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
The Montezuma County Historical Society
Position: Staff reporter
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
Looking Back Which came first: the chicken or the chicken ordinance?
From the Cortez Sentinel, March 21, 1929
CHICKEN OWNERS
Notice is hereby given that henceforth chickens must be kept on the premises of the owner. Allowing chickens to ...
DATE: Sep 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Looking back
Mesa Verde’s early park visitors
PAST HISTORY OF
EVENTS AT MESA
VERDE NATIONAL PARK
Making Camp for the Night, July 1909.
Prof. Ed Levy was a teacher in Cortez in 1909/10. This...
DATE: Jun 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Looking back
