An Accomplished Ute Maiden WE-TA-LE-TA Edith Leroy Richardson Each individual who researches and writes about someone from the past, finds as you read their diaries, letters, newspapers reports and comments the long decreased start to speak to you about their life and deeds. You hear a kind of small quiet whisper in your heart and [...]
The love story for so many of our full-of-memories generation is connected to a favorite auto. An automobile allows us to soar imaginatively “like an eagle,” with an excuse of practicality and need. We all have our reasons for owning a vehicle that fits our needs or desires, whether it be an off-road four-wheel drive [...]
Robbery! Tom McCarty, Matt Warner and Butch Cassidy in western Colorado “One of the seven deadly sins is greed. When wed to any other, such as anger, pride or even sloth, a medium for thievery results. Crime in western Colorado has a history and unfortunately, a presence.” Read the whole story here. Thanks to Beacon [...]
Built in 1910, the old Loma School building, located at 1345 13 Road in Loma, housed students grades one through eight. It was a two-story building, with four classrooms per floor. The lower grades had class on the first floor and the higher grades had class on the second floor. The school had two outhouses [...]
Dreamers and doers: The first 30 years of Grand Junction, Part 2 Cultural interests were catered to early on with plays, musical performances and other entertainment. The town also hosted traveling professional performers. The Floradora Girls and Harry Houdini were particularly popular acts staged at the Park Opera House, with tickets priced between 50 cents [...]
“What would entice an individual or a family to leave an established home for the unknown? The siren of “possibilities” sings temptingly to dreamers and doers. This pioneering spirit brought the first white settlers to the Western Slope of Colorado, shortly after the White River and Uncompahgre Ute Indians were removed to reservation lands in [...]
“Never judge your neighbor until you have walked 1,000 miles in his (or her) moccasins.” While admonished in this oft-quoted saying to be less judgmental and more empathetic to the plights of others, the illusive image of a Ute Indian in those well-worn moccasins might come to mind for those of us who call Western [...]
“In 1894, Walter B. Cross came to the Grand Valley to open the Mount Lincoln Coal Mine in Palisade. That soon changed when Cross decided to pursue the fruit growing business instead…” Read more about Cross Orchards’ history here. Thanks to the Beacon Magazine for sharing.
“The largest cemetery in Mesa County is the Orchard Mesa Memorial Cemetery, located on Orchard Mesa, caddy corner to Duck Pond Park. Headstones date back as far as 1902, and possibly even further. The cemetery is divided into sections where faithful members of clubs such as the Masonic Lodge, the Odd Fellow Lodge and the [...]
On Thursday, March 17, the Museum of Western Colorado held an all-day kids’ camp, Archaeology and History Adventure, at the Museum of the West. Under the direction of David Bailey, History Curator, the kids learned to excavate artifacts and draw their location on a grid, metal detecting, painted casts and worked hands-on with an archaeologist. [...]