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117th annual celebration of Cattlemen's Days Rodeo in Gunnison, Colorado.
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In August 1972, the artist Christo and his wife Jean-Claude installed an orange curtain in the Rifle Gap valley. The curtain tore shortly after installation and had to be removed.
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Festivities held in 1957 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Grand Junction’s founding. It was organized by the Grand Junction Festival Company. Different events were held as part of the commemoration. In his oral history interview, radio broadcaster Robert “Bob” Collins recalls that he and three other men, including Paul Strout and Hank Vogt, dressed up like Doc Holiday and staged gunfights on Main Street against Audrey Thrailkill, Bill...
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An annual, professional rodeo that was held in Grand Junction, Colorado for several years. It was begun by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and taken over by the Mesa County Sheriff Posse in 1957. The rodeos were held on North Avenue at the location of a motor speedway (later the Kmart location at 2809 North Avenue), at the fairgrounds in Lincoln Park, and later at Uranium Downs, the Mesa County Fairgrounds location in Orchard Mesa. It was considered...
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A long-running high school marching band competition of mostly Western Slope bands held annually in Grand Junction, Colorado. It was preceded by the Western Slope Marching Band Competition, and first organized by Wyatt Wood of the Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce. Bands marched in a parade on Main Street, and then compete in a field competition at Lincoln Park.
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An annual event held at Fruita, Colorado's first fairgrounds on Aspen Avenue, in the early part of the Twentieth century. It began in 1914 and continued through the 1950's, when it became the Hunter's Roundup, a celebration to begin hunting season. By the 1970's, the celebration had morphed again, becoming the Fruita Fall Fest. The Fruita Fall Fest continues today.
*Information for this description was taken from the Fruita Chamber of Commerce,...
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In 1896, two fires separated by 96 hours burned much of the town down. According to oral history interviewee Grace Wade, the first fire was supposedly caused by an argument between a miner and his 'lady friend'. A lamp was kicked over and it set fire to her building where a heavy wind blew it all over town. Buildings were later rebuilt with brick to prevent another fire.
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According to former game warden John Duncan Hart, the last grizzly bear in Mesa County was shot by a man named Sills on the Uncompahgre sometime around 1912. The bear was known as Big-foot Mary. A Daily Sentinel article from October 22, 1925 reports the incident differently. A hunter named Ed Gill shot Big Foot Mary in October of 1925, and did so in the Dominguez area. According to the Sentinel article, Mary weighed 905 pounds and had a footprint...
