People

: Robert Drury "Bob" McCray; He was born in Fulton, Missouri to Ralph McCray and Lucile Lillian (Lawther) McCray. His father was a truck driver and his mother was a homemaker. In 1946, when he was eighteen years old, he moved to Mill Valley, California, where he was a member of the Merchant Marine. By 1950, the US Census shows him in Mariposa, California, near Yosemite National park, where he was employed by the Visalia Saddle Company. There, he learned how to make saddles and became familiar with saddle varieties and construction techniques. He eventually settled in Mesa County, Colorado, where he owned the Diamond Saddle Shop at 352 29 Road (also the address of his residence). Some of his saddles were featured in the paintings of Western artists. He married Elizabeth Morton in 1948. They had a daughter before divorcing in 1981. Robert married two more times, with his last marriage to Reba Conn in 1989. He died at the age of seventy-five.

: Robert E. Swanson; An employee with the British Columbia Railway, inventor of train chimes, horns, and whistles, and an expert on train whistles in North America.

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