Item Type: AudioDescription: Interview with Adolph Brachtenbach of Stratton, Colorado. Mr. Brachtenbach talks about his father's and mother's families homesteading in Dakota, then Nebraska, before moving to the eastern plain...
Time Coverage: 1914-1976
Item Type: AudioDescription: Interview with Don Tarver, of Hugo, Colorado. Tarver was born in 1950 in Amarillo, Texas but moved to Colorado at an early age. He attended high school in Limon, Colorado. He talks about his work...
Time Coverage: 1950-1976
Item Type: AudioDescription: Oral history interview with Winona Silfer Buell, of Colorado Springs. Mrs. Buell was born in Longmont, Colorado received her teaching degree from the University of Northern Colorado in 1929, and ...
Time Coverage: ca. 1858-1976
Item Type: AudioDescription: Interview with Roy Irvin Pring of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Mr. Pring is a third generation rancher in the Colorado Springs area. His grandfather, John W. Pring, originally from England, homest...
Time Coverage: 1920-1976
Item Type: AudioDescription: Very brief interview with rancher Kirk Hanna, made during a round-up at the Hanna Ranch near Fountain, Colorado. Hanna talks about branding and castrating cattle.
Time Coverage: 1976
Item Type: AudioDescription: Interview with John Nick Sakala and his wife, Kathryn Sakala, of Ramah, Colorado. Mrs. Sakala only interjects a few comments during the interview. Mr. Sakala talks about his and other Slovak fami...
Time Coverage: ca. 1885-1976
Item Type: AudioDescription: Part two of an oral history interview with Helen Eurich of Calhan, Colorado. Mrs. Eurich discusses customs and traditions of the Czech American, or Slovak, community near Calhan. She talks about ...
Time Coverage: ca. 1920-1976
Item Type: AudioDescription: Part one of an oral history interview with Helen Eurich, of Calhan, Colorado. Mrs. Eurich talks about her parents coming from Czechoslovakia to the United States, first to Pennsylvania, then Pueb...
Time Coverage: ca. 1880-1976
Item Type: AudioDescription: Melissa Tamlin Snell was born February 25, 1898, near Cherokee, Oklahoma, to William and Minerva (McCorkle) Tamlin. During the interview, Tamlin discusses the family moving to Colorado around 189...
Time Coverage: 1890-1920
Item Type: AudioDescription: Interview with Ken Esarey of Simla, Colorado. Mr. Esarey begins by discussing the Colorado Cowboy Camp Meeting, held annually at the Smith Ranch near Simla, Colorado since 1956. Mr Esarey states ...
Time Coverage: ca. 1940-1976
Item Type: AudioDescription: Oral history interview with Harry Collier of Limon, Colorado. Mr. Collier came to Colorado in 1917, at 15 years of age. He and his father started a cattle ranch on open range near Holly, Colorado...
Time Coverage: ca. 1917-1940
Item Type: AudioDescription: Oral history interview with Lyle Conley of Elbert, Colorado. Conley talks about coming to Colorado Springs on the train in 1930 to look for work. He found work on a ranch east of Castle Rock, Col...
Time Coverage: 1930-1976
Item Type: AudioDescription: Oral history interview with George Kadlec Jr. of Ellicott, Colorado. Kadlec and his wife, Ginette, talk about trading city life for life on a farm near Ellicott. The Kadlecs describe their farmin...
Time Coverage: 1970s
Item Type: AudioDescription: Oral history interview with William Harold Lee, of Limon, Colorado. Mr. Lee was a grandson of William S. Pershing, one of the founders of Limon. He was born in 1904 near Hugo, Colorado, but in 19...
Time Coverage: 1904-1976
Item Type: AudioDescription: Oral history interview with Don Christianson, of Weldona, Colorado. Mr.Christianson talks extensively about the Narrows Dam project in the Weldon Valley of Weld County and its potential impact up...
Time Coverage: 1947-1976
Item Type: AudioDescription: Oral history interview with Jody Littler, of Sterling, Colorado. Miss Littler talks about what it is like to be a teenager in Sterling during the 1970s.
Time Coverage: 1970s
Item Type: AudioDescription: Oral history interview with Jean Smith, of Brush, Morgan County, Colorado. Mrs. Smith was a bookkeeper and a branding crew leader for Weisbart Cattle Company then Weisbart Hog Farm in Brush. At t...
Item Type: AudioDescription: The recording begins with a worship service recorded at the 21st Annual Colorado Cowboy Camp Meeting on the Hank Smith ranch near Kiowa, Elbert County, Colorado. This 22-minute recording is follo...
Time Coverage: 1976-07-02
Item Type: AudioDescription: Oral history interview with Robert Allen Burghart, Jr., of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Mr. Burghart was a rancher, ranch real estate broker, member and president of the PIkes Peak Cattlemen's Ass...
Time Coverage: ca. 1930-1976
Item Type: AudioDescription: Oral history interview with John Ora Carpenter, of Limon, Colorado. Mr. Carpenter gives a detailed account of his life as a laborer and homesteader in eastern Colorado. Mr. Carpenter came to Colo...
Time Coverage: ca. 1887-1976
Item Type: AudioDescription: Oral history interview with Dale Cooley, of Limon, Colorado. Mr. Cooley was editor of the Limon Leader from 1937 to 1973. He tells of attending Chautauqua performances, the only entertainment opp...
Time Coverage: ca. 1930-1976
Item Type: AudioDescription: Oral history interview with Jess C. Christenson, of Limon, Colorado. Mr. Christenson relates a brief history of his family, emigrants from Norway who worked on the railroad in eastern Colorado. H...
Item Type: AudioDescription: Oral history interview with David Wright of Elizabeth, Colorado. Mr. Wright was born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1943. He discusses making the transition from being a teacher in the California publi...
Time Coverage: 1970s
Item Type: AudioDescription: Part one of oral history interview with Jewett C. Buell, Jr., of Ordway, Colorado. Mr. Buell was born in 1893. He begins his interview by talking about his early life in Sterling and Rock Falls,...
Time Coverage: ca. 1860-1976
Item Type: AudioDescription: Part two of oral history interview with Jewett C. Buell, Jr., of Ordway, Colorado. Mr. Buell discusses the development of cattle feed lots on the eastern Colorado plains. He discusses water issu...
Time Coverage: ca. 1900-1976
Item Type: AudioDescription: Part two of oral history interview with Grace Maud Ford (nee Nickell) of Denver, Colorado. Mrs. Ford continues her memories by discussing traditional or home remedies of the period. Mrs. Ford rel...
Time Coverage: ca. 1900-1940
Item Type: AudioDescription: Part one of oral history interview with Grace Maud Ford (nee Nickell) of Denver, Colorado. Mrs. Ford discusses her family history, relating stories of the Nickell family's travels to find homeste...
Time Coverage: ca. 1900-1940
Item Type: AudioDescription: Part one of oral history interview with Andy and Anna Lemesany of Calhan, El Paso County, Colorado. The Lemesanys discuss their family histories, immigration to the United States from Czechoslova...
Time Coverage: ca. 1880-1976
Item Type: AudioDescription: Part two of oral history interview with Andy and Anna Lemesany, of Calhan, Colorado. The Lemesanys conclude the discussion of their family histories, immigration from Czechoslovakia, homesteading...
Time Coverage: ca. 1880-1976