People

: Charles Zimmerman; He was born in Illinois and moved with his wife and family from Kansas to Mesa County, Colorado in 1907. They settled first in Appleton and then in Clifton, where he farmed. During the 1880's he worked as a surveyor. He first came to Colorado for the survey of a canal, and then took a job on a cattle ranch near the La Sal Mountains for a time. After marriage, he returned to the Grand Valley with the intent to farm apples. He did grow apples until frost and the coddling moth made it impossible to turn a profit. He also grew sugar beets. Father of Harold V. Zimmerman.

: Charley Chittenden; He was a horse trainer who worked with his half-brother, Dave Knight, capturing and breaking wild horses. They were both born in Oklahoma to a Cherokee mother. Charles Burg, who worked breaking horses with both brothers, recalls Charley as tall and dark with black hair and blue eyes. He had lots of gold teeth, and was, according to Burg, more used to sleeping in “modern hotels” than he was sleeping on the ground “with the snakes.” According to William Whatley, he was also fairly educated and was known for ordering in French at restaurants. Burg says of Chittenden, “to put it mildly, he was crazy.”

: Charley Holmes; He was a good friend and legal partner of Silmon L. Smith. The two of them prospected for uranium together, invested in oil shale leases, and had a good time together.

: Charley Marlow; A former outlaw who worked as a rancher in the Kannah Creek area in the early Twentieth century.

: Charley Redd; Owner of La Sal Livestock in the La Sal, Utah. He bought the Pittsburgh Cattle Company from J. M. Cunningham and Carpenter in 1914. Redd worked in the livestock trade from at least 1936-1973. According to livestock auctioneer Howard Shults, Redd owned 1,200 commercial cattle, ran sheep, and had 65 employees in 1970, when he was in his early seventies. He based his operations in La Sal, but also had a ranch in Snowmass, Colorado, with 200 head of cattle there. He acquired land around Aspen, DeBeque, Dolores, La Sal, Norwood, Paradox, and Snowmass (partly through buying out his siblings and half-siblings). He owned the Buick and Chevrolet agencies in Moab and La Sal, respectively and was, according to auctioneer Howard Shults, who had many business dealings with Redd, a good business man. Shults states that Redd "owned" the town of La Sal. Redd also had “one of the best group of quarter horses there was in this country,” according to Shults. He was a Mormon whose father had two wives. It was their family’s custom to refer to half-siblings as ‘cousins’. He was a financial supporter of Ft. Lewis College in Durango.

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