Three Wire Winter Oral History and Magazine Collections

: Additional Three Wire Winter Interviews; Most of the interviews associated with the Three Wire Winter collection have been paired with the corresponding article that appeared in the magazine. The interviews listed below never made it to publication, yet they offer a valuable snapshot of Routt County, Colorado history.

: Issue #01, Winter 1976 - Three Wire Winter Collection; The 1st issue collection of Three Wire Winter includes oral histories from Bill Higbee, Ralph "Snowball" Herberlee, Beulah Combs, and Grace Luekens. The magazine features Wayne Light, Bill Higbee, Ralph "Snowball" Marion Herberlee, Elsie Franz, Thelma West, Beulah Combs, and Grace Leukens, as well as remedies, recipes, and a feature article on the Remington Strawberry. Table of Contents "Scratch" Wayne Light: Weather Observing Bill Higbee: Scrimshaw: Art on Ivory Mountain Medicine Men Ralph "Snowball" Marion Herberlee: Snowball Old Recipes are Tasty Too! Elsie Franz: If I Could Talk to the Animals Thelma West: "When I get to hell I'll have more seniority over everybody..." Beulah Combs: Tatting: An Endangered Art How to Tat Poems The Remington Berry: Steamboat's First Boom Subscribe & Poem by Bethany Craighead

: Issue #02, Spring 1976 - Three Wire Winter Collection; The 2nd issue collection of Three Wire Winter includes oral histories from Ellen Millsap, Minnie Hertzog, Doc Marshall, and Josephine Whitmer. The magazine features Ellen Millsap, Minnie Hertzog, Lila Allen, Lucy Marshall, Doc Marshall, Curtis Zabel, Lewis Phillips, Dorothy Wither, Josephine Whitmer, and a feature article on Mt. Harris. Table of Contents Would you believe... Ellen Millsap: Let's Go to Colorado Mighty-Mini-Minnie Lila from Egeria Park Lucy Marshall: "You will have to come by the ranch some time and we'll fish and talk and talk." Doc Marshall: Wild Horse Catcher & Bronc Buster Curtis Zabel: Bronzing: Western Art Mt. Harris: From Routt County Gold to Dust One Sunday Afternoon Yampa Kraut King: Lewis Phillips Dorothy Wither: A Pioneer Childhood Josephine Whitmer: "It was a very happy time." Subscribe & "Without You" by Bob Swinehart

: Issue #03, Fall 1976 - Three Wire Winter Collection; The 3rd issue collection of Three Wire Winter includes oral histories from Anton Kline, Harold Brenner, Dave Hoefer and Farrington Carpenter, The magazine features Daisy Anderson, Anton Kline, Harold Brenner, Dave Hoefer, Farrington Carpenter, a pictorial essay of Routt County rivers, and a feature article on the Cameo Restaurant. Table of Contents Daisy of Strawberry Park Anton Kline: "I've been a straight cowboy all my life." Mr. Harold Brenner: "We're about the only sheep ranchers left in the valley." Routt Waters The Cameo: 72 Years Serving Steamboat Springs Dave Hoefer: "I make wine out of the naturals" Ferry Carpenter: "I knew I was going to be a cattleman. That was everything!" Subscribe & "The Steamboat Aspencade" by Bob Swinehart

: Issue #04, Winter 1977 - Three Wire Winter Collection; The 4th issue collection of Three Wire Winter includes oral histories from Dean Bowker, Ralph Belton, Josephine Yoast, Joe Blandford, The magazine features Ralph Belton, Ellen Winchell, Josephine Yoast, Marie Stender, Joe Blandford, Fred Foster, Clay Monson, and feature articles on the Ski Band, KFMU, and Routt County old-time routes. Table of Contents Ski Band Ralph Belton: "Sometimes you'd do anything for a little money." KFMU: Music from the Wind "A person paints the way she feels," says Ellen Winchell Josephine Yoast: "I've lived here most of my life and I'm sure I'm gonna stay!" The Old Country vs the New Country Joe Blanford: "I don't think I'd ever want to live any other place" Fred Foster: "I brought the last mail into Steamboat from Yampa on the stage. That was the last time I took the stage to Yampa." Clay Monson: "Pleasant Valley - My Mother Named It." Routes of Routt Three Wire Winter Staff & "Three Wire Winter" by Julie Lewis

: Issue #05, Spring 1977 - Three Wire Winter Collection; The 5th issue collection of Three Wire Winter includes oral histories from George Sauer, Clarence Wheeler and Florence Brown. The magazine features Jean Wren, George Sauer, Clarence Wheeler, Michelle Bernades, Sven Wiik, Florence Brown, Katherine & John Sandelin, as well as feature articles on horse breeding, chariot racing, skiing, the Winter Special Olympics. Table of Contents The race is on! Skiing - The Way We Were The 1977 Winter Special Olympics George Sauer...More Than a Superintendent! Chariot Racing Hawaii Comes to Steamboat Springs The Art of Cross-Country Skiing and Waxing "I Think, Really, It Started When We Came Over Rabbit Ears Pass, And I Saw This Valley" Reminiscence of Katherine Ellis Sandlin Wild Flowers at S-S Ranch

: Issue #06, Fall 1977 - Three Wire Winter Collection; The 6th issue collection of Three Wire Winter includes oral histories from Vernon Summer, Katherine Harwig, Lewis Phillips, Bob Hurd, and Mabel Meyrs The magazine features Jorge Torruella, Jeff Simon, Esther DelliQuadri, Jeff Steber, Monte Bell, Anthony Matthews, Vernon Summer, Katherine Harwig, Lewis Phillips, Bob Hurd, Joe Blandford, Mabel Meyrs, Bob & Elaine Gay, Ernest "Dude" Todd as well as feature articles on stained glass construction, hang-gliding and Harwigs. Table of Contents Power From the Sun....Stained Glass "5000 feet off the ground and there's nothing like it" Vernon Summer: "Why go Anywhere When You're Already There?" Harwigs: We've Never Been Skunked "Time writes all history" Mabel Myers: "I can remember when there was no sign of a town. It was just ranch after ranch after ranch." Bob Gay: "If I had another 40 year hitch." Dude Todd - The man who cared. Letters from our Readers Three Wire Winter Staff and "Panorama of the Peaks" by Bernice Allin

: Issue #07, Spring 1978 - Three Wire Winter Collection; The 7th issue collection of Three Wire Winter includes oral histories from Pete Hoffman, Dorothy Wither, Alma Baer, Hazie Werner, Frances & George Wheeler, Ruth Carver, and Nellie Soash. The magazine features "Little" Dave Shoffner, Alma Baer, Hazie Werner, George & Frances Wheeler, Nellie Soash as well as feature articles on solar heating, childhood games, the Cabin Hotel, a Routt County gun collection, country schoolhouses, and a letter from the editor. Table of Contents "Little" Dave Shoffner: "There's no Time to Waste" Power from the Sun...Solar Heating Games We Play A Letter From the Editors - Three Wire Winter's next issue Steamboat Finest Cabin: 1910-1939 The Old Standby Hazie Werner: "I wouldn't be idle; I like to be busy!" Forgotten Country Schools The Columbine Remembers by Bill May & Rabbit Ears by Anthony Matthews

: Issue #08, Fall 1978 - Three Wire Winter Collection; The 8th issue collection of Three Wire Winter includes oral histories from Bob Swineheart, Leo Coyner, Lonny Vanatta, Eleanor Bliss and Guy Bennett. The magazine features Bob Swinehart, Leo Coyner, Lonny Vanatta, Carl Ramunno, Ray Pedersen, Eleanor Bliss, and Mr. Guy Bennett as well as a feature article on the rodeo. Table of Contents Bob Swinehart: "From Horse and Buggy to Men on the Moon" Leo Coyner: "Anytime's a good time if you use it right" Lonny Vanatta: From Little Toot to Pro Racer Coach Ramunno: It has Always Been Tough Ray Pedersen Brand Inspector Eleanor Bliss: A great deal has been done, but there's more to do. Rodeo - The Dangerous Sport Mr. Guy Bennett - My New Acquaintance

: Issue #09, Spring 1979 - Three Wire Winter Collection; The 9th issue collection of Three Wire Winter includes oral histories from Ordway Mellen, Calla, Bill and Marianne Appel, Art Adams, Forrest Warren, Russell Crawford, Duane Acord, and Pat Green Sandefur. The magazine features Ordway Mellen, the Appel family, Art Adams, Forest Warren, Russell Crawford, Duane Acord, Pat Green Sandefur, Leo Snowden and a featured article on working with handicapped children. Table of Contents We are all unique individuals.. Ordway Mellen: "I take a pleasure in that." The Appel Family - then 'til now. Art Adams: "It was all elbows and grease then" Forrest Warren: "They'll never know what we had." Russell Crawford & Duane Acord: "A person really has to like ranching to do it." Pat Green Sandefur - Steamboat Business Woman Leo Snowden: "I don't know how many horses I've shod through the years!" Poem: The Valley Life, Where a Cowboy's King by William B. May

: Issue #10, Winter 1979 - Three Wire Winter Collection; The 10th issue collection of Three Wire Winter includes oral histories from Bill Egelhoff, Larry Kaminski, Doak Walker, Robin Olds, Wilma Marshall, Si Lockhart and Dee Richards The magazine features William Aloysius Yeager, Larry Kaminski, Doak Walker, Walt Barns, Robin Olds, Don Valentine, Chapmen Theil, Daniel Jenkins, Si Lockhart and Dee Richards. It includes articles about the Steamboat Repertory Theatre, the art of canning, and The Unique Shop. Table of Contents "I seldom meet people in theater I don't like." Steamboat Repertory Theater William Aloysius Yeager: Guide and Outfitter The Pros: Larry Kaminski, Doak Walker, Walt Barnes "Older men declare war, but youth must fight." Robin Olds Up, Up and Away: Three Local Pilots Love in a Jar: A Story of Canning Let's be Unique with Virginia Andrew "I have a fondness for the old days..." Si Lockhart A Story of Dee Richards Poems by Orval Bedall & Jan Fishback

: Issue #11, Spring 1980 - Three Wire Winter Collection; The 11th issue collection of Three Wire Winter includes oral histories from Sam McBride, Perly Green, Cory Guire, Wayne Whitecotton, Henry Zehner, Glenn Werner, Mark Drake, Daryl Hansen The magazine includes Sam McBride, Frances (Dorr) Wheeler, Perly Green, Cory Guire, and Wayne Whitecotton with fetaure articles on the Royal Hotel, Euzoa Bible Church, Professional Freestyle skiing, and a history of the Steamboat Sailors Football 1929 Yampa Valley Championship. Table of Contents "We set up a tent, unloaded the truck and started building. There's No Place Like Home" Sam McBride Common Purposes are Good for People: Frances (Dorr) Wheeler I Still Use the Old Pitchfork: Perly Green A Man of Many Hobbies: Cory Guire "It was just life as it comes." Wayne Whitecotton Long Gone, but not Forgotton: The Royal Hotel The first 90 Years: Euzoa Bible Story Professional Freestyle Skiing: Park Smally & Rusty Taylor "It was hard-nosed football..." 1929-1979 Five Years After... Poem "Once Begun, Three Wire Winter Done" by Jan Fishback & Tanna Eck

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