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Andrew E. Riddle discusses working for the National Guard during a miner’s strike in southern Colorado, the Ludlow Massacre, the horrible mining conditions faced by miners, the joys and woes of cattle ranching and farming, how the Great Depression effected cattle business and personal finances, and purchasing lambs and sheep from the Navajo Indians in New Mexico. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration...
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Grand Junction, Colorado newspaper columnist, amateur historian, geologist and paleontologist Al Look discusses the Soup Eaters organization that he helped found during the Great Depression, Dalton Trumbo, American Indian archaeology and digs on the Western Slope, and his contacts with the Navajo. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.