Tawney Land and Livestock Company which consisted of ranches located in Mack and Minturn, Colorado.
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Born in Ohio, he moved with his wife and family from Iowa to Grand Junction in 1905, where he worked for the Colorado Sugar Manufacturing Company. They then moved to Fruita, Colorado, where he was a fireman for the Uintah Railway. He also owned a store in Mack, and worked for the Brumbaugh grocery store in Fruita. While in Fruita, he worked in the grocery business.
85) Guy V. Snook
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He was born in Olathe, Colorado. According to his sister Della (Snook) Mack, he and his family were living in the town of Fruita by around 1896, when Guy was 8. They moved to what became known as Snooks Bottom, originally a homestead established by his parents William T. Snook and Clara P. Snook, in 1900. Della, in a letter read by her niece and oral history interviewee Ida Mae (Snook) Waggoner, described Guy as a "big, strong boy" who would help...
86) Irene Budd
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Born April 12, 1917 in Glenmora, Lousiana, and died August 22, 2012. Father: Anderson Mack Crowder. Mother: Emma Irene May Crowder. Siblings: Lawrence Crowder, Raymond Crowder, Bertha Louise Crowder (Carver). Attended High School and college in Louisiana, then 3 years of nurses's training in New Orleans. Married Edward Carl Budd.
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First held in the Sheridan Opera House, on August 30, 1974, this was the first annual Telluride Film Festival.
From the book: Telluride in the Film Festival Galaxy, by Jeffrey Ruoff:
"Opening Night.
9pm. The stage is set, projectors ready. The organist who traveled to Telluride, Colorado, for this evening--Friday, 30 August 1974--sits waiting at his instrument. The vintage Sheridan Opera House, with 232 fixed seats, overflows with 260 audience...
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Alfred W. Bigum talks about his career as a lumberyard manager, and about the history of lumberyards in Montrose and Grand Junction, Colorado. He also discusses his experience as an amateur architect. 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.
91) Wayne Aspinall
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Wayne Aspinall was a U.S. Congressman from Palisade, Colorado. He was a Democrat who represented Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District from 1949-1973. He was the head of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee from 1959-1973. His accomplishments included the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964, which he initially opposed. He also actively promoted water reclamation projects in Colorado and throughout the West, including Glen Canyon...
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Frank Chiaro describes his life as the child of Italian immigrants, farm life in the Pomona area of Mesa County, Colorado, and his various jobs, including his work as a boilermaker for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. He also talks about the second incarnation of his railroading career as a clerk, about mail cars and mail clerks, about the Durham Stockyards and the many livestock trains departing Grand Junction, and about water towers for steam...
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Jean Page talks about the engineering career of her father, John Page, including his role as the office engineer on the Hoover Dam project, his design of several other dams in the West, and his appointment as the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation in 1937. She also discusses his life as an engineer and fruit farmer in Mesa County, his civic involvement in the area, and her childhood there. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral...
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Wayne N. Aspinall describes his enlistment in the Air Service of the United States Army at the start of US involvement in World War I and his enlistment for World War II at the age of 48. He speaks about the necessity of discipline in upbringing and in the military, changes in basic training from World War I to World War II, the necessity of military training, the obligation of military service, and his philosophy on war and the duties of citizenship....
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In 1974, Bill McKelvie, Steamboat Springs High School US History teacher, was a member of the Steamboat Springs Centennial-Bicentennial Committee who wanted to capture the oral histories of Routt County citizens and publish them in a magazine in time for the celebration. Bill agreed to facilitate the project through his classes during the 1974/75 school year. A dozen students, primarily from ranching families, were allowed to work independently...
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Carl Ramunno talks about his time in the Army, and how he ended up in Steamboat Springs coaching high school wrestling and football.
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Carl Ramunno recounts his life and discusses coaching wrestling for Steamboat Springs High School.
