Mesa County (Colo.) -- History Archive Search Results
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Anna Foster talks about teaching at the Mesa School, beginning in 1908. She remembers some of the teachers and students at the school, and going sledding with them for fun. She speaks about the role of the Mesa’s Methodist church in providing community for people of all Christian faiths. She describes stagecoaches that delivered between towns, traveling the old Hogback Road from Palisade, and the building of the Plateau Canyon Road. She recalls...
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Walter Flasche talks about his birth in Nebraska and moving to De Beque, Colorado with his parents via covered wagon around 1908. He remembers life in the Roan Creek area, severe drought and heavy snows. He recalls battles between cattle ranchers and sheep ranchers in the area. He speaks about his work as a logger and his work in the nascent oil shale industry. He describes how hard the life of a rancher and oil shale worker was, and how his wife...
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Marie Tipping talks about the history of her family in Mesa County, Colorado and on the Western Slope. She speaks about her grandfather Thad Duckett, a miner, an early rancher on Pinon Mesa, and the operator of the Duckett Burgman Sawmill on East Creek in the 1880’s. She describes the Duckett Burgman Sawmill company. She gives the history of George Corn, a rancher and foreman on the S-Cross Ranch, and of the Corn family. The interview was conducted...