People

: Wally Holt; According to William Rump, who played sports at Grand Junction High School, Holt was the only coach of any sort at the school in the 1920’s, and coached multiple sports, including football and basketball. He often carpooled with the Rump family to out-of-town sports engagements.

: Wally Smith; A road builder based in Mesa County, Colorado who worked on projects with Harry Gardner in the first half of the Twentieth century. He retired a wealthy man and relocated to Craig.

: Walt Carmack; He was a cowboy who worked in the Plateau Valley area of Mesa County. According to oral history interviewee Walter “Dick” Lloyd, who worked with Carmack, he worked primarily running cattle in the area of Sunnyside Road between Collbran and De Beque. Lloyd also states that Carmack was “an awful boozer at times back in bootleg times,” but that he quit drinking.

: Walt Goslin; According to oral history interviewee James Brouse, Goslin was spoken of by old timers on Glade Park as the first rancher to bring sheep into the area. Charles Sieber and the cowhands of the S-Cross ranch reputedly drove many of his sheep over a cliff and did “everything to get [Goslin] out of there.”

: Walt Wood; Walt was born in Gorham, Colorado on December 3, 1916. He married E. Fern Tobey on September 8, 1940 and they had two children. Walt and Fern moved to Lafayette, CO around 1946 after he got out of the Navy. They lived at 308 East Cleveland Street. Walt had a career working for the Public Service Company and then as the business representative for the Boulder Carpenters Local. He was also involved with the VFW, the Boy Scouts, and the Cemetery and Parks Committee. Walt served on both the town Lafayette Town Board and the Lafayette School Board.

: Walter "Walt" Anderson; Husband of Elizabeth Anderson. Early 20th Century Mesa County, Colorado rancher who lived in the Whitewater, Kannah Creek area.

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