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Recollections of early Dolores by Erastus Thompson

Editor’s note: This column is the first of two parts about life in early Dolores, Colorado. Part 2 will continue in The Journal on March 2.By Erastus Thompson I was born in Io...

DATE: Jan 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Looking back

Life in Big Bend and the young Cortez in 1885

I was born in Kansas in the Indian Territory in 1870. About five years of age, I came with my family to Colorado, where we lived for a short time. When I was fifteen years, old D...

DATE: Jan 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Looking back

Philip Runck and the spirit of Christmas

Apples were king for rancher, and he shared the wealth during the holidays

DATE: Dec 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Looking back

Emil Johnson and the start of hospital care in Cortez

Emil E. Johnson was born in the south of Sweden in 1882. In 1897, he came with his brother, Otto, to Minnesota but settled on a farm in South Dakota. He did farm work and went to school. He ...

DATE: Dec 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Looking back

Part 2: Living at Big Bend in July 1882

Editor’s note: Part 1 of Mrs. S.O. Morton’s recounting of life at Big Bend was published in The Journal on Oct. 6. These excerpts are from an article in “Volume I, Great Sage Plain to Ti...

DATE: Nov 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Looking back

Living at Big Bend during the 1880s

Editor’s note: Part 2 of Mrs. S.O. Morton recounting of life on the Big Bend will be continued in The Journal on Nov. 3. These excerpts are from article published in “Volume I, Great Sag...

DATE: Oct 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Looking back

Ed Noland’s Four Corners trading posts

Editor’s note: This story was printed in Vol. 3 of the Montezuma County Historical Society’s “Great Sage to Timberline.” It was given to the historical society by the family of Oen Ed No...

DATE: Aug 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Looking back

Lizard Head has changed landscape of Southwest Colorado

The Mancos Times-Tribune Dec. 29, 1911 The skyline of the mountains to the southwest of Telluride was changed last night when, through some mighty upheaval of nature, t...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Looking back

The journey from Utah to the Mancos in 1882

By MARY L. LAMB Part 1 We first came from Utah to the Mancos in 1882. There was quite a large party of us consisting of my mother, Mrs. Sarah C. Lee, known to all as “Grandma Lee,...

DATE: Nov 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Looking back

Conflict at Totten Lake in 1880s

By Mrs. Matt Hammond Editor’s note: Mrs. Hammond came to Dolores River with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Simon in July 1881. Mrs. Hammond’s, daughter, Rose Roelker, was inte...

DATE: Oct 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Looking back

The times were lively, and life was grand in 1909

Editor’s note: S. H. Phlegar, Dolores, wrote this story in 1934 about events in Montezuma Valley in 1909. Twenty-five years ago at Lebanon in the Montezuma Valley – well, those were the ...

DATE: Aug 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Looking back

The Old West: Cowboys at Beaver Creek and Indians at Meadows Trading Post

Part 2: Continued from The Cortez Journal, Jan. 3, 2014 In her interview, Allie Meadows Baer talked about an interesting visitor to her father Billy Meadows’ trading post in the s...

DATE: Feb 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Looking back