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- Andrew E. Riddle
- A Colorado rancher and sheepherder who was in the Colorado National Guard in the Fall of 1913 during a miner’s strike. His grandparents were pioneers who came to Colorado by wagon train, and his mother’s family were French Canadians. They were early settlers in Larimer County, Colorado, arriving in the 1860’s. In fact, his aunt was the first white child born in Larimer County. Growing up, Riddle worked for his father’s ranching operation in Colorado and Wyoming cattle country. He graduated from high school in Fort Collins. He signed up for the National Guard, and was called into face miners who were striking over working conditions in Southeastern Colorado. His unit was stationed near Walsenburg in 1913, protecting 800 scabs who had come into work in place of the striking miners. His unit was then called to Ludlow directly after the Ludlow Massacre in 1914, where they aided the National Guard unit that had been stationed there. Riddle sympathized with the striking miners and the horrible working conditions that they faced, and said that he felt ashamed of being involved in the Ludlow Massacre, however tangentially. During the Great Depression, Riddle and his family had to sell off their cattle. He moved to Paradox Valley, Colorado in 1923, following his father (who had moved there in 1920 to escape the blizzards in Northeastern Colorado). He began going to the Navajo Nation to purchase lambs, then herding the flocks through eastern Utah and into Western Colorado. Also, he and his brother owned the Yellow Bird Mine, which is a uranium mine on La Sal Creek. Along with the Roger Mine on Rock Creek, it was one of the earliest uranium mines in the Western Colorado area.
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- Andrew Gulliford
- He grew up in Lamar, Colorado and attended Lamar High School. According to his website, he began writing a column for the Lamar Daily News at the age of fourteen. During the 1970’s and 80’s, he directed a project called The Country School Legacy Project (sponsored by the Mountain Plains Library Association and funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities). This project documented rural school houses in Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. According to the April 1981 edition of the Colorado Heritage News, the purpose of the project was to “document and share information about country schools and their importance as educational and community institutions.” He received his PhD from Bowling Green State University in 1986, and is now a professor of history and environmental studies at Ft. Lewis College in Durango. He is also a photographer and author, and has written several books, including: America’s Country Schools, Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale, and The Woolly West: Colorado’s Hidden History of Sheepscapes.