People

: William R. Hill; He grew up in Colorado. After graduating from high school in 1965, he worked in Safeway stores and attended Mesa College in Grand Junction, Colorado before deciding to join the US Air Force in 1967. He was placed in extensive basic training and lost forty-five pounds in five weeks. At Kessler Air Force Base in California, he trained to be an Airborne Radio Repairman. He was then assigned to Castle Air Force Base in California, where he worked with the avionics squadron for Strategic Air Command, focussing on long-range communications over water. He then went to cryptographic training in San Antonio at Lackland Air Force Base, where he received a top secret clearence prior to being stationed in Okinawa in December 1968. After two months, he restationed to Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand. He repaired radios by day, and flew frag and classified missions in a C-130 Hercules by night with Detachment 2 of the 834th Air Wing.

: William R. Warren; A Fruita resident who partnered with Dr. W.A.E. De Beque to run the Shale Oil Syndicate.

: William Radcliffe; An English aristocrat who bought land on the Grand Mesa near Cedaredge, Colorado in the years before World War I. He secured fishing rights to the Alexander Lakes and its tributaries after their owner William Alexander disappeared, and built an extravagant hotel. He disallowed fishing by locals, which incensed the people of Cedaredge. After one of Radcliffe's guards killed a local rancher who was fishing at the lake in 1911, a mob burned down his hotel, destroyed his fisheries, killed his fish, and would probably have killed Radcliffe too had he not been out of town. He was never able to return to the Grand Mesa or Delta County and went back home to England. Later, he sued the United States Government for his losses and was compensated.

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