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Walter Flasche talks about his birth in Nebraska and moving to De Beque, Colorado with his parents via covered wagon around 1908. He remembers life in the Roan Creek area, severe drought and heavy snows. He recalls battles between cattle ranchers and sheep ranchers in the area. He speaks about his work as a logger and his work in the nascent oil shale industry. He describes how hard the life of a rancher and oil shale worker was, and how his wife...
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Justina Nelson, Alex Baeur, and Amalia Newman speak about their heritage as the descendants of Germans from Russia during a meeting of the Mesa County Historical Society. They talk about the history of their families in the United States and in Mesa County, Colorado. The meeting is entertained by a concert of Polka music. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries...