Pioneer life at Big Bend in 1882 Part 3: Continued from September

A man who had notified us of the Indian scare went on up the river telling people.Everyone was going up to Grandpa Johnson’s place on the river where the Indians could not well ambush the...

DATE: Oct. 2, 2014 | COLUMN: Looking back

Pioneer Life at Big Bend on The Dolores River in 1882

We were very comfortable on our place at Lone Dome. Our neighbors were the Barnes family, Gene and Charley Salter, Jim Trimble, some English people, a bit later, the Dillons, and the Bradfields....

DATE: Sept. 11, 2014 | COLUMN: Looking back

Life at Lone Dome and Big Bend in 1882

I was born on Feb. 4, 1859, in Iowa. There were nine of us children, and I had a twin brother to whom I was much attached.All but three of us children were born in Indiana, and I had an older...

DATE: July 31, 2014 | COLUMN: Looking back

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