Mesa County Oral History Project ➔ Rose and Morgan Goss Oral History | Early Days In Fruita And Grd. Jct.
Oral History -- Audiocassette
Identifier:
9.1975Description
Rose and Morgan Goss discuss the early settlement of Grand Junction and Fruita, Colorado, and agricultural life in the Appleton area.Enoch's Lake, Pinyon Mesa; W.A.Lynch, Tourist Wagon; Lincoln Park Fair; Claims, Grd. Jct. Grand Mesa; Divided Skirts; Hunters School; The Kiefer Family; Sam Hill, Threshing Machine; Holland Store, Kiefers; List Of Schools; Fruita Area; Indians; C P Bliss And Rose's Fancy Hat; Fair Store, Moyer And Cravan; Packing Pears, Cravan Orchard; Kill Worms On Apple Trees With Gunny Sacks; Prichard Family History; Nelson Pritchard; Grd. Valley Ditch; Bunting, Grd. Jct. News; Gov. Crawford; JAK Crawford; Brickyard; Crawford Addition; Adventist Church And School; KKK; Finances Of Orchards; Sugar Beets; Sugar Beet Factory; Tomato Canning Factory; Waddells Meat Packing Plant; Pastime Cafe; Airplane Rides; Marshall Pass; George Gates; Gunnison; Smallpox; Sapenaro; Black Canyon; Tom Crawford; James Bucklin; Grd. Jct News; The Pig's Eye; The Pig's Ear Hotel; Danny's Miller's House, Fire From Oil Shale; List Of Pioneers; Hunter District; Standpipe Water Tank; Orchard Mesa Coal Mines; Loback School; Corcoran Dairy; Pritchard Mesa; Copeco Fruit Ranch; Pears; Pacific Slope Ditch; Pioneer Or Mesa Cty. Ditch; Independent Ranchman's Ditch; Grd. Valley Irrigation Company Ditch; Indians; Harold Bryant; Floods; Highline Canal; Churning Butter For Sale;april Fool's Tricks; Mulberries; Fruita School District #2; Sheep-cattle War; Interurban; Star Bakery; Indians At The Bakery; Hats; Ford Cars; Peaches; Canning Tomatoes; Ditchriders; Ruby Canyon; Building Railroad Bridges; Cowpunchers' Reunion
Interview Date:
May 7 1975Rights:
copyright Museums of Western ColoradoRelated collection
Mesa County Oral History Project The Mesa County Oral History Project began as a joint project of the Museums of Western Colorado and Mesa County Libraries (MCL) in 1975.What IS Oral History?
An oral history is an audio or video recording of a person speaking about their personal, lived experience of historical events.
Note that in some cases, the same OH numb...
Related people
Morgan Goss (narrator)Rose Pritchard Goss (narrator)
Joseph Alexander Knox Crawford (references)
Related places
Grand Junction (references)Fruita (references)
COPECO (references)