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She was a prostitute on Grand Junction's Colorado Avenue that worked for the madam Jenny Ward. She was killed by Cecil McHolland.
2) Madam Fran
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According to Mesa County Oral History Project interviewee Mary Plaisted, Fran was the madam of a higher end brothel in a nice part of town (nicer than Grand Junction’s red-light district in any case). She also owned a double decker horse-drawn carriage in which beautifully dressed prostitutes rode. The carriage and its occupants probably served as advertising for the brothel. It may also be the same carriage that Mary Agnes (Robinson) Cox refers...
3) Jean Urruty
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A Basque immigrant who came to Mesa County in 1925. Along with other Basque immigrants, he was a sheepherder in the Pinon Mesa and Green River, Utah areas. After approximately five years of herding sheep, he and other Basques pooled their money and purchased a sheep ranching outfit, which they did in the middle of the Great Depression. In 1935, he purchased the LaSalle Hotel on Grand Junction’s Colorado Avenue, and helped decrease prostitution and...
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Glen McFall was born in Nebraska to Elmer McFall, a rancher, and Clara (Jordan) McFall, a school teacher and homemaker. He attended grade school in Nebraska and then moved to Clifton, Colorado at the age of six, after Clara McFall separated from Elmer. He attended eighth grade at the Clifton School, and then bicycled to school at Grand Junction High School until his family moved into town. In his youth, he worked in Clfiton's Hornbecker Store, measuring...
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He grew up in Nebraska and Grand Junction, Colorado. He attended Grand Junction High School and then Colorado College, but had to quit due to his father's death. His brother Charles worked for the Department of the Interior, and got him a job as a cowboy for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and as a U.S. Deputy Stock detective on the Crow Reservation in Montana. During this time, he worked with a doctor on the reservation to complete his studies at Colorado...
