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Anna Alstatt talks about her life as a young Swedish immigrant in Kansas, and about homesteading and homemaking in Mack, 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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Joel and Jennie Brewster talk about farming and raising thousands of turkeys in Mack, Colorado, and Jennie describes how she used to take the turkeys for a walk. They also talk about life in Mack. 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.
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Veda McBeth talks about people and places of Mack, Colorado, where her family owned and operated the general store in the early Twentieth century. She describes in detail the colorful hobos that she encountered along the railroad, the thousands of sheep in the Mack stockyards, and large sheep drives to Grand Junction. She also speaks about catching the Denver Rio Grande train from Mack to Grand Junction, the Uintah Railway, and the loneliness of homestead...
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Lois Saunders talks about early life in Fruita, Loma, and Mack, Colorado, about life on a farm with her husband Roe Saunders, and about Colorado Mesa University’s Saunders Field House, which was named for her husband. 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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Grace and Ralph Inskeep talk about coming to Mack, Colorado with Grace’s family in 1920. They speak about Ralph’s job working for the Bureau of Reclamation at Camp 7 and his subsequent job as a trackman for the Uintah Railway. They discuss the people and businesses of Loma and Mack, and living in the old Sunset School building. Ralph talks about working at Mesa College as a maintenance man. They speak about attending the Church of the Brethren...
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Elizabeth Angus talks about teaching in Atchee, Colorado, now a ghost town, in the early 1920’s. She remembers the life and history of the company towns that served the Uintah Railway, a gilsonite mining enterprise. She speaks about the Ute people who would visit the general store in Mack, Colorado. She describes certain employees of the Uintah. She talks about Baxter Pass and the environment of the Bookcliffs. The interview was conducted by the...
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Marjorie Thomas describes her childhood on a homestead in the New Liberty area of Mesa County, Colorado. She talks about the difficulty of getting across the Big Salt Wash near Fruita when it flooded. She discusses Sunday school and religious services that existed in the community for twenty-one years, until the lack of leadership caused people to drive to Loma for church. She speaks about the history of the New Liberty School and about social clubs...
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In a Mesa County Historical Society lecture, Joshua Paul Britton and Charles Teed speak about the history, development and impact of the Uintah Railway, which had its headquarters in Mack, Colorado. 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.
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In the early Twentieth century, country schools from Mesa County gathered in Lincoln Park to hold a field day, with graduation ceremonies following in the Lincoln Park Barn. According to oral history interviewee Bertha Schlegel, attendees included students from schools in Pomona, Plateau Valley, Molina, Collbran, Loma, Mack, the Redlands, Clifton, Orchard Mesa, Escalante and Glade Park. Schlegel attended her field days in the 1920's.
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A railway line the Gilson Manufacturing Company created that ran from Crevasse, Colorado (later known as Mack, Colorado) to Black Dragon in order to mine natural asphalt from the Black Dragon uintaite vein. The railway was headquartered in Mack, Colorado. It’s final destination and turning point was Watson, Utah. It’s main mission was to haul gilsonite, but it also included one passenger car. According to Mesa County History Project interviewee...
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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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She was born in Nebraska. Her mother died when she was young, and her father left her and her brother with their grandparents in Oklahoma. She married Joel Brewster on June 11, 1927, while she was working at the Harvey House in Flagstaff, Arizona. They moved to Mesa County, Colorado in 1931, and bought a small farm in Mack, Colorado. In 1946, they bought a turkey ranch, where they raised turkeys by the thousands. She would take the turkeys for a walk...
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Edward Schultz talks about his childhood in a German settlement in Russia and the family’s subsequent flight from the country in the face of persecution against Germans. He remembers immigrant and family life in a German community in Kansas, where they settled after immigrating to the United States. He discusses his brief career as a machinist for the railroad in Kansas. He recalls leaving home at sixteen and meeting his future wife in Mack, Colorado,...
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She was born in Tate Springs, Tennessee to Robert F. Winkle and Cora Elizabeth (Harris) Winkle. Her father was a farmer and her mother a homemaker. US Census records show that the family had moved to Prowers in Bent County, Colorado by 1910, when Grace was eleven years old. She moved with her family to the Mack area of Mesa County on May 20, 1920, when she was 21 years old. She married Ralph Aubrey Inskeep, who had traveled with her from Bent County,...
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She was born in Montrose County, Colorado. By 1896, when she was six years old, she and her family were living on the Brink place in Fruita. They moved to what became known as Snooks Bottom around 1900, named for the homestead founded there by her parents William Tunis Snook and Clara Zillah (Park) Snook. The family lived there until 1910, when a reservoir constructed by resident families burst. They moved back to Fruita, where William purchased and...
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He was born in Ophir, Colorado to father James Gilligan Brewster and his mother David Ann (Kelley) Brewster. The 1900 US Census shows him living with his parents in San Juan County, Utah, when he was five. The family was living in Fruita, Colorado by 1910, when he was 15 years old. His father was a farmer and Joel was an only child. He married Jenny Ellen Menter on June 11, 1927, while he was working as a bridge inspector for the Santa Fe Railroad...
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He was born to Freeman Snook and Lydia (Soule) Snook in Clay, New York, near Syracuse. US Census Records from 1870 list his name as Judge Snook (The nickname "Judge" would seem to be derived from Judson, which was his given name according to his daughter Della (Snook) Mack). According to the 1875 New York State Census, he was married to Jane Snook, but the 1880 US Census shows Jane and their four children living by themselves in New York (though the...
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He was born in La Junta, Colorado to John C. Inskeep and Mamie (Cox) Inskeep. US Census records show that his father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. He attended the Hasty and Cloverleaf Schools. He played baseball, boxed, and wrestled. He moved with the family of Grace Winkle to Mack in Mesa County on May 20, 1920, when he was 21 years old. He and Grace were married in Grand Junction May 28, 1920. They had ten children, 38 grandchildren...
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She was born to William C. McGarvey and Elizabeth “Lizzie” (Kuhnle) McGarvey in Colorado. The 1910 US Census shows the family living in Fort Collins, when Leola was four, with her father working as a chauffer for the sugar factory. Her mother was a homemaker. By 1920, the family lived in Greeley, where William worked as an auto mechanic in a garage. She married Lea Allen Wiswell in Greeley, Colorado on June 16, 1926, when she was twenty-one...