Grand Junction Centennial Celebration Radio History Theater: Charlie Glass: A Cowboy

Description

To mark the centennial celebration of the town of Grand Junction, Colorado in 1981, the Mesa County Oral History Project wrote and recorded several radio plays about local history. Beginning on September 26, 1981, local radio stations KSTR, KREX-AM, KREX-FM, and KMSA broadcast the plays. The plays’ authors used interviews recorded by the Mesa County Oral History Project as inspiration. In this recording the listener will hear the play Charlie Glass: A Cowboy, about the life of the locally prominent, African-American cowboy of that name. *Please note that this interview contains language that listeners or readers may consider offensive. Mesa County Libraries does not condone such language, but has included the recording in its entirety in the interest of preserving history. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado. It was produced with the support of the Colorado Humanities Program, Boulder, Colorado, a state-based program of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional funding was provided by the Grand Junction Lion’s Club and by Mrs. Josephine Biggs.