by Joyce Lawrence

Mrs. Matt Hammond

Virginia Graham

Position: Looking Back

Frank Pyle

Sarah Elizabeth Walker Moore

Gladys Guillet Hart

by Gladys Guillet Hart

Gladys Hart

by Carrie Smith Dunham

Carrie Smith Dunham

George Sam Todd

Dale Davidson

by Dale Davidson

Position: Montezuma County Historical Society

Bob Bernhart and Dale Davidson

Bob Bernhart

June Head

Position: Montezuma County Historical Society

June Head and Joyce Lawrence

June Head

Mary McKinley Blake

Erastus “Ras” Thompson

William C. Winkler

Howard J. Hanna

Montezuma County Historical Society

The Montezuma County Historical Society

Fannie Wade

The Montezuma Historical Society

Position: As told to Eldon Zwicker

Eldon Zwicker

Position: February 1985

Frank L. Pyle

Morgan Draper

Montezuma Historical Society

Paul Crawford

Position: For MONTEZUMA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Mancos 1884: The big snow and other travails

Editor’s note: This article, the second of two parts, is based on an interview with Anna Florence Robinson on July 17, 1934. Part 1 was published April 3. From The Montezuma County Historical...

DATE: May 7, 2020 | COLUMN: Looking back

James Martin Rush Jr. and the quest for a lost mine

Editor’s note: This article, the first of two parts, is based on an interview with Anna Florence Robinson on July 17, 1934. Part 2 will publish May 1, barring unforeseen circumstances. I was born...

DATE: March 31, 2020 | COLUMN: Looking back

The ranch at Big Bend, and trouble with builders and Native Americans

Editor’s note: This article is based on Anna Florence Robison’s interview with Hattie Johnson Porter of Dolores on March 26, 1934. By Montezuma County Historical Society My father, Charles Johnson,...

DATE: March 2, 2020 | COLUMN: Looking back

My experiences as a pioneer in the Mancos Valley

Editor’s note: This article is based on Anna Florence Robinson’s interview with Mrs. Jack J. Wade dated March 21, 1934. In the summer of 1879, my father, J. M. Rush, and my husband left Butte...

DATE: Feb. 6, 2020 | COLUMN: Looking back

Looking Back: Planes drop food to 10 marooned on rail bus in Colorado Rockies

Editor’s note: Information on the article has been furnished by Wendy Usher Wheaton, daughter of Rollin Usher and by Sharon Van Dusen, great niece of Walter Virden. Without their assistance, the...

DATE: Dec. 30, 2019 | COLUMN: Looking back

Pioneering in Southwestern Colorado, part 3

Editor’s note: This column, the last of three parts, was written by Fred Taylor based on an interview with Anna Florence Robison in 1934. By Fred Taylor The first fight was on July 3, 1884. The...

DATE: Dec. 2, 2019 | COLUMN: Looking back

Pioneering in Southwestern Colorado

Editor’s note: This column, the second of three parts, was written by Fred Taylor based on an interview with Anna Florence Robison in 1934. Part 3 of Pioneering in Southwestern Colorado will be...

DATE: Oct. 29, 2019 | COLUMN: Looking back

Looking back: Pioneering in Southwest Colorado in 1882

Editor’s note: This column, by Fred Taylor, was based on an interview with Anna Florence Robison in 1934. Part 2 of Pioneering in Southwestern Colorado will be published Nov. 1 in The Journal....

DATE: Oct. 2, 2019 | COLUMN: Looking back

New school launches a new century in Cortez

Editor’s note: Following are two articles about the Calkins Building, published by the Montezuma Journal, that were written at the beginning of the school year and after the first class graduated....

DATE: Sept. 2, 2019 | COLUMN: Looking back

Moving from Texas to Big Bend

Editor’s note: The following is based on a Anna Florence Robison interview of Alice Henderson Akin on March 13, 1934. I was born at Millville, Rust County, Texas, Sept. 25, 1855. My early childhood...

DATE: Aug. 1, 2019 | COLUMN: Looking back

Elbert Nunn weaves a colorful history and legacy

Editor’s note: This column about the life of Elbert “Al” Nunn is based on an interview by Anna Florence Robison in March 1934. The first three parts were published the first Friday of April, May...

DATE: July 2, 2019 | COLUMN: Looking back

A shootout and the legendary racehorse Jim Douglas

Editor’s note: This column about the life of Elbert “Al” Nunn is based on an interview by Anna Florence Robison in March 1934. The first two parts were published the first Friday of April and May....

DATE: June 3, 2019 | COLUMN: Looking back

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