Jim Rogers speaks about moving from South Park, Colorado to the town of Mesa in 1903, when he was two years old, so that his family would have access to better ranch land for their cattle. He recalls playing store using rocks for money, playing baseball with a homemade bat and ball, and riding horses. He remembers the range on the Grand Mesa as open and shared prior to government regulation of grazing. He speaks about cattle drives on the Sunnyside Road to the stockyards in De Beque, where the cattle were shipped by rail to slaughterhouses. He relates stories about strife between sheep rancher and cattle ranchers. He describes the home his parents built in 1904 and hunting experiences he had over the years. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
