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Position: Looking Back
Position: Montezuma County Historical Society
Position: Montezuma County Historical Society
Position: As told to Eldon Zwicker
Position: February 1985
Position: For MONTEZUMA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Communities: Beulah, Lewis, Yellow Jacket, Goodman Point, Blue Door, Cahone, Rico, Cortez, Pleasant View and Old Ackmen. During the summer and fall, the games were played on Sunday. Each area had...
DATE: April 26, 2021 | COLUMN: Looking back
Leopold Carl Gottfried Grasse (pronounced “Grassy”) and his wife, Augusta (nee Shoneboom) Grasse, came to Cortez about 1909. Both descended from German immigrants and spoke German as well as...
DATE: April 1, 2021 | COLUMN: Looking back
Dr. Royal W. Calkins was born March 18, 1870, in Wyoming, Iowa. Lorilla Calkins Crowson shared her memories of her father in 1987. “As a boy, he moved with his family to the homestead in Nebraska....
DATE: Feb. 26, 2021 | COLUMN: Looking back
Editor’s note: The following column is based on excerpts from a manuscript by Dora Pederson that was read at a Women’s Club Meeting in 1934. By The Montezuma County Historical Society Prospectors...
DATE: Jan. 27, 2021 | COLUMN: Looking back
Editor’s note: This article was reprinted from Silver World Newspaper Oct 5, 1878, Hinsdale County. Our intention in coming back to Bradford’s ranch on the Mancos, was to get a supply of provisions...
DATE: Dec. 28, 2020 | COLUMN: Looking back
In February 1914 a sheepherder by the name of Juan Chacon had been herding sheep for some Colorado sheep men in the vicinity of East McElmo Canyon. He quit his job, drew all of his wages, and...
DATE: Nov. 24, 2020 | COLUMN: Looking back
Part 2 The first record of irrigation in McElmo was 1888, and four ranches hold this priority. Most all the McElmo Canyon ranches hold early water rights. About 1928, John Miller sold his holding...
DATE: Oct. 30, 2020 | COLUMN: Looking back
Editor’s note: Part 2 of Walter Hall’s McElmo History will appear in Looking Back article on Nov. 4. The first record of irrigation in McElmo Canyon was in 1888. Four ranches held this priority;...
DATE: Oct. 3, 2020 | COLUMN: Looking back
In 1919, it was decided that to have a more complete athletic program, a gymnasium was needed. Money for the gym was collected from pledges of students and interested citizens. Plays were given....
DATE: Sept. 1, 2020 | COLUMN: Looking back
Editor’s note: This article was provided by Pat Castle. It was printed in Volume Four of Great Sage Plain to Timberline “Our Pioneer History.” Castle’s grandfather was James Earl Lynton, son of...
DATE: Aug. 1, 2020 | COLUMN: Looking back
Editor’s note: The following was read by Mrs. A. W. Dillon at the Pioneers’ Reunion on Sept. 4, 1908. The glint of gold first lured the prospector with the pick, shovel and pan strapped on the back...
DATE: June 30, 2020 | COLUMN: Looking back
Editor’s note: This article is based on an interview Anna Florence Robison had with J.M. Rush Jr. and his granddaughter, Minnie Rush. J.M. Rush Sr. died in 1917. Montezuma County Historical Society...
DATE: May 31, 2020 | COLUMN: Looking back
