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

1. G. Michael McCarthy, Hour of Trial, The Conservation Movement in Colorado and the West, 1891-1907, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977), pp. 12, 17, and 19., hereafter cited: McCarthy, Hour.

2. Roy Robbins, Our Landed Heritage, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1976), pp. 217-220.

3. McCarthy, Hour, pp. 16-17.

4. Ibid., pp. 22-24.

5. Ibid., pp. 15-17, 19-20.

6. Ibid., p. 153., and James Edward Wright, The Politics of Populism, Dissent in Colorado, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974), p. 38., hereafter cited: Wright, Politics Populism., and Len Shoemaker, Roaring Fork Valley, An Illustrated Chronicle, (Silverton, CO.: Sundance Publications, 1973), pp. 55-57., hereafter cited: Shoemaker, Illustrated Roaring., and Thomas Baker Interview, CWA, CSHS.

7. McCarthy, Hour, pp. 16-17 and 28.

8. Ibid., p. 29., and Len Shoemaker, Saga of a Forest Ranger: A Biography of William R. Kreutzer, Forest Ranger No. 1, and a Historical Account of the United States Forest Service in Colorado, (Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 1958), pp. 23 and 32., hereafter cited: Shoemaker, Saga.

9. Shoemaker, Saga, p. 103., and McCarthy, Hour, p. 42., and 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. 125-126., hereafter cited: Rait, "Development, Grand Junction".

10. Shoemaker, Saga, p. 103.

11. McCarthy, Hour, pp. 149-152.

12. Robert L. Brown, Holy Cross—The Mountain and the City, (Caldwell, ID.: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1970), p. 23., hereafter cited: Brown, Holy Cross., and Lena M. Urquhart, Glenwood Springs: Spa in the Mountains, (Boulder: Pruett Press, 1970), p. 162., hereafter cited: Urquhart, Spa.

13. Shoemaker, Saga, pp. v-vi. 4-7 and 33.

14. Ibid., pp. 24, 80-84.

15. Ibid., pp. 9, 16.

16. Ibid., p. 101.

17. Ibid., pp. 74-75.

18. Robert Bruce Parham, "William Radcliff and the Grand Mesa Feud," (Senior Thesis, Western State College, 1970), pp. 73-74., hereafter cited: Parham, "Radcliff".

19. Ibid., pp. 74-78 and 86., and The Denver Times, 19 July 1901.

20. Parham, "Radcliff," p. 88.

21. Elmo R. Richardson, The Politics of Conservation, Crusades, and Controversies, 1897-1913, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962), p. 28., hereafter cited: Richardson, Politics., and Thomas F. Dawson, "Teller and Wolcott in Colorado Politics," The Trail, 13 (January 1921): 16-17., hereafter cited: Dawson, "Teller."

22. 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. 253-255, 257., hereafter cited: Goff and McCaffree, Century Saddle.

23. McCarthy, Hour, pp. 45-57.

24. Ibid., pp. 57-62.

25. Ibid., p. 99., and Goff and McCaffree, Century Saddle, pp. 136-138.

26. Goff and McCaffree, Century Saddle, pp. 152-153.

27. McCarthy, Hour, pp. 77, 128-130., and Shoemaker, Saga, p. vi.

28. Shoemaker, Saga, pp. vi, 100.

29. Ibid., p. 134.

30. Ibid., p. 23., and McCarthy, Hour, pp. 77, 95-96.

31. McCarthy, Hour, p. 155.

32. Ibid., pp. 155, 190., and Shoemaker, Saga, pp. 107-108.

33. McCarthy, Hour, p. 107.

34. Ibid., p. 156.

35. Ibid., pp. 156-160.

36. Urquhart, Spa, pp. 107-108., and A. G. Wallihan Interview, CWA, CSHS.

37. McCarthy, Hour, pp. 159, 176, 195.

38. Ibid., pp. 165-167.

39. Ibid., pp. 54-55, 193.

40. Richardson Politics, pp. 80-88.

41. Ibid., pp. 37, 89-92., and McCarthy, Hour, pp. 114-115, 119-120., and Taylor Scrapbooks 10, 13, NLWH.

42. McCarthy, Hour, pp. 212-213., and Goff and McCaffree, Century Saddle, pp. 158-160., and Shoemaker, Saga, pp. 130-131, 147.

43. Shoemaker, Saga, p. 147.

44. Richardson, Politics, p. 12.

45. McCarthy, Hour, pp. 15, 175, 195.

46. Ibid., p. 186, and Urquhart, Spa, pp. 130-131.

47. Don and Mary Roth Interview, CNM., and Marjorie Lykes and Dorothy Beard Interview, CNM.

48. Roth Interview, CNM., Lykes Interview CNM., Al Look Interview, CNM., and Will Minor and Lea Warner Interview, CNM.

49. Lucy Ela Interview, CNM., and Al Look, John Otto and the Colorado National Monument, (Grand Junction: Sandstone Publishing Co., 1962), p. 8., hereafter cited. Look, Otto.

50. Moore Interview, CNM., Look Interview, CNM., and: Minor and Warner Interview, CNM.

51. Look, Otto, p. 9.

52. Ibid., pp. 9-11., and Bergner, "Fruita", p. 127.

53. Look, Otto, pp. 52-54.

54. Ibid., pp. 53-54 and 67-68., and Moore Interview, CNM., Look Interview, CNM., and Lykes and Beard Interview, CNM.

55. Look, Otto, pp. 18-19, 29, 53., and Bergner, "Fruita", pp. 127-128., and Mike Douglas Interview, CNM.

56. George Wharton James, Reclaiming the Arid West, The Story of the United States Reclamation Service, (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1917), p. 116., hereafter cited: James, Reclaiming., and Alfred R. Golze, Reclamation in the United States, (Caldwell, ID.: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1961), p. 26., hereafter cited: Golze, Reclamation.

57. James, Reclaiming, pp. 2-5., and Golze, Reclamation, pp. 16-22.

58. Golze, Reclamation, pp. 16-22.

59. Ibid., p. 13., and James, Reclaiming, pp. 5-8., and John T. Ganoe, "The Origins of a National Reclamation Policy," The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 18 (June 1931): 3940., hereafter cited: Ganoe, "National Policy".

60. James, Reclaiming, pp. 13-23., Golze, Reclamation, p. 13., and Ganoe, "National Policy", pp. 43-52.

61. James, Reclaiming, pp. 16., Richardson, Politics, p. 19., and Golze, Reclamation, p. 13.

62. James, Reclaiming, pp. 16, 32., and Golze, Reclamation, p. 26.

63. James, Reclaiming, p. 119.

64. No Author, Fruita, Colorado, (Fruita, CO: Fruita Bureau of Information, 1910), p. 33., hereafter cited: No Author, Fruita.

65. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," pp. 130-132., and James, Reclaiming, p. 122.

66. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," p. 134.

67. Ibid., p. 133., Bergner, "Fruita," p. 57., and James, Reclaiming, p. 116.

68. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," pp. 133-134., and Bergner, "Fruita", p. 58.

69. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," p. 139.

70. Ibid., pp. 139-141., and Environmental Assessment Statement, Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Project, Bureau of Reclamation, Grand Junction, Colorado, 1977.

71. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," p. 135.

72. Ibid.

73. Taylor Scrapbook 9, NLWH.

74. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," pp. 135-136.

75. Taylor Scrapbook 13, NLWH.

76. Ibid.

77. Rait, "Development, Grand Junction," pp. 136-139.

78. James W. McCreery, "Interstate Waters and the Colorado River Commission," Address presented to the Colorado Bar Association, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1922.

79. Taylor Scrapbook 13, NLWH.

80. Taylor Scrapbook 10, NLWH.

81. Taylor Scrapbook 17, NLWH.

82. Taylor Scrapbook 13, NLWH.

83. 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), pp .172-174., hereafter cited: Smith, "Colorado River."

84. Ibid., pp. 195-210.

85. No Author, The Colorado River, "A Natural Menace Becomes a National Resource," (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1946), p. 3., hereafter cited: No Author, Natural Menace.

86. Ibid., pp. 60-62., and Ralph Carr, "Delph Carpenter and River Compacts Between Western States," The Colorado Magazine, 21 (January 1944): 5, 10-12., hereafter cited: Carr, "Compacts."

87. Smith, "Colorado River," pp. 165-166.

88. Taylor Scrapbooks 9 and 10, NLWH.

89. Taylor Scrapbooks 9 and 20, NLWH.

90. Urquhart, Spa, p. 121.

91. Ibid., pp. 121-122 and 133.

92. No Author, Natural Menace, p. 58.

93. Smith, "Colorado River," pp. 90 and 182.

94. Taylor Scrapbook 9, NLWH.

95. Taylor Scrapbook 13, NLWH.

96. Taylor Scrapbooks 10 and 13, NLWH.

97. Taylor Scrapbook 13, NLWH.

98. Taylor Scrapbook 13, NLWH.

99. Taylor Scrapbook 17, NLWH.

100. Taylor Scrapbook 17, NLWH.

101. Taylor Scrapbook 17, NLWH.

102. Taylor Scrapbook 17, NLWH.

103. Taylor Scrapbook 17, NLWH., and Lykes and Beard Interview, CNM.

104. Taylor Scrapbook 17, NLWH.

105. Woods Interview, CNM.

106. Taylor Scrapbook 17, NLWH.

107. Woods Interview, CNM.

108. McCarthy, Hour, pp. 171-175.

109. Harry K. Savage, The Rock That Burns, (Boulder: Pruett Press, 1967), pp. 28-33.

110. Taylor Scrapbook 20, NLWH.