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An arts competition open to all United States Veterans who were honorably discharged and are using V.A. health care. The first competition in Grand Junction, Colorado was held in November 1997 and contained five divisions: visual arts, creative writing, music, singing and dancing, and performance. First prize winners advance to the national competition, which holds week long festivities. The festival continues to this day.
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Sometime in the 1910's, Indian Henry, a Ute raised by white settlers in the Paradox Valley, was shot and killed by his friend, the Finish immigrant and miner John Keski. The shooting took place in a boarding house in Bull Canyon that was owned by W.L. Cummings and run by Laura Foster. According to the stepchildren of Keski, Earl Foster and Ella (Foster) O'Brien, their mother Laura Foster was playing cards with Keski, Henry and other men. Keski and...
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A flood that occurred when levees on the Arkansas River were breached after heavy rainfall. The flood began on June 3rd, and flood waters reached a height of 27.36 feet. Somewhere between 150 to 250 people died in the flooding, and much of the city was destroyed. 300 square miles were flooded, with hundreds of houses, business and cars demolished (“Anniversary of the Great Pueblo Flood of 1921” by James Rogers, Denver Public Library blog).
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On July 30, 1921, at around 5 p.m., seven men were killed and three were seriously injured in Wheeler Gulch, five miles north of Parachute, Colorado, when a tramway cable slipped loose at the Schuyler-Doyle Shale Company mine. Twelve passengers had boarded the car, the majority of whom had just started working for the mine that very morning. As the car started down the slope, the cable became dislodged from the post it was anchored to, launching the...
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An automobile race that climbs up Land’s End Road on the Grand Mesa. When the race began in 1941, drivers started at the Anderson Ranch and worked their way up to the shelter house. Early participants included Louie Unser (brother of famous racers Al and Bobby Unser), who had won the Pikes Peak Race. Al Rogers, four-time winner of the Pike Peak Hill Climb, was also a frequent racer at Land's End. The race was organized by the Grand Junction Chamber...
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The celebration of Grand Junction’s 100th anniversary. Activities began in September of 1981, corresponding with the 100-year anniversary of the settlement of the first white people in Grand Junction after the forced expulsion and resettlement of the Ute Indians from the area. Activities continued into 1982.
Such activities included the recording of several radio plays about area history for the Grand Junction Centennial Celebration Radio History...
190) Town of Mesa rodeo
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A rodeo organized in part by cowboy and rancher Walter Richard “Dick” Lloyd. It took place in Mesa and attracted competition from nearby areas. According to Lloyd, the rodeo offered no prize money, but organizations such as the Denver Livestock Commission Company would donate bridles and other prizes. Lloyd often won the roping challenge, while his wife Bertha, a great horseback rider, often won the cowgirl award.
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Sometime in the 1930’s, a monkey named Betty escaped from the Lincoln Park Zoo. The Lincoln Park Zoo was a small zoo that was located in Grand Junction’s Lincoln Park in the early and mid-Twentieth century. According to William "Bill" Ela, who grew up to become a Mesa County District Court judge, the animal had escaped two times before. The zookeeper had been able to catch her and return her to her enclosure both times. After her third escape,...
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On May 2, 1982, Exxon announced that it was pulling out of its 60% share in the Colony Shale Oil Project near Parachute, Colorado due to the rapidly declining price of oil and the high expenses of producing synthetic oil from shale. The effects on the local economy were immediate and devastating, causing businesses to fold, real estate values to plummet, and leading to layoffs of 2,200 Exxon workers. In the years between 1983 and 1985, nearly 24,000...
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The following description of the event comes from author Ruth G. Moss: “The Sieber Cattle Company was formed in 1897, just five years before his death. About this time, Joe Harris had benn hired by the firm. He and Sieber did not get along very well to say the least, so Harris quit in a few months. From then on, both Sieber and Harris accused each other of branding each other’s cattle. Harris had his headquarters at Westwater, Utah. The day of...
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The 1918 flu pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. It infected 500 million people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million (three to five percent of the world's population), making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history.
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Robbers stole a safe from the post office. It was suspected that the robbers were holed up in the Palisade Mine, and so guards, including Virgil Hickman, were posted outside of the mine. The robbers were never caught, though the safe was found without its contents along the railroad tracks.
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59th annual celebration of the Cattlemen's Days rodeo in Gunnison, Colorado.
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66th Annual celebration of the Cattlemen's Days Rodeo in Gunnison, Colorado.
