John B. Hurlburt [1839-1923]

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Sheep herder and founder of Parachute, CO. In September 1894, in an event known as the "Peach Day Massacre," John Hurlburt was forced into bankruptcy after masked men killed 3,800 of his sheep.

Source: 
^{Lest We Forget, A Short History of  Early Grand Valley, Colorado, Originally Called Parachute, Colorado, by Erlene Durrant Murray, 1973, https://mountainscholar.org/bitstream/handle/11124/71607/Lest_We_Forget.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y}
Bloody Grass: Western Colorado Range Wars, 1881-1934: A Study of the Sheepwars.  6(2)  Spring 1991 https://spl.cde.state.co.us/artemis/umcserials/umc319internet/umc319v6n21991internet.pdf
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