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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...
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Richard Williams talks about his family’s arrival in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1908. He speaks about his father’s purchase of the Independent Abstract Company and about his own involvement with several abstract and title companies in town. He discusses the formation of the Grand Junction Lions Club, the Grand Junction Lions Club Carnival, and the club’s fundraising for Grand Junction Junior College and other local causes. He speaks about his...
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In an interview recorded November 8, 1977, Fred Ames and his wife Emma Lillian (Stocks) Ames discuss the history of Sinbad Valley and its settlement by his family and others.
In second and third interviews recorded on November 15 and December 3, 1977 (transcript only*), Fred Ames talks about the McCarty Gang, their stomping grounds in Sinbad Valley and nearby Eastern Utah, and about meeting Tom McCarty as a child. He discusses homesteading and...
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Former state and federal game warden John Duncan Hart talks about wildlife management in the Grand River Game Bird Refuge and with the Department of Fish and Game, and discusses the populations and habits of certain bird and animal species. He recounts a run-in with John Otto over orders to cull the bison and elk herds Otto had introduced to the Colorado National Monument. He talks about the painter Harold Bryant, his hunting and habits. He also discusses...
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Morgan Goss discusses his time as a cowboy in Mesa County during the early 1900’s. 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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Born in Whitewater, Colorado. Her parents, August and Olga Johnson, were Swedish immigrants who farmed there. Upon first attending Whitewater School as a child, she did not speak English. She was able to finish high school, and had one year of business college. She worked as an agricultural worker, as domestic help, and in various other positions. She trained as a nurse in 1917 at St. Mary's Hospital on Colorado Avenue in Grand Junction, but...
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One of the first churches in Whitewater, an unincorporated town in Mesa County, Colorado.
30) Anna Peugh
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Early resident of Whitewater, Colorado. Her husband, George Peugh, owned the general store in Whitewater.
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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 To Give or Exchange...
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Miner in Unaweep Canyon. Upon moving with his wife, Orpha Shugar Hall, to Whitewater, he had a contract to construct Whitewater's first telephone line.
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In this interview with Agnes Wright, early Mesa County resident, she discusses growing up in Grand Junction, Colorado and working with her family at the Colorado Telephone Company. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
34) Olga Johnson
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Swedish immigrant and settler of Whitewater, Colorado. Mother of Effie (Johnson) Silzell and Ida May (Johnson) Smith. Also the wife of August Johnson.
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Father of Walter Anderson. Settler of Whitewater area. Friend of John Otto.
36) Charles Silzell
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His family settled the Whitewater area in the late Nineteenth century. Son of William Silzell, brother of William "Will" Silzell, and husband of Effie (Johnson) Silzell.
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Minister of the Congregational Church in early day Whitewater, Colorado.
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Owner of the Whitewater general store in the early Twentieth century. He also maintained a telephone switchboard operated by Effie (Johnson) Silzell and others. He was later the office manager for the Colorado Telephone Company in Grand Junction, Colorado.
39) August Johnson
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A Swedish immigrant who bought a homestead from a previous settler, and farmed the Whitewater area in the late Nineteenth century. Father of Effie (Johnson) Silzell and Ida May (Johnson) Smith. Also the husband of Olga Johnson.
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An early school district, begun in 1883, in the Purdy Mesa area near Whitewater, Colorado. It was absorbed into Mesa County School District 51.
