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A line camp above the Chester Mayer ranch on the west range during summer grazing.
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Pastures at Beaver Creek, July 24, 1928.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Cheri and Sam Robinson standing in front of their sheep camp at Ptarmigan Pass, August 1991. The Robinsons, from Piceance Creek (near Rifle, Colorado), run their sheep in Summer pastures around Pando (Camp Hale), Colorado.
The Robinson's created a poster for the Pathfinder Camporee (1985), held at Camp Hale, Colorado, featuring their sheep grazing in the remains of the Army Camp. [Poster in EVLD's Rare collection: RAREdr 978.844 P2975]
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This photograph is featured on a page with others under the title "Fine Peaceful Pasture" in the Edwards School Scrapbook, page 15. The scrapbook was completed as a youth citizens' league project between 1954-1955.
A cow with a bridle can be seen grazing between the aspens. The photograph is damaged and cracked, an example of how detrimental heavyweight paper can be to aging photographs.
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"Fine peaceful pastures" - caption from Edwards School Scrapbook, page 15. The scrapbook was created as a youth citizens' league project between 1954-1955. An unidentified man on a horse watches over a group of heifers and several calves on open range.
This photograph has been edited to remove black corners used to secure the item in the scrapbook.
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Sheep graze in the pasture. Each sheep has a name, from left to right: 54, 69, All Day, Teddy Bear, (unnamed), Dirty Face, Bunny Rabbit, Tripy, (unnamed), Billy Good, and Poll Parrot (?). There is also a horse (right background), a tractor (far left), and other farm equipment in the background.
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Lucille Mahannah, an early education and civic leader in Mesa County, describes her early life on the Hunter Ranch, a ranch established by her family in what later became the Hunter District. She also talks about her career in education as a teacher and as the Mesa County Superintendent of Schools. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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Charles "Frank" Moore discusses tensions between cattle and sheep ranchers before and after the passage of the Taylor Grazing Act, land management, and his career in the U.S. Grazing Service as the Regional Grazier for the area covering Eastern Utah and Western Colorado. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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Frances Watson retells the story and history of her esteemed husband, George Watson. Watson was an influential cattleman, stockman, and rangeman, who helped secure grazing rights, served on advisory boards for different livestock and agriculture organizations, and was a rancher himself. Watson served a term as Eagle County Commissioner. Frances tells stories of riding on long cattle and horse drives, helping her husband in remote areas of wilderness,...
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To mark the centennial celebration of the town of Grand Junction, Colorado in 1981, the Mesa County Oral History Project wrote and recorded several radio plays about local history. Beginning on September 26, 1981, local radio stations KSTR, KREX-AM, KREX-FM, and KMSA broadcast the plays. Authors of the plays used interviews recorded by the Mesa County Oral History Project as inspiration. This archival recording contains the play Overheard at the Cattle...
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Early Mesa County resident Joseph John Egger describes his travels to the Grand Valley area, the Colorado National Monument, the differences he perceived between Utes and Navajos, and information about Chief Ouray and Chipeta. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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William Raber talks about his family’s ranch in the Kannah Creek area of Mesa County, Colorado, and about the development of reservoirs and water projects, beginning with the city of Grand Junction’s diversion of water from Kannah Creek around 1910. He also talks about traveling by train with cattle that he intended to sell in Los Angeles, and about discrimination that he experienced during World War I as the son of German immigrant. The interview...
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Bill Raber, a longtime rancher, discusses the history of ranching in Delta and Mesa Counties and the relationship between cattle and sheep ranchers. He also talks about the history of Grand Junction and its growth, and about water development and rights disputes on the Grand Mesa. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado and the Mesa County Historical...
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Winston Spangler is Interviewed by Roger Muhme, Larry Ball, and Roger Bidell about his life living on different ranches in Colorado and elsewhere.
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Winston Spangler is Interviewed by Roger Muhme, Larry Ball, and Roger Bidell about his life living on different ranches in Colorado and elsewhere.
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Karl and Nellie Linn discuss the history of their pioneer family in Plateau Valley, cattle ranching in the area, and local people. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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John Collier explains his childhood growing up as a homesteader in Pinon Mesa and the Glade Park area, and living in a tent until a cabin could be built. He talks about how his father made money in real estate, farming hay, selling horses, selling lumber for corrals, raising sheep and cattle, and skating on the frozen Redlands Canal. He mentions important landmarks and buildings in and around Grand Junction, Colorado. The interview was conducted by...
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Glenn Edward Rogers talks about his early life in Cripple Creek and his military service during World War II. He discusses his early career as a biologist in wildlife management for the Bureau of Land Management’s Division of Wildlife (BLM). He remembers conducting deer counts on the Western Slope in the 1940’s and controversy around doe hunting season, the number of hunting licenses issued, and range deterioration. He speaks about the Division...
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Lawrence Aubert talks about his father’s immigration from France and his arrival on Pinon Mesa in 1926, where he homesteaded and ran sheep. He remembers changes in sheep ranching after the passage of the Taylor Grazing Act, sheep rustling, and friction between sheep and cattle ranchers. He discusses the effect of predatory animals on sheep herd size on Pinon Mesa. He talks about Basque and Mexican immigrants who came to herd sheep in Colorado and...
