Salida, Colorado
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Photo of the oldest engine in Colorado, #346. Clear, blue skies overhead.
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Manuscript written by Johana Bird Whisenant. Johana discusses her family and growing up in Salida, Colorado.
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Picture of the Denver & Rio Grande Train. Smoke is billowing out the top of the engine.
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Postcard
Winter view of a snow-covered road with a power line crossing it, and men with cars stopped in the snow.
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Gwendolyn McKee talks about the history of her family in Colorado, about working with her mother in Salida hotels, and about her education at Denver’s East High School and at the then Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado. She also discusses her father’s career on the railroad and the prominence of the railroad as an employer in Salida. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries,...
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Dixie and Leon Stanton reminisce about the downtown businesses that populated F Street during the 1960s and 70s. Leon was the extension agent for Chaffee County and remembers 4H and his crew, including Bernice Miller, who helped out during fairs. Dixie sang in the Methodist Church choir and also worked for Bob Biglow's surveying company.
