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Essays and Data CollectionsTitles in blue are completed, click on the title to read the essay or data collection. The other titles are essays I plan to write. 1. Westward Migration: What were the forces prompting people to leave the East and move West? What was the role of the Civil War, the Homestead Act, British money? 2. Transition Time: Roughly 1825 - 1870, a record of Anglo activities in the community before the pioneering homesteaders made their presence known: the fir industry (1825 – 1850s), Cherokee Trail and Overland Trails (1850 – 1869, continuing the Westward Migration), tie hacks and the building the of the Union Pacific transcontinental railroad, (1862 – 1869). 3. Putting Down Roots: Roughly 1860 - 1890. This is the story of the settlers and homesteaders who came to this land, slowly and then more quickly moving up the drainages. At this point it is predominately a data summary, a large table of those who were settlers and homesteaders (53 December 2011), arranged chronologically along with the drainage and road, subsequent owners of the land, and other information I found interesting. It begins with the several ways people could obtain title to land. 4. Consolidation will be an essay on the process of larger more successful ranches growing via acquisition of smaller less successful homesteads. The essay will include the Roberts, Currie, Elliot, Brackenbury, Phantom Canyon Ranches, etc. 5. Transformation and Continuation will be two themes: how some of the large ranches were turned into residential subdivisions, and how other ranches did not change but continued the ranching traditions.
Currie
Ranch &Subdivisions John and Clarence Currie developed a ranch of 17,000
acres between 1906 and 1967 which was subsequently turned into a
number of subdivisions along 74E, Red Feather Lakes Road: Hewlett Gulch, Glacier
View Meadows, Green Mountain, Meadows, North Rim, and Crystal Lakes (west of Red
Feather Lakes). 6. Water History:
Lakes, Irrigation Ditches, Tunnels, Reservoirs
Putting Down Roots, a chronological listing of the early settlers and homesteaders, identifies location in terms of river/stream and road. |