The Valley of Opportunity: A History of West-Central Colorado BLM Cultural Resource Series (Colorado: No. 12)

1. Robert E. Struthers, The Role of Irrigation Development in Community Economic Structure, Grand Valley Trade Area, Colorado, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1963), pp. 1 and 6., hereafter cited: Struthers, Irrigation Development.

2. Ibid., p. 10.

3. Mary Rait, "Development of the Peach Industry in the Colorado River Valley," The Colorado Magazine, 22 (November 1945): 257., hereafter cited: Rait, "Peaches."

4. Jack Hurley Smith, "The Economic Impact of the Development of the Upper Colorado River Basin in Colorado," p. 113., hereafter cited: Smith, "Colorado River."

5. No Author, The Colorado River, A Natural Menace Becomes a National Resource, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1946), p. 76., hereafter cited: No Author, Natural Menace., and No Author, Grand Valley, Colorado, A Plan for the Development of the Grand Valley of the Colorado River, (Ithaca: Cornell University, 1958), pp. 14 and 17., hereafter cited: No Author, A Plan.

6. Smith, Colorado River, pp. 113 and 117., and Vern Woods Interview, CNM.

7. Erlene Durrant Murray, Lest We Forget: A Short History of Early Grand Valley, Colorado, Originally Called Parachute, Colorado, (Grand Junction: Quahada, Inc., 1973), p. 17., hereafter cited: Murray, Lest Forget.

8. Robert L. Brown, Holy Cross—The Mountain and the City, (Caldwell, ID.: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1970), p. 73., hereafter cited: Brown, Holy Cross.

9. Ibid., pp. 107, 147-148.

10. Lena M. Urquhart, Glenwood Springs: Spa in the Mountains, (Boulder: Pruett Press, 1970), pp. 144-145., hereafter cited: Urquhart, Spa.

11. Ibid., pp. 132 and 144-145.

12. Ibid., p. 144.

13. Carl Ubbelohde, Maxine Benson and Duane A. Smith, A Colorado History, (Boulder: Pruett Press, 1976), pp. 349-350., hereafter cited: Ubbelohde, Benson and Smith, Colorado History.

14. Al Look, In My Back Yard, (Denver: University of Denver Press, 1951), pp. 28-34., hereafter cited: Look, Back Yard.

15. Clarence L. Danielson and Ralph W. Danielson, Basalt: A Colorado Midland Town, (Boulder: Pruett Press, 1971), pp. 33-34., hereafter cited: Danielson and Danielson, Basalt, and Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, 4 July 1976.

16. Smith, "Colorado River," p. 87., and Look, Back Yard, p. 3.

17. Urquhart, Spa, pp. 155-157.

18. Ibid., pp. 155-156.

19. Marion Clawson, "Recreation as a Competitive Segment of Multiple Use," in Land and Water Use, p. 390, edited by Wynne Thorne, (Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1963.)

20. Ibid., pp. 392-399.

21. Urquhart, Spa, p. 163.

22. Reading Club of Rifle, Colorado, comp., Rifle Shots, The Story of Rifle, Colorado, (Rifle, CO.: Reading Club of Rifle, Colorado, 1973), p. 228., hereafter cited: Rifle, Shots.

23. Edward T. Bollinger and Frederick Bauer, The Moffat Road, (Chicago: Swallow Press, 1962), p. 293.

24. Frank L. Wentworth, Aspen on the Roaring Fork, (Denver: World Press, 1950), p. 350.

25. Karl R. Zimmerman, CZ—The Story of the California Zephyr, (Oradell, CA.: Delford Press, 1972), pp. 50-54.

26. Ibid., p. 54., and Urquhart, Spa, pp. 164-165.

27. Rifle, Shots, p. 227.

28. Urquhart, Spa, p. 161.

29. Len Shoemaker, Pioneers of the Roaring Fork, (Denver: Sage Books, 1965), pp. 102-103.

30. Peggy Clifford and John M. Smith, Aspen—Dreams and Dilemmas, (Chicago: The Swallow Press, 1970), pp. 44-48., hereafter cited: Clifford and Smith, Aspen Dreams., and George Gibbons Hayes, Getting Down to Bedrock, (Cedar Rapids, IA.: The Premier Press, 1960), p. 184.

31. Clifford and Smith, Aspen Dreams, pp. 5-8 and 13.

32. Urquhart, Spa, pp. 149-150 and 164.

33. G. Michael McCarthy, Hour of Trial, The Conservation Movement in Colorado and the West, 1891-1907, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977), pp. 253-255 and 261.

34. Rifle, Shots, pp. 247-248.

35. Robert Tweedwell, "Wayne Aspinall, A Man to Remember," The Empire Magazine of the Denver Post, 4 May 1980, pp. 10-13., hereafter cited: Tweedwell, "Aspinall"., and Ubbelohde, Benson and Smith, Colorado History, pp. 341-342.

36. Tweedwell, "Aspinall," pp. 10-11, 26-2- and 40., and Ubbelohde, Benson and Smith, Colorado History, p. 354.

37. Norman Wengert, Oil Shale Country Fact Book, 2 vols. (Boulder: Colony Development Operation, n.d. (1970), II:6., and Grand Junction TV-3, 5:30 News, 5 February 1980.

38. Smith, Colorado River, p. 20.