People

: Richard Stenson; Contributor to "The where that tells us who we are: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source: The where that tells us who we are: A Gunnison Valley Journal)

: Richard Vader; Particpated in several years of Cattlemen's Days in the early days of the event.

: Richard W. Arnold; He was born in Columbus, Ohio to Emmett W. Arnold and Evelyn Mae (Churtz) Arnold. His father was a medical doctor. The 1940 US Census shows his mother working as a receptionist. His parents seem to have divorced and the 1950 census shows his father married to Helen D. Arnold, and Richard living with his father at the age of nine. He received a scholarship to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1957, graduating in 1961. He learned how to fly and how to be a gunner/bomber. His first pilot training assignment was at Webb Air Force Base. He was stationed in Germany from 1965 to 1967, where he served as part of a nuclear-capable squadron. He was transferred to Korat Air Force Base in Thailand, from where he flew missions over North Vietnam as part of the 13th Fighter Squadron. He returned to the United States in 1968. He attained the rank of Major and was awarded the SS w/30CC, the DFC w/occ, and the AM w/90CC. He graduated with a Master’s from the University of Southern California’s distance learning program in 1967. He received a Juris Doctorate from Cornell Law School in 1972. He married a German woman named Martha Sue Arnold on July 20, 1968 in Lynchburg, Virginia. They had a daughter. They moved to Grand Junction, Colorado on June 1, 1972. There, he practiced law with the firm Traylor, Arnold, Tompkins, and Black. He specialized in Real Estate Law, Probate Law, and Corporations Law.

: Richard Warren; He was the owner of a Dodge automobile dealership on Main Street in the 1920’s or 30’s, located across from The Daily Sentinel building between Sixth and Seventh Streets. According to Al Look, Advertising Manager of The Daily Sentinel, Warren had come from the East and was a little full of himself. He wanted special advertising rates from the Sentinel and grew angry when Look refused to deliver them.

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