The Valley of Opportunity: A History of West-Central Colorado
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NOTES

1. Richard Goff and Robert H. McCaffree, Century in the Saddle, The 100 Year Story of the Colorado Cattlemen's Association, (Denver: Colorado Cattlemen's Centennial Commission, 1967), p. 105., hereafter cited: Goff and McCaffree, Century Saddle.

2. Mary Rait, "Development of Grand Junction and the Colorado River Valley to Palisade From 1881 to 1931," (M.A. thesis, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1931), pp. 21-22., hereafter cited: Rait, "Development, Grand Junction."

3. Alvin T. Steinel, History of Agriculture in Colorado, 1858 to 1926, (Denver: State Board of Agriculture, 1926), pp. 109-110., hereafter cited: Steinel, Colorado Agriculture., Golf and McCaffree, Century Saddle., p. 105.

4. Ferdinand V. Hayden, Tenth Annual Report of the Survey of the Territories, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1878), pp. 67-68 and 352-353.

5. Clark C. Ewing, Pamela Berude and Margaret C. Ewing, Early McCoy, A Hundred Years Perspective, (Glenwood Spring: Raymond's Printing Co., 1976), p. 9., hereafter cited: Ewing, Berude and Ewing, Early McCoy.

6. Goff and McCaffree, Century Saddle, p. 46.

7. Al Look Interview, Colorado National Monument., and Will Manor and Lee Warner Interview, CNM., Frank Moore Interview, CNM, and William McCabe, A Descriptive History of Eagle County, Colorado, Relating to Mining, Agriculture, Stock and Scenery, (Red Cliffe, CO.: n.p., 1899), pp. 12-14., hereafter cited: McCabe, Descriptive Eagle.

8. Vern Woods Interview, CNM., and Merton Norton Bergner "The Development of Fruita and the Lower Valley of the Colorado River From 1884 to 1927, " (M.A. thesis, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1937), p. 38., hereafter cited: Bergner, "Fruita," and Dan Dillon Casement, "Pioneering the Unaweep." The Colorado Magazine, 31 (October 1954): 274-289., and Walker D. Wyman, "Grand Junction's First Year." The Colorado Magazine, 14 (July 1936): 130-131.

9. Jack Hurley Smith, "The Economic Impact of the Development of the upper Colorado River Basin in Colorado," (M.A. thesis, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1949), p. 17., and Bergner, "Fruita" pp. 35-36., and William McGinley Interview, CWA, CSHS, and No Author, Descriptive of Glenwood Springs, Garfield County, Colorado, (Denver: Defiance Town and Land Company, 1883), p. 15.

10. Ernest Staples Osgood, The Day of the Cattleman, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1929), pp. 85-91., and McCabe, Descriptive Eagle, p. 12.

11. Roy Robbins, Our Landed Heritage, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1976), pp. 218-219.

12. Ibid., pp. 219-220.

13. J. Russell Penny and Marion Clawson, "Administration of Grazing District," edited by Vernon Carstensen in The Public Lands, Studies in the History of the Public Domain, (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1963), p. 462., and Ida Rhone Interview CWA, CSHS.

14. Nelson J. Pritchard Interview, CWA, CSHS., and Goff and McCaffree, Century Saddle, pp. 147-148.

15. Penny and Clawson, "Grazing.," p. 462.

16. Goff and McCaffree, Century Saddle, p. 120., and Erlene Durrant Murray, Lest We Forget: A Short History of Early Grand Valley, Colorado, Originally Called Parachute, (Grand Junction: Quahada, Inc., 1973), p. 83., hereafter cited: Murray, Lest Forget.

17. Murray, Lest Forget, p. 46.

18. Goff and McCaffree, Century Saddle, pp. 144-146., and Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, 4 July 1976., and James Edward Wright, The Politics of Populism, Dissent in Colorado, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974), pp. 31, 38., hereafter cited: Wright, Politics Populism.

19. Wright, Politics Populism, p. 31., and Len Shoemaker, Roaring Fork Valley, an Illustrated Chronicle, (Denver: Sundance Publications, 1973) p. 51., hereafter cited: Shoemaker, Illustrated Roaring.

20. Lucy Ela Interview, CNM.

21. Len Shoemaker, Saga of a Forest Range: A Biography of William R. Kreutzer, Forest Ranger No. 1, and a Historical Account of the U.S. Forest Service in Colorado, (Boulder: Pruett Press, 1958), pp. 51-52., hereafter cited: Shoemaker, Saga., and Wright, Politics Populism, p. 31.

22. A.R. Craig Interview, CWA, CSHS.

23. Jeanette LeBeau Interview, CNM.

24. Ibid.

25. Al Look, Grand Junction, 1881-1972, (Grand Junction: Sentinel Printers, 1972), p. 15., hereafter cited: Look, Grand Junction.

26. Ela Interview, CNM., and Moore Interview, CNM.

27. Harold E. Briggs, "The Development and Decline of Open Range Ranching in the Northwest," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 20 (March 1934): 527.

28. J.T. Jessee Interview, CWA, CSHS., and Lena M. Urquhart, Glenwood Springs: Spa in the Rockies, (Boulder: Pruett Press, 1970), p. 43., and Morris Cafky, Colorado Midland, (Denver: Rocky Mountain Railroad Club, 1965), p. 53., and Clarence L. Danielson and Ralph W. Danielson, Basalt: A Colorado Midland Town, (Boulder: Pruett Publishing Co., 1971), p. 10.

29. MacDonald Knight and Leonard A. Hammock, Early Days on the Eagle, (Eagle, CO.:n.p., 1965), pp. 4, 48., hereafter cited: Knight and Hammock, Early Eagle., and Frank L. Wentworth, Aspen on the Roaring Fork, (Denver: World Press, 1950), pp. 77-78., hereafter cited: Wentworth, Aspen Roaring., and No Author, "Obituaries," The Trail, 6 (April 1914): 27.

30. Reading Club of Rifle, Colorado, Rifle Shots, The Story of Rifle, Colorado, (Rifle, CO.: The Reading Club of Rifle, Colorado, 1973), pp. 90-91, 141., hereafter cited: Rifle, Shots., and Don and Mary Roth Interview, CNM.

31. McCabe, Descriptive Eagle, p. 53.

32. Goff and McCaffree, Century Saddle, pp. 83-85, 87., and J. N. Neal, "J. L. Taggert, Rio Blanco County Pioneer," The Colorado Magazine, 31 (July 1954): 233-234., hereafter cited: Neal, "Taggert."

33. Moore Interview, CNM., and Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, 4 July 1976.

34. Goff and McCaffree, Century Saddle, pp. 101-110., and Wright, Politics Populism, pp. 31-38.

35. McCabe, Descriptive Eagle, p. 12.

36. Wright, Politics Populism, p. 38.

37. Clifford P. Westermeier, "The Legal Status of Colorado Cattlemen, 1867-1887," The Colorado Magazine, 25 (May 1948): 113, 117.

38. Rifle, Shots, p. 91.

39. Bergner, "Fruita," p. 37., and Murray, Lest Forget, pp. 8-12., and Knight and Hammock, Early Eagle, p. 29., and Craig, CWA, CSHS., and George J. Kendrick Interview, CWA, CSHS.

40. Clyde Nottingham Interview, CWA, CSHS.

41. William Farnum Interview, CWA, CSHS.

42. Murray, Lest Forget, p. 35., and Shoemaker, Illustrated Roaring, p. 58., and McCabe, Descriptive Eagle, p. 12., and Wilson Rockwell, Sunset Slope, True Epics of Western Colorado, (Denver: Big Mountain Press, 1956), pp. 230-235., hereafter cited: Rockwell, Sunset Slope.

43. Murray, Lest Forget, p. 31.

44. Len Shoemaker, Pioneers of the Roaring Fork, (Denver: Sage Books, 1965), p. 134., hereafter cited: Shoemaker, Pioneers.

45. McCabe, Descriptive Eagle, pp. 4, 14., and Rifle, Shots, p. 199., and Moore Interview, CNM.

46. Rifle, Shots, p. 199.

47. George M. Darley, "Mark Melvin, The Vermonter," The Trail, 6 (August 1913): 11—13.

48. Moore Interview, CNM.

49. Goff and McCaffree, Century Saddle, pp. 131-138, 149.

50. Murray, Lest Forget, p. 20., and Rifle, Shots, p. 203.

51. Woods Interview.

52. Goff and McCaffree, Century Saddle, p. 151.

53. Ibid., pp. 120-121.

54. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," p. 5.

55. Edward N. Wentworth, "Eastward Sheep Drives From California and Oregon," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 28 (March 1942): 511.

56. Goff and McCaffree, Century Saddle, p. 146.

57. Murray, Lest Forget, pp. 2-4., and Urquhart, Spa, p. 43.

58. Shoemaker, Saga, p. 93., and Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, 4 July 1976., and Walker D. Wyman and John D. Hart, "The Legend of Charlie Glass," The Colorado Magazine, 46 (Winter 1969): 4248., hereafter cited: Wyman and Hart, "Charlie."

59. Rifle, Shots, pp. 200-203.

60. Bergner "Fruita," p. 39.

61. Wyman and Hart, "Charlie," p. 43.

62. Alphonse Meyers Interview, CWA, CSHS.

63. Shoemaker, Saga, p. 95.

64. Mrs. John Dickinson, "Invasion of Our National Parks," The Trail, 10 (January 1918): 15-17.

65. Wright, Politics Populism, pp. 37-38., and Steinel, Colorado Agriculture, p. 139.

66. Look, Grand Junction, p. 15.

67. District Archaeologist Files, Grand Junction District Office, Bureau of Land Management., Grand Junction, CO., 1980., hereafter cited: GJDO, BLM., and Shoemaker, Saga, pp. 91-92.

68. W. O. Ball Interview, CWA, CSHS.

69. Shoemaker, Saga, p. 94.

70. Ibid., pp. 92-93.

71. Ibid., p. 94., and Rifle, Shots, pp. 201-203., and Murray, Lest Forget, p. 126., and Neal "Taggert," p. 234.

72. Rifle, Shots, p. 203.

73. Ibid.

74. Bergner, "Fruita," p. 39., and Moore Interview, CNM.

75. Bergner, "Fruita," pp. 3940.

76. Ibid.

77. Ibid.

78. Moore Interview, CNM., and Ela Interview, CNM., and Woods Interview, CNM., and District Archaeologist Files, GJDO, BLM.

79. Bergner, "Fruita," p. 39.

80. Wyman and Hart, "Charlie," pp. 41-45.

81. Allan Elston Vaughan, Grand Mesa, (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1957)., and Wilson, Sunset Slope, pp. 33-40.

82. Bergner, "Fruita," p. 40.

83. F.C. Sibley, "An Experience at Grand Junction in the Early Eighties," The Colorado Magazine, 13 (November 1936): 233.

84. James H. Rankin, "The Founding and Early Grand Junction," The Colorado Magazine, 6 (March 1929): 42.

85. Look, Grand Junction, pp. 12-13.

86. McGinley Interview, CWA, CSHS.

87. Bergner, "Fruita," p. 40.

88. Wentworth, Aspen, Roaring, pp. 59-60.

89. Look, Grand Junction, p. 19

90. W. O. Ball Interview, CWA, CSHS.

91. Rifle, Shots, p. 91

92. Bergner, "Fruita," p. 40.

93. Murray, Lest Forget, p. 139.

94. Moore Interview, CWA.

95. Ferdinand V. Hayden, Ninth Annual Report of the Survey of the Territories, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1877), pp. 62-63, 344.

96. District Archaeologist Files, GJDO, BLM.

97. Ibid., and Wilson, Sunset Slope, p. 75.

98. District Archaeologist Files, GJDO, BLM.

99. Ibid., and Charles Kelly, The Outlaw Trail, A History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch, (New York: Bonanza Books, 1959), Chap. 2.

100. District Archaeologist Files, GJDO, BLM.

101. Ibid.

102. Ibid., and Wilson, Sunset Slope, pp. 69-79., and Kelly, Outlaw Trail, Chap. 5.

103. Wentworth, Aspen, Roaring, pp. 149-151.

104. Gordon Chappell, Scenic Line of the World, (Golden: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1977), pp. 87-89.

105. Murray, Lest Forget, pp. 127-130.

106. Moore Interview, CNM.

107. Tom Blevins Interview, CWA, CSHS., and R. P. Colter Interview, CWA, CSHS., and A. G. Wallihan Interview, CWA, CSHS.

108. Rifle, Shots, pp. 149, 185., and John L. Noonan Interview, CWA, CSHS.

109. Stienel, Colorado Agriculture, p. 165., and Goff and McCaffree, Century Saddle, p. 161., and Bergner, "Fruita," p. 41.

110. Woods Interview, CNM.



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