People

: Avard Fairbanks; A renowned sculptor and native Utahan known in part for his art commissioned by the Church of Latter Day Saints. Much of his collection is housed at the Fairbanks Museum of History and Art in Fairbanks, Utah. *Public domain photo by Harold Goff of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (circa 1914)

: Avery Dobie; 2008 Cattlemen's Days Attendant, member of Gunnison High School Rodeo Team, Member of 4-H (from 2008 Cattlemen's Days Brochure) 2005 Cattlemen's Days Junior Miss, Member of 4-H, Member of Bad Girls Barrel Racing Club (From 2005 Cattlemen's Days Brochure)

: Avery Forsythe; Contributor to "Out of the Blue and Into the Sun," (source: Out of the Blue and Into the Sun: A Gunnison Valley Journal)

: Avery J Pulley; Contributor to "In Our Own Write," (source: In Our Own Write: A Gunnison Valley Journal)

: Avery Newton Burford; He was born to Roland "Tank" Burford and Caroline (Newton) Burford in Fresno, California. His father was an attorney and his mother was a homemaker. US Census records indicate that he had come to Mesa County, Colorado by at least 1900. In doing so he followed his older brother, Robert "Fred" Burford, who arrived in the 1880's and cattle ranched on Pinon Mesa before moving to Whitewater. Avery Burford is shown living in Whitewater and working on the railroad by the 1900 census. Colorado marriage records show that he married Ruby Dodgion on December 11, 1904. By 1910, he was living with his in-laws, the Dodgions, and working as a stockman in Whitewater. He continued to live in Whitewater and to work as a stockman. He seemed to have also maintained family ranch lands on Pinon Mesa. According to Don Rogers, Burford provided the tracking expertise that led to Rogers when he became lost in the wilderness as a six-year-old boy in 1918.

: Avis (Turner) Corcoran; She was born in Colorado and graduated from Fruita High School. Her husband was a rancher, and she spent the summers on the ranch above De Beque and the rest of the year with her children in Grand Junction, Colorado.

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