From left, Buddy and Kevin Doll at the Dotsero house,standing next to snow-covered station wagon in December 1954. The dome covered structed in the background is the ice house; the other structure is the spring house. They still reside on what is now the Stephens property.

Main Street in Gilman after a heavy snowfall. The license plate on the first car may read 1934. Storefronts show business names and products.

Walter Flasche talks about his birth in Nebraska and moving to De Beque, Colorado with his parents via covered wagon around 1908. He remembers life in the Roan Creek area, severe drought and heavy snows. He recalls battles between cattle ranchers and sheep ranchers in the area. He speaks about his work as a logger and his work in the nascent oil shale industry. He describes how hard the life of a rancher and oil shale worker was, and how his wife...