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Position: Looking Back
Position: Montezuma County Historical Society
Position: Montezuma County Historical Society
Position: As told to Eldon Zwicker
Position: February 1985
Editor’s Note: This is the second of three parts of Erastus Thompson’s recollections of life in Montezuma County in the late 1800s. The entire article is in the Montezuma County Historical Society...
DATE: Feb. 27, 2018 | COLUMN: Looking back
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 Iowa in March 1858, and...
DATE: Jan. 30, 2018 | COLUMN: Looking back
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 Dad got his wagon...
DATE: Jan. 2, 2018 | COLUMN: Looking back
Some readers may remember when a fragrant, juicy orange in their Christmas stocking was a real treat, especially in the Montezuma Valley, where apples were plentiful and oranges were not. Philip...
DATE: Dec. 23, 2017 | COLUMN: Looking back
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 was...
DATE: Dec. 8, 2017 | COLUMN: Looking back
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 Timberline,”...
DATE: Nov. 2, 2017 | COLUMN: Looking back
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 Sage Plain to...
DATE: Oct. 3, 2017 | COLUMN: Looking back
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 Noland. Part...
DATE: Aug. 30, 2017 | COLUMN: Looking back
Editor’s note: This story was printed in Vol. 3 of the Montezuma County Historical Society’s “Great Sage to Timberline,” and was given to the historical society by his family. The late D.B. McGue,...
DATE: Aug. 1, 2017 | COLUMN: Looking back
Editor’s note: This column is adapted from July 27, 1900, edition of The Montezuma Journal. By One of the Girls Last Friday morning, our party of fourteen mounted their horses en route for the...
DATE: July 5, 2017 | COLUMN: Looking back
By June HeadMontezuma County Historical SocietyFrank Clyde Thompson came to Montezuma Valley with his parents in 1887, at which time his father, A.L. Thompson, drove into town with three wagon...
DATE: May 30, 2017 | COLUMN: Looking back
By June HeadMontezuma County Historical SocietyEditor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part series that looks back at the devastating floods of fall 1911. Rain in Southwest Colorado is...
DATE: May 5, 2017 | COLUMN: Looking back
