The Valley of Opportunity: A History of West-Central Colorado
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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), pp. 120-122.

2. S. D. Mock, "Effects of the 'Boom' Decade 1870-1880, Upon Colorado Population," The Colorado Magazine, 2 (January 1934): 27., hereafter cited: Mock, "Boom".

3. William McGinley Interview, CWA, CSHS., Wilson Interview, CWA, CSHS., A. J. Cole Interview, CWA, CSHS., A. G. Wallihan Interview, CWA, CSHS., Clark C. Ewing, Pamela Berude and Maragret C. Ewing, Early McCoy, A Hundred Years Prospective, (Glenwood Springs: Raymond's Printing Co., 1976), pp. 11-12., hereafter cited: Ewing, Berude and Ewing, Early McCoy., Erlene Durrant Murray, Lest We Forget: A Short History of Early Grand Valley, Colorado, Originally Called Parachute, Colorado, (Grand Junction: Quahada, Inc., 1973), p. 8., hereafter cited: Murray, Lest Forget., and Reading Club of Rifle, Colorado, comp., Rifle Shots, The Story of Rifle, Colorado, (Rifle, CO.: The Reading Club of Rifle, Colorado, 1973), pp. 3, 16-17 and 25., hereafter cited: Rifle, Shots.

4. Lois Borland, "Ho for the Reservation, Settlement of the Western Slope," The Colorado Magazine, 29 (January 1952): 70., hereafter cited: Borland "Ho"., Walker D. Wyman, "Grand Junction's First Year," The Colorado Magazine, 14 (July 1936): 127., hereafter cited; Wyman, "Grand Junction"., Vern Woods Interview, CNM., and Will Minor and Lee Warner Interview, CNM.

5. Merton Nolen Bergner, "The Development of Fruita and the Lower Valley of the Colorado River From 1884 to 1937" (Unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1937), p. 23., hereafter cited: Bergner, "Fruita."

6. Mabel Eyers Manuscript "The History and Development of Palisade, Colorado," Mesa County Public Library, p. 40., Interview, CWA, CSHS.

7. Mock, "Boom," pp. 27 and 32., and James H. Rankin, "The Founding and Early Years of Grand Junction," The Colorado Magazine, 6 (March 1929): 39., hereafter cited: Rankin, "Grand Junction."

8. Yeager Interview, CWA, CSHS., Frank E. Dean Interview, CWA, CSHS., Ruth Blaine Underhill Interview, CWA, CSHS., M. J. McKeel Interview, CWA, CSHS., Dan and Mary Roth Interview, CNM., and Murray, Lest Forget, pp. 4-16, 47-53.

9. Mary Rait, "Development of Grand Junction and the Colorado River Valley to Palisade From 1881 to 1931," (Unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1931), p. 17., hereafter cited: Rait, "Development, Grand Junction."

10. Len Shoemaker, Roaring Fork Valley, An Illustrated Chronicle, (Silverton, CO.: Sundance Publication, 1973), p. 66., and Edna D. Sweet, Carbondale Pioneers, (n.c.: Privately Published, 1947), pp. 19-20.

11. William McCabe, A Descriptive History of Eagle County, Colorado, Relating to Mining, Agriculture, Stock and Scenery, (Red Cliffe, CO.: n.p., 1899), p. 11., hereafter pp. 1-3., Eyers "Palisade", pp. 25, 31., and Roth Interview, CNM.

12. Eyers, "Palisade" p. 31.

13. Ibid., p. 25., and Murray, Lest Forget, pp. 1-2.

14. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," p. 17.

15. Murray, Lest Forget, pp. 19-27.

16. Pritchard Interview, CWA, CSHS., Robert E. Leach, "Alfred Butters," The Trail, 7 (June 1914): 20., hereafter cited: Leach, "Butters"., and Rifle, Shots, pp. 12-14.

17. J. A. K. Crawford Interview, CWA, CSHS.

18. Bergner, "Fruita," p. 122.

19. Scovill Interview, CWA, CSHS., J. A. K. Crawford, CWA, CSHS., and Mock, "Boom," p. 34., and Murray, Lest Forget, pp. 41-43.

20. Alice Wright, "DeBeque, Once a Lusty Western Town, Awaits Oil Shale Resurrection," Colorado West of the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, 29 June 1975, p. 2.

21. Murray, Lest Forget, p. 41-43.

22. Ewing, Berude and Ewing, Early McCoy, p. 12., and Schleicher Interview, CWA, CSHS.

23. Murray, Lest Forget, p. 22.

24. Karl Stumpp, The German-Russians, (New York: Atlantic Forum, 1967), p. 29.

25. No Author, "Growth of the Beet Sugar Industry in Colorado," The Trail, 7 (December 1914): 16-17., hereafter cited: No Author, "Growth Beets.," and Kenneth Rock, "'Unsere Leute': The Germans From Russia in Colorado," The Colorado Magazine, 54 (Spring 1977): 162-163., hereafter cited: Rock, "Unsere."

26. Kenneth Rock, "Colorado's Germans From Russia," in Germans From Russia in Colorado, edited by Sidney Heitman, (Ft. Collins: Western Social Science Association, 1978), pp. 73, 75., hereafter cited: Rock, "Germans."

27. Jeanette LeBeau Interview, CNM., and Rifle, Shots, pp. 44-46., and Murray, Lest Forget, p. 1.

28. James Edward Wright, The Politics of Populism, Dissent in Colorado, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974), pp. 28-33., hereafter cited: Wright, Politics Populism.

29. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," p. 4., and J. A. K. Crawford, CWA, CSHS.

30. No Author, Fruita, Colorado, (Fruita, CO: Fruita Board of Information, 1910), pp. 36-37., hereafter cited: No Author, Fruita.

31. No Author, A Hundred Years of Irrigation in Colorado, (Ft. Collins: The Colorado Water Conservation Board and Colorado Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1952), pp. 2-5., hereafter cited: No Author, Hundred Irrigate., and Alfred R. Golze, Reclamation in the United States, (Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers Ltd., 1961), p. 1., hereafter cited: Golze, Reclamation.

32. No Author, Hundred Irrigate, pp. 2-6.

33. Borland, "Ho" p. 58., and Ferdinand V. Hayden, Tenth Annual Report of the Survey of the Territories, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 187), pp. 13-14.

34. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," pp. 14-15.

35. Murray, Lest Forget, p. 62.

36. Ralph W. and Clarence L. Danielson, Basalt: A Colorado Midland Town, (Boulder: Pruett Press, 1971), p. 32., hereafter cited: Danielson, Basalt.

37. Bergner, "Fruita," p. 137., and William May Manuscript, "Introduction of Sugar Beet Culture to the Grand Valley," State Historical Society of Colorado, pp. 19-20., hereafter cited: May, "Introduction."

38. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," pp. 14-18.

39. Bergner, "Fruita," pp. 16, 50-51.

40. Ibid., p. 51.

41. No Author, Hundred Irrigate, pp. 79-80., and Eyers "Palisade," p. 3., and Wright, Politics Populism, p. 32.

42. Golze, Reclamation, p. 11., and Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," pp. 18-20., and Eyers, "Palisade," p. 4.

43. Alice Wright, "Garmesa: An Ambitious Agricultural Experiment That Failed," Colorado West of the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, May 1973, pp. 1-2., hereafter cited: Wright, "Garmesa."

44. Ibid., pp. 2-4., and Bergner, "Fruita," p. 117.

45. Wright, "Garmesa," pp. 1, 4.

46. Kenneth Lee Leathers, "Economics of Controlling Saline Irrigation Return in Colorado," (Ph.D. Dissertation, Colorado State University, 1976), pp. 13-24.

47. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," pp. 14-18, 127., and Lykes Interview, CNM.

48. Wright, Politics Populism, p. 32., and Bergner, "Fruita," pp. 50-51.

49. Wright, Politics Populism, pp. 39-40, 99-102.

50. Donald A. McKendrick, "Before the Newlands Act: State Sponsored Reclamation Projects in Colorado, 1888-1902," The Colorado Magazine, 52 (Winter 1975):5.

51. Golze, Reclamation, pp. 15-16., and Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," p. 127.

52. Edward T. Taylor Papers, Scrapbook 13, NLWH.

53. May, "Introduction," p. 8.

54. Murray, Lest Forget, pp. 4-5., and McCabe, Descriptive Eagle, p. 6., and Frank L. Wentworth, Aspen on the Roaring Fork, (Denver: World Press, 1950), p. 72., hereafter cited: Wentworth, Aspen, Roaring.

55. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," pp. 8-9.

56. Ibid., pp. 9, 30, 80.

57. Underhill, CWA, CSHS.

58. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," pp. 28.

59. Ibid.

60. Bergner, "Fruita," pp. 14-15.

61. William E. Pabor, Fruit Culture in Colorado, (Denver: Dove and Temple Job Printers, 1883), pp. 79-80.

62. Bergner, "Fruita," pp. 5, 18, 30-32., and The Fruita, Colorado, Times, 15 October 1959.

63. Eyers, "Palisade," p. 38., and Murray, Lest Forget, p. 31.

64. Bergner, "Fruita", p. 116., and No Author, Fruita, and No Author, Irrigated Fruit Lands in the Antlers-Silt District, (Colorado Springs: Antlers Orchard Development Company, 1910)., and No Author, The Little Empire of the Western Slope, (Colorado Springs: Reed Investment Co., 1906)., and Clarence A. Lyman, The Orchard Town of Loma in the Grand Valley, Colorado, (Denver: Thompson-Olmsted Co., 1910), pp. 13-17., hereafter cited: Lyman, Loma.

65. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," p. 30., and Mary Rait, "Development of the Peach Industry in the Colorado River Valley," The Colorado Magazine, 22 (November 1945): 246-248., hereafter cited: Rait, "Peaches.," and Therese Westermeier, "Colorado Festivals," The Colorado Magazine, 30 (July 1953): 197, 210.

66. No Author, Fruita, frontpiece., and No Author, Irrigated Silt, photo section.

67. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," p. 37., Rait, "Peaches," p. 247., and Eyers, "Palisade," pp. 11, 21, 45., and No Author, Irrigated Silt.

68. Rait, "Peaches," pp. 246-248., and Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," p. 28.

69. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," pp. 28-29.

70. Ibid., pp. 50-54 and Rait, "Peaches," pp. 247-248.

71. Rait, "Peaches," p. 247., and Eyers, "Palisade," p. 44.

72. Rait, "Peaches," p. 252., and Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," pp. 49-50.

73. Eyers, "Palisade," pp. 4,6,7.

74. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," pp. 47-53., and Lyman, Loma, p. 8.

75. Lyman, Loma, p. 8., and Bergner, "Fruita," pp. 38-41.

76. No Author, Fruita, p. 35.

77. H. A. Hall Interview, CWA, CSHS.

78. No Author, Fruita, pp. 7-9., and Eyers, "Palisade," pp. 7, 21, 40.

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

80. Ibid., pp. 4546.

81. Ibid., pp. 50-56.

82. Ibid., p. 70.

83. Ibid., and Eyers, "Palisade," pp. 25-29., and Fruita, Colorado, Times, 15 October 1959.

84. Rait, "Peaches," p. 249., and Bergner, "Fruita," p. 117., and Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," pp. 46, 80-81.

85. Barkalow Barnacle, "Characters of the Early Days," The Trail, 14 (October 1921): 11.

86. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," pp. 80-81., and No Author, Fruita, p. 7.

87. No Author, "Growth Beets," pp. 11-12.

88. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," pp. 74-75., and William May Manuscript, "The Sugar Campaigns of the Colorado Sugar Company," State Historical Society of Colorado, p. 4., hereafter cited: May, "Sugar Campaign."

89. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," p. 73., and William May Manuscript, "The Grand Junction Beet Sugar Factory," State Historical Society of Colorado, pp. 1-3., hereafter cited: May, "Grand Junction Beets."

90. May, "Introduction," pp. 11-13.

91. Ibid., pp. 13-14.

92. May, "Grand Junction Beets," pp. 1-3., and Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," p. 73.

93. May, "Grand Junction Beets," p. 1.

94. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," pp. 74-75.

95. Ibid., and May, "Grand Junction Beets," p. 2.

96. May, "Grand Junction Beets," p.3.

97. Ibid., p. 2.

98. Ibid., p. 5., and Geraldine Bowles Bean, "Charles Boettcher, A Study in Pioneer Western Enterprise," (Ph.D Dissertation, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1973), p. 254., hereafter cited: Bean, "Boettcher."

99. Bean, "Boettcher," p. 255., and May, "Grand Junction Beets," pp. 10-16.

100. May, "Grand Junction Beets," pp. 10, 16., and Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," p. 76.

101. May, "Grand Junction Beets," p. 4.

102. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," p. 74.

103. Ibid., "Sugar Campaign," pp.1,8,15.

104. May, "Sugar Campaign," pp. 13-14.

105. Ibid., pp. 3-5., and Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," p. 80., and Bergner, "Fruita," pp. 4647.

106. William May Manuscript, "The Grand Junction Sugar Factory After 1901," State Historical Society of Colorado, p. 7., hereafter cited: May, "After 1901."

107. Ibid., pp. 8-10., and Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," p. 76.

108. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," pp. 77-79., and May, "After 1901," pp. 10-11.

109. Rifle, Shots, pp. 139-140.

110. Ibid., and No Author, The Grand Valley, Colorado: Rifle to DeBeque, Colorado, (New York: The Watkins Press, n.d)., p. 22., and E. P. Taylor, Farm and Fruit Lands in the Grand River Valley, (Grand Valley, CO: Grand River Irrigation and Development Company, n.d.), p. 2.

111. Murray, Lest Forget, pp. 80 and 82.

112. Rifle, Shots, pp. 138-139., and No Author, The Grand Valley Irrigation District, Briefly Describing The Irrigation System and Many Other Interesting Features, (Denver: Williamson-Haffner, n.d.), p. 12., hereafter cited: No Author, Grand Briefly.

113. Rifle, Shots, pp. 139-140.

114. Ibid., and Murray, Lest Forget, p. 82.

115. Rifle, Shots, pp. 140-141., and No Author, Grand Briefly, pp. 7 and 9., and Historic American Engineering Record, Havemeyer-Wilcox Canal, Library of Congress, April 1979, prepared by Bureau of Land Management, Colorado State Office.

116. Eyers, "Palisade," p. 7.

117. Dan and Mary Roth Interview, CNM., and Woods Interview, CNM.

118. Woods Interview, CNM.

119. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," pp. 46, 77-78., and No Author, "Growth Beets," p. 11.

120. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," p. 78-82., and Bergner, "Fruita," p. 89.



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