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James Brouse discusses moving and going to school in Glade Park, Colorado as a young boy in 1915. He tells tales of cowpunching in the canyons near Westwater, homesteading, the difficulties of dry farming, and the methods and difficulties of transportation into town from up on Glade Park. He also talks about local murders, sheep and cattlemen wars, and the history of different schools in the area. His wife Ellen (Morse) Brouse, longtime Mesa County...
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Ruth Morris talks about her life growing up on a ranch in the Kannah Creek area of Mesa County, Colorado in the 1910’s and 1920’s. She speaks about her grandfather and parents, who came to Grand Junction in the 1890’s, about her grandfather’s saloon, her father’s job as a cook at the Pasttime Café, and the band her parents formed (they were both musicians). She recalls her marriage to Lawrence Learned and their ranch in Kannah Creek. She...