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"Colorado's big game season has been postponed a week, and ... will open Oct. 24 on the Western Slope and run thru Nov. 9. Postponement was at the request of federal and state land use agencies, who state the fire hazard is more acute this year than last year, and at an extremely high point." -- Eagle Valley Enterprise Oct. 8, 1953 p.1
The line of hunters trying to get elk licenses validated stretched for quite a way in front of the Eagle County...
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Walter Flasche talks about his birth in Nebraska and moving to De Beque, Colorado with his parents via covered wagon around 1908. He remembers life in the Roan Creek area, severe drought and heavy snows. He recalls battles between cattle ranchers and sheep ranchers in the area. He speaks about his work as a logger and his work in the nascent oil shale industry. He describes how hard the life of a rancher and oil shale worker was, and how his wife...
