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Colonel Forrest Carhartt talks about his experiences as one of the US National Guard troops sent to the Mexican border, and into Mexico itself, in response to Pancho Villa’s raid on Columbus, New Mexico. He compares his military experiences on the Mexican border with his experiences during World War I. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado. *Photograph...
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In an interview from May 14, 1981 (audio only, no transcript), Basil T. Knight talks about his youth in Michigan, meeting his wife’s family in Palisade, Colorado and ultimately moving there, operating a fruit farm, and becoming a lifelong teacher and school administrator. He explains the mechanisms that originally funded the many smaller school districts on the Western Slope, including taxes on railroads, and the reasons for the consolidation that...