People

: William Aubery; Early resident of Crested Butte, Colorado. Died in the Jokerville Mine Explosion on January 24, 1884.

: William B. "Bill" Sayre; Referred to incorrectly as Bill Sare in the photo caption of the article "John Fetcher: an inspiration for our time.

: William Bannister; He was born in Ohio and was a Mesa County, Colorado pioneer. He owned Bannister’s furniture store, which was also the funeral parlor in Grand Junction, Colorado. He later opened the first cemetery in Grand Junction, on Orchard Mesa. It was known at first as Bannister Cemetery, and then as Orchard Mesa Cemetery.

: William Benson "Ben" Male; Note: Referred to, in error, as Vinson Male in the oral interview for article, "Long Gone, But Not Forgotten...The Royal Hotel"

: William Bosley Foy; His family was one of the first families to settle in the Gateway area. In January of 1901, they migrated to Colorado on wagon and horseback by way of the Dolores River from Moab, Utah. Prior to this, he had engaged in farming and stock raising and established a freight train between Minersville, Utah and St. George, Utah. They raised all their own food and made sugarcane, molasses, and syrup. He passed in Grand Junction, Colorado. Grandfather of Nellie (Foy) Massey.

: William Bowie "Bill" May; The owner of Bar S Bar Ranch in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Bill's parents, Fred and Anna May, were both from Iowa. His father taught school in Iowa before homesteading in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, sometime between 1900 and 1910. He married Anna in 1917 and together had 5 children. Bill was their first son born in 1928. He grew up in Steamboat Springs on the ranch and later inherited it. He served as a corporal in the US Army during the Korean War. In addition to ranching, he had forty years of experience as a hunting guide and outfitter. He was a guitarist who sang songs that he made up, and who played folk music that had been passed onto him by his father and family. Bill apparently had a good knowledge of local history, including that of local schools. In the Country School Legacy on the Western Slope of Colorado project directed by Dr. Andrew Gulliford, Bill defended the integrity of country schools, stating, “I knew many of the people who received their education under such conditions and (as far as a ‘well-rounded’ education is concerned) most of them were among the best educated people I’ve ever known.” He blamed the end of local control over schools for the dilution of rural community. He died at the age of seventy-eight.

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