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: Dagny "Wandering Rose" McKinley; Dagny has served as the Director of Possibilities and Opportunities at Perry-Mansfield, Executive Director of Undiscovered Earth and co-publisher of Art with Altitude Magazine. She has also worked at Steamboat Creates (Development Director) and the Colorado New Play Festival (Executive Director). She is the author of Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School & Camp: a history of art in nature, The Springs of Steamboat: healing waters, sparkling soda and mysterious caves, and The Adventures of a Girl & Her Dog: in the mountains. Photography credits include Kodak, Frontier Magazine, The Associated Press, Steamboat Magazine, The Steamboat Pilot & Today, Gerber Berend Design Build, True North Furs. She has exhibited work at the Depot Art Center. In her younger years she spent three seasons as a volunteer backcountry ranger in Yosemite National Park (and would do so again if her knees would let her). She also tried to break the Guinness world record for most hugs in 24 hours at the X games in Aspen. She has served on the boards of Opera Steamboat and the Steamboat Symphony Orchestra as well as the Mineral Springs Protection Committee through the City of Steamboat Springs and the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts advocacy committee. Dagny believes that anything can happen when you believe the impossible is possible. Biography provided by Dagny McKinley.

: Daisy De Genira (Hosey) Shults; Daisy G. (Hosey) Shults was born in Springfield, Missouri to James Newell Hosey and De Genira Hosey. Her father was a Union Civil War veteran who fought for the Pennsylvania 78 Infantry. He was also a farmer. Her mother was a homemaker. She attended a teacher's college in Springfield, where she met her future husband James Shults. She moved to Mesa County, Colorado in 1902 and taught at the Pear Park School. She married James on February 25, 1904. They moved to Fruita and taught in a school house two miles west of town before moving north of Loma, where they had their twin boys Howard and Harold in 1905. The family moved to Grand Junction for a brief time in 1908 before moving to Collbran. They stayed there until 1919, when they returned to Grand Junction so that their twin boys Harold and Howard could attend Grand Junction High School. They lived on a farm on F 1/2 Road. In 1926, she and her husband moved back to Loma, where they farmed on what had been the Golden Hills Ranch. She died at the age of 48 and is buried in Fruita's Elmwood Cemetery.

: Daisy Draper Breese Lucas; The superintendent of schools for Grand Junction School District 1 in the early 1900's.

: Daisy J. (Hurlburt) Green; She was born on a sheep ranch in Parachute, Colorado and lived in a log house near Parachute Creek. She graduated from Grand Valley High School in 1917.

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