Walter Bradbury talks about haying operations run by his family in the Kannah Creek / Whitewater area in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries. He details equipment used in haying, the horse stables in Grand Junction to which the family sold hay, the kind of clothing worn by the hay team, and the pay and duties of the hay crew. He describes the beginning of the family’s cattle ranching business, how cream was sold to the Challenge Creamery and Surface Creek Creamery, beef butchering and inspection, cattle drives and roundups. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
*Photograph from 1936 Grand Junction High School yearbook
