People

: Robert Cheever; He served as the mayor in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He later served as city manager of Grand Junction, Colorado from 1956-1959. He facilitated the construction of the police building on Ute Avenue. He was terminated from the post by the council.

: Robert Clement "Bob" Klenda; A saddlemaker in Plateau City, Colorado. He was born in Kansas to Clement and Emma Klenda. His parents were farmers. The 1920 US Census shows Bob living at home with his parents and working as a “Farm Boy” at the age of thirteen. He learned leather crafting in the US Army. He learned saddlemaking in a shop in Yakima, Washington, where he acquired the basics and his teacher stressed quality. He moved to Utah in 1957, where he ranched and learned about saddles. He began working in the Newton Brothers saddle shop in Vernal, Utah in 1961. He appears to have moved to Fruita, Colorado in 1962, where he set up shop on his ranch. He married Anna Marie Serve in Fruita on September 8, 1962 and his address on the marriage certificate is shown as Fruita. He continued to work as both a cowboy and as a saddlemaker. He relocated to Arizona for a time, where he absorbed saddlemaking lessons from that region. He returned to Western Colorado in 1977. He owned a saddlery business in Plateau City in the 1980’s, where he catered primarily to cowboys who worked in Plateau Valley and on the Western Slope. He later moved to New Castle and then to Meeker. *Some information for this biography comes from the article “Award Winning Bob Klenda” in Shoptalk! magazine (May 24, 2018). https://shoptalk-magazine.com/2018/05/24/award-winning-bob-klenda/

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