Sarah Jane Livesay, who was born during the Civil War, talks about growing up in frontier towns in Kansas, about her father’s hickory nut orchards, and encounters with American Indians. She also describes her train journey to Delta, Colorado in 1897, the stage coach ride to Hotchkiss, and their life as pioneers in the North Fork area of Delta County. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado and the Mesa County Historical Society. The original recording appears to have been made on a vinyl record in 1946, and transferred to audiocassette in 1980.
