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In a two-part interview carried out over two days, Howard Shults talks about his experiences as a rancher and auctioneer on Colorado’s Western Slope. In part one, he talks about the arrival of his parents in Mesa County in 1903, their teaching careers at Pear Park and in Fruita, and his father’s move to a career as an auctioneer. He speaks about his childhood in Grand Junction and Collbran, his graduation from Grand Junction High School in 1923,...
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In a lecture to the Grand Junction Lions Club, given just days before he died, prominent water law attorney Silmon Smith talks about his life and the history of Grand Junction (the lecture was broadcast hours later on KREX radio). He remembers his family’s arrival in the town in the 1890’s and early development in Grand Junction. He recalls a colorful Main Street filled with saloons. He speaks about his father Frank Smith’s respiratory illness,...
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Dick Lloyd talks about cattle ranching in Western Colorado both before and after the Taylor Grazing Act, about moving cattle around to different grazing areas in Colorado, and about shipping them to Denver by rail via the De Beque Stockyard. He speaks about training horses and using horses to herd cattle. Bertha Lloyd discusses her courtship with Dick, their chivaree and their marriage. The two of them describe homesteading in a log cabin on the Grand...
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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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During a panel discussion of the Mesa County Historical Society, Kenneth Baird discusses the settlement and incorporation of Grand Junction, the creation of the Grand Junction Town Company, early city government, town building, and early municipal ordinances. Professor Don Mackendrick talks about James W. Bucklin’s draft of a new city charter in 1910, which established a commission form of government. He mentions progressive reforms that put the...
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Dorothy Tindall talks about the early days of Whitewater, Colorado as a rail center for cattle and stock. She speaks about the administrative organization of schools prior to the consolidation of Mesa County School District 51, her development of Mesa County’s first school hot lunch program at the Star School, games kids played at recess, about her work educating the children of migrant laborers who lived in La Colonia, and her role in the development...
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Louis Farmer and other panelists discuss the pioneer history of the Kannah Creek area in Mesa County, Colorado at a meeting of the Mesa County Historical Society in 1978. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
11) Charley Marlow
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A former outlaw who worked as a rancher in the Kannah Creek area in the early Twentieth century.
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His father was a German immigrant and his mother was from Nebraska. He was born in South Dakota, and his family moved shorty after to Leadville, Colorado, where his father ran a butcher shop. His family came to Mesa County in 1907 and settled in Kannah Creek. He attended the Purdy Mesa School through the 10th grade. He was a child during World War I and experienced discrimination from a teacher and classmates because his father was from Germany....
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Gertrude Rader talks about the New Deal and its effect on her farm in Loma, Colorado. She then describes at length the migration of Ute tribal members from the Ouray/Silverton area to Eastern Utah every fall in the early Twentieth century, their camping near Rader's childhood home in Kannah Creek, and her observations of the Ute people. She also discusses her family's pioneer history in the Whitewater/Kannah Creek area, her time teaching in rural...
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She was born in Kannah Creek, Colorado and attended the Pride School near Whitewater. The Tabeguache band of Utes often camped near her home on their journey from the San Juans to Eastern Utah. She spent a good deal of time among them and claimed to have known Chipeta as a child.
Gertrude became a schoolteacher at age 19 in 1919, and taught grades 1-5 in the Whitewater School, Loma Elementary School, the Hunter School, and in the Roan School. ...
15) John W. Cox
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He was born in Iowa. According to his daughter, Ica Click, he came to Meeker, Colorado as a US Army scout as a young man, responding to the Meeker Massacre and Ute uprising. He stayed in Meeker and South Park, where he was a cowboy. He returned to Iowa, married Clementine C. Fox and went to Cañon City, where US Census records show him living by 1900. Sometime between 1900 and 1903, he and Clementine moved to the Kannah Creek area of Mesa County,...
16) Bruce Claybaugh
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A rancher near Kannah Creek in Mesa County, Colorado who owned the Cross-Bar-Cross Ranch. He made his money digging the grade for a Denver & Rio Grande rail line. The line was located near Mack, and never used. After digging the grade in the late 1910’s, he had enough money to purchase the Cross-Bar-Cross.
He partnered with Charley Hollenbeck. They owned a “dredger” on the headwaters of the Arkansas River that was used to mine for gold. He...
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William Raber talks about his family’s ranch in the Kannah Creek area of Mesa County, Colorado, and about the development of reservoirs and water projects, beginning with the city of Grand Junction’s diversion of water from Kannah Creek around 1910. He also talks about traveling by train with cattle that he intended to sell in Los Angeles, and about discrimination that he experienced during World War I as the son of German immigrant. The interview...
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She was born in Minnesota. Sometime between 1900 and 1910, she came to the Kannah Creek area of Mesa County, Colorado with her mother and sister. There she lived on the Riddle Ranch, and taught Nora Riddle (sister of Andrew Riddle), among others. She taught Latin, and was able to speak Latin and some German all of her life. The move was made to help the sister’s health, as she suffered from asthma. Alice met her future husband George Robinson there,...
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He was born in Illinois. He was a veteran of the Spanish American War, and came to Grand Junction, Colorado in order to recover from a war injury sometime between 1900 and 1904. There he met his future wife, Alice Coombs, who was teaching in Kannah Creek. They married in Salt Lake City in 1904, and lived in Park City for a time. In 1906, he bought a ranch on Salt Creek, near Collbran, where they lived with their child. The family moved again when...
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Lizzy Click talks about her childhood in the 1890's and 1900's on a farm in the Appleton area of Mesa County, Colorado, and about life as a homemaker on a ranch in Kannah Creek. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
