Grand Junction

by Kania, Alan J.

• ISBN13: 9780738580685
• ISBN10: 0738580686
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-28
• Publisher: Arcadia Pub

Summary

The Ute Indians were hardly out of western Colorado when their land was opened to Anglo settlers. It was on September 26, 1881, when George A. Crawford, William McGinley, R. D. Mobley, M. R. Warner, and others went to the junction of the Gunnison and Grand (later renamed the Colorado) Rivers to claim 640 acres. In the semiarid confluence of the two rivers, a city developed, fruit orchards were planted, and a college grew out of the seeds of a single-room school with a dirt floor. Several newspapers opened, providing news and information to a business community that included coal mining, railroads, dry goods, and even a toffee factory whose products have graced the tables of royalty. How Grand Junction was able to develop into a progressive community of entrepreneurs, educators, and community-minded citizens is a story best told in a small sampling of pictures. None of the founders are still here, but their legacy, stories, and pictures have survived to speak for them.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 6
Acknowledgments	p. 8
Cowboys and Indians	p. 9
Grand Junction Town Company	p. 29
Main Street, Grand Junction	p. 43
Book Cliff Mine and Railroad	p. 67
Black and White and Read All Over	p. 73
Footlights and Music	p. 85
Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic	p. 99
Growth of a College Town	p. 109
About the Grand Junction Archives	p. 127
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