Andrew E. Riddle describes life in the Paradox Valley area of Montrose County, Colorado. He focuses on the violent history of the valley, and describes several murders that occurred there. In the second recording, Riddle talks about religion in Paradox, Colorado, including the building of the non-denominational Red Church in the 1940’s, which once had a shooting range in the basement. Riddle also touches on bootlegging days, burial procedures of...

In an uncharacteristically short interview given at his 88th birthday party, Al Look tells local radio personality Bob Collins about helping to publish a comic newspaper at the University of Nebraska, about the dinosaur find in No Thoroughfare Canyon that led to his interest in archaeology, and about a dig on an Ancestral Pueblo culture site near Montrose, Colorado. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration...