People

: Petra Hartmann; Petra Hartmann was born 10 April 1971 in Chur, Switzerland to Peter and Rosa Hartmann – Hartmann. Hartmann spent her youth in Zizers, Switzerland and graduated from the Swiss Institute for Management and Hospitality in Zizers with a B.A. in Food Science. Hartmann enjoys the outdoors and a variety of mountain sports including trail running, cycling, skiing and snowboarding. After arriving in Vail in 1999, Hartmann found employment as a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier and participated in numerous races with considerable success. In August of 2024, Petra Hartmann won her age group (50 – 59 years) during the Leadville Trail 100: Race Across the Sky. Most of this ultra-marathon course is above 10,000 feet in elevation. It begins and ends in the town of Leadville, Lake County, Colorado at an elevation of 10, 152 feet and features a high point of 12,600 feet (Hope Pass). Hartmann completed the 100-mile running feat in 27 hours 32 minutes and 40 seconds.

: Phidelah "P.A." Rice; He was born in Kentucky to David Rice (a teacher) and Selina Huntington (Bender) Rice, and grew up there and in Missouri. The 1870 US Census shows him living in Missouri and making his living as a preacher at the age of 24. By 1880, he had married Annie M. (Bernard) Rice, and the family was living in Fremont County, Colorado. Shortly after, he became an early Grand Junction, Colorado pioneer. He and his brother W.A. Rice established Mesa County’s first sawmill by Enoch Lake on Pinon Mesa in 1883. It supplied the builders of Grand Junction and others in the county with timber for construction. They also ran a lumberyard near 249 S. 4th Street in Grand Junction. He was a prominent citizen, and was also the director of the local YMCA. He and Annie lived on the corner of First Street and Rood Avenue. They had two sons, Phidelah “P.W.” and Bernard, and a daughter named Mary. Mary cared for P.A. and Annie in their later years, until their deaths. He is buried in the Orchard Mesa Cemetery.

: Phidelah Dawes "P.W." Rice; He was born in Canon City, Colorado and raised in Grand Junction and Glade Park, Colorado. He was the son of prominent citizen and pioneer Phidelah "P.A." Rice, who owned the county's first lumber mill and a lumberyard in town. P.W. worked in the lumberyard as a young man. He also attended the Leland Power’s School of Elocution and would often practice dramatic readings of Hamlet and other works in the woods by their home in Glade Park, Colorado, and in Grand Junction. He went to Colorado College, where he was a member of the Glee and Mandolin Club, a group called the Pearsons, and where he took part in oratorical contests. By 1920, US Census records show him living in Brookline, Massachusetts, where his occupation was listed as "public reader." The 1930 US Census shows him as owner and teacher at the School of Dramatic Art. He married Elizabeth Pooler. They had a daughter named Carolee.

: Phil Eilebrecht; Born 1918, one of the original members of the Cattlemen's Days Association. Worked as a State Brand Inspector and a rancher on Ohio Creek. Married wife Patricia in 1946, with whom he has 2 daughters (one of which was Cattlemen's Days Queen in 1965) and 3 grandchildren. (source: Newspaper Clipping "The Three Granddaddies of Cattlemen's Days") Cattlemen's Days Parade Marshall 2000, President 1980 & 1981