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In a recording made for his son, Don Rogers talks about his family’s cattle ranch on Pinon Mesa in the 1910’s, about getting lost in the wilderness at the age of six, about an expert tracker named Avery Burford who led the search party, and about being found the next morning after he spent the night alone on a sandbar of East Creek. He recalls a gunfight between cowboys Louis Stewart and Blue, a shooting by a man named Pete Lapham, and tensions...
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Craig B. Aupperle discusses the history of outlaws, robberies and lawmen on the Western Slope and in the Western United States. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of the Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
*Please note that the first half of this audio file suffers from poor quality related to issues with the original recording.