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Florence Walker describes in vivid detail the environment of Glade Park while living and teaching there during the 1916-1917 school year. 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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"Ready to leave the Cow Camp for Castle Rock Look Out Station. The extra horse was mine as I took all the pictures" - from Alda Borah, 1918. Faces are numbered as follows:
1) Leo Carey; 2) William Long; 3) Harry Woods; 4) Marion Mayer; 5) Marion Dickerson; 6) Mrs. Dickinson; 7) Earl Carey; 8) Mayme Long; 9) Miss Fleming; 10) Beulah Buchholz; 11) Mr. Dickinson; 12) Dorothy Shyrack; 13) Herman Stein; 14) Miss Fleming; 15) --- Mayer; 16) Carl Mayer;...
125. The Potters
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Helen Johnson talks about moving to Denver, Colorado from Cleveland, Ohio at a young age and growing up in different places in Colorado. She talks about the fraudulent land sale that first brought her family to Delta County, Colorado in 1910, and that took her father’s life savings. She discusses living in a rented log cabin in Hotchkiss, her mother working as a hired washerwoman and housekeeper, and her father’s difficulty finding gainful employment...
127. Florine Zartman
128. Borah log cabin
129. Borah log cabin
130. Kilgore Children
132. Gates cabin
133. Grandma Grant's Home
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Darrell, Guy and Boyd Barnes, standing at the doorway of the large cabin at Four Mile (four miles up Eby Creek, toward Castle).
The smaller cabin ..."was built from aspen wood logs and was really small. The roof on this cabin was made of dirt and the family garden was grown on the roof of the little cabin. Phyllis Barnes [Johnson] was born in this cabin one year pretty close to Christmas. ... Guy Barnes cleared more land and built a much larger...
137. Buerger cabin
138. Frenchy's Cabin
139. Frenchy's Cabin
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Cabin belonging to the Tetreault family of Red Cliff. This photo was taken on Oct. 26, 2010.
Frank "Frenchy" Tetrault was married to Agnes. They had a son, John, and a daughter, Sue.
"Both men were rather small, wiry guys and good workers. Frenchy worked for years as the haulage man for the town of Gilman; the company had a team of horses, a wagon and a sled and he hauled anything he was asked to. In later years, he lived at Bell's Camp and gouged...