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- Alfred "Alferd" Packer
- An American prospector who traveled with five other companions through the mountains of Colorado during the winter of 1874. He was the only survivor of the expedition and confessed to resorting to cannibalism in order to survive. Though he claimed the other members resorted to cannibalism too, his story was questioned and he was sentenced to 40 years in prison for manslaughter.
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- Alfred A. (Fred) Braun
- The Alfred A. Braun Memorial Hut System—Colorado’s first ski oriented hut system—was an idea originally envisioned by Stuart and Isabel Mace, of Ashcroft, in the early 1950s. Today, six high mountain cabins provide skiers with nearly endless skiing and mountaineering opportunities in the spectacular Elk Mountain Range. The huts can be skied hut-to-hut or out and back from trailheads in the Aspen area. The Tagert and Green Wilson Huts can also be used in conjunction with the Friends' Hut to ski between the towns of Aspen and Crested Butte. The hut system is named after Fred Braun who managed it for over 20 years. Braun is also known as the founder of Mountain Rescue Aspen. —Excerpted from huts.org (Aspen Hall of Fame website)
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- Alfred Alvine "Al" Look
- He was born in Nebraska, and raised in Lincoln and in Stockton, Kansas. His father was Albert Look and his mother Marie Look. Both parents were the children of German immigrants. They ran a grocery store, a dry goods store, and then a creamery. While in high school, he was active in theater productions, sang bass in a local barbershop quartet, and sang in the Methodist choir. He attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, where he studied journalism, interned with the Nebraska State Journal, and helped publish his own magazine called Ah Go On, for which he also drew comics. Al joined the US Navy Reserves in June of 1914, where he achieved an officer’s rank. The 1920 US Census shows him living in Nebraska with his parents and working for the local newspaper as a cartoonist. Sometime soon after, he homesteaded in the Dove Creek, Colorado area and also worked for a Durango newspaper, probably in advertising, before moving to Grand Junction to become the advertising manager for the Grand Junction Daily News. When the Daily News was purchased by the Daily Sentinel, his job was transferred there. Beginning in 1924 or 1925, he served as the advertising manager and as a columnist for the Daily Sentinel newspaper. His popular column was called On Guard. His job as the advertising executive of the Sentinel included a role as a publicity point person. He organized Easter egg hunts in Lincoln Park, a local basketball tournament, and fundraisers for the Soup Eaters. He retired in 1960. He was a friend of Sentinel owner and publisher Walter Walker. He was a self-taught geologist, paleontologist, archaeologist and historian who wrote extensively about Mesa County and Western Colorado history. He published several books, including In My Backyard, Harold Bryant: Colorado’s Maverick with a Paint Brush, and John Otto. In his free time, he explored the Grand Valley and its surroundings, participating in archaeological digs and surveys in Western Colorado and Eastern Utah. He was interviewed multiple times on a radio show called The Local scene (radio network unknown). He founded the Soup Eaters, a Depression era organization that provided meals for people in need, and was involved in other community groups, including the Grand Junction Lions Club, of which he was an original member. He conducted many interviews for the Mesa County Oral History Project, and was a colorful and avid local historian. He married Margaret L. Langen in Cortez in 1920. They had three children. *Some information taken from 125 People 125 Years: Grand Junction's Story by Laurena Mayne Davis.
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- Alfred Flagg
- Alfred Flagg was born in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1898, grew up in Delta, Colorado, and returned to Mesa County, Colorado in 1921. He worked as a barber, a trade his father taught him. He went to beautician school in Chicago in 1923 and came back to Grand Junction to work as a hair stylist. He leased a beauty shop from William J. Moyer in the Fair Store Building in Grand Junction. He owned the first permanent hair wave machine in the city.