People

: Charles Bear; A homesteader on California Mesa in Delta County who was shot and killed by Mark Powers in an altercation over water that Bear was diverting from Powers' ditch in 1890.

: Charles C. Kiefer; He was born to John Kiefer and Anna Maria (Schmitt) Kiefer in Brookville, Indiana. His father was a farmer and day laborer. His mother was a homemaker. According to his daughter Agnes Kiefer, he moved to Western Colorado in 1889, when he was about 19 years old. His uncles Ben, Frank, and Joseph had moved there six years before. He worked as a prospector around Ouray, Silverton, and Lake City. He also worked for the Midland Railroad. He returned to Indiana in 1898. The 1900 US Census shows him living with his parents and siblings in Indiana and working in a grocery store. He moved to Mack, Colorado in 1902, where he filed for a homestead exemption that same year. He ran a store for the Fruita Mercantile in Mack. He ran a commissary for the Uintah Railway until 1905. In 1905, he and his brother purchased ponies from the Ute tribe on the Uintah Reservation and sold them to the Army. He came to know Chipeta, McCook (from whom he purchased the horses), and Atchee in this way. He married Mary Kopf in January of 1906. He was primarily a farmer after his marriage and ran a dairy farm. Though the family lost its house on the hill in the 1930’s during a bad year, they had land where they built a log cabin in the New Liberty area, which Charles added to each year to make a comfortable home. He retired from farming in 1945. He died in Grand Junction, Colorado at the age of eighty-two.

: Charles Clyde "Charlie" Hyer; He was born in West Virginia to John D. and Pruda Hyer, where his parents farmed and he was himself a farm laborer. US Census records show him living in the Pomona area of Mesa County, Colorado by at least 1910, when he was thirty years old. He was an orchard owner in the Second Fruitridge area of Pomona. In addition to growing fruit, he also processed apples into vinegar and cider. He would process apples from other fruit grower’s as well, in exchange for a portion of their product. He was a champion horseshoe pitcher. His wife was Mabel S. Hyer.

: Charles Delos "Buck" Waggoner; Telluride banker and embezzler. Considered by some the "Robin Hood" of Telluride during his time, Waggoner attempted a scheme to defraud New York bankers and swindle a large amount of money to the Bank of Telluride.

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