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In a recording made for his son, Don Rogers talks about his family’s cattle ranch on Pinon Mesa in the 1910’s, about getting lost in the wilderness at the age of six, about an expert tracker named Avery Burford who led the search party, and about being found the next morning after he spent the night alone on a sandbar of East Creek. He recalls a gunfight between cowboys Louis Stewart and Blue, a shooting by a man named Pete Lapham, and tensions...
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Joe Carns talks about his upbringing in Kansas and Iowa, his family’s arrival in Colorado, and his family history. He describes Glenwood Canyon, De Beque Canyon, Grand Junction, and other places the family traveled through or stayed. He discusses his early jobs bootlegging, making deliveries, spraying in orchards, and working as a cowboy. He describes the farm and ranching life on Glade Park and Pinon Mesa, talks about the settlement of the area,...