| Legendary Locals of Fruita Contributor(s): Hight, Denise (Author), Hight, Steve (Author) |
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ISBN: 1467102296 ISBN-13: 9781467102292 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2015943309 |
| Series: Legendary Locals |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.8" W x 9.5" (0.80 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: New York City poet and newspaper editor William Pabor headed to Colorado in 1870, heeding Horace Greeley's advice to "go West." After helping to establish Greeley, Colorado Springs, and Fort Collins, Pabor continued west over the Rocky Mountains and founded Fruita as a family-oriented, agrarian-based community in 1884. Since its inception, Fruita has attracted farmers, ranchers, shopkeepers, entrepreneurs, writers, and visionaries, who all came in search of community spirit and the wide-open spaces. The area has also been fertile ground for fossil hunters, and Fruita has both its own fossil, Fruitafossor windssheffeli, and its own dinosaur, Fruitadens haagarorum. Fruita is also known for its unusual characters, including a headless chicken named Mike and a feline journalist named Charlie the Cat. From the 1910 apple queen Mabel Skinner to the pizza queens, Anne Keller and Jen Zeuner, of today, presented here are just a few of the stories of Fruita's always fascinating legendary locals. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hight, Denise: - Local historians and writers Denise and Steve Hight are the authors of Images of America: Fruita, published in 2011. They are both graduates of Mesa State College (now Colorado Mesa University.) |