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- Emmett Elizondo
- Basque sheepherder and co-founder of the Fruita State Bank. He ran his own sheep ranching outfit. He was born in Sumbilla, Spain to Basque father and mother Jose Antonio Elizondo and Juana Martina Errandonea Elizondo. Emmett was one of ten children. He came to the United States with two brothers in 1915, when he was about 18 years old. His first sheepherding job in his new country was in Buffalo, Wyoming for $40 a month. He then went to Ogden, Utah, where he worked for two years for a sheep outfit. In 1922, he and two partners leased a flock of sheep from a man in Salt Lake City. They ran the sheep for several years and owned 3,000 sheep of their own by the end of the lease. He moved to Western Colorado, first in Sapinero, where he owned his own sheep ranching outfit. Through honesty, hard work and shrewd dealings, he amassed acreage all around the Uncompahgre Plateau, in both Western Colorado and eastern Utah. By the time he was 80 years old, in 1977, he owned Colorado-Utah Livestock Company, the Emmett Elizondo Company, and the Curecanti Sheep Company, with land holdings totalling 25,400 acres. The companies also leased land. At the height of his operations, he had 30,000 ewes. He helped to organize the Fruita State Bank, served on the board of directors for a bank in Montrose, and assisted with the creation of the Western Colorado Center for the Arts (Art Center). In 1965, he and three other Basque became owners of the Warren Livestock Company, a large and old company in Wyoming (dating from 1874). He had one son and grandchildren.
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- Emmi Farris
- A former employee of Mesa County Libraries and co-host of the Audissey podcast.
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- Emmi Hall
- Emmi Hall, was the third Artist in Residence at Mesa County Libraries at 970West Studio. She served as the Artist in Residence from January 9 - April 24, 2017. Farris is a graduate of Colorado Mesa University with a bachelor of fine arts in graphic design, and co-founder of the Colorado Mesa University Art and Design Alumni Chapter. She has educated children and adults alike in the art of graphic design, drawing, sketching, watercolor and other fundamental principles of art at The Western Colorado Community College, The Art Center of Western Colorado, and the Lafayette Public Library. Her passions include education and art with the belief that artistic expression is a necessity of living. In order to survive there must be growth. In order to grow there must be education. In order to educate ourselves we must also be able to teach others. Emmi is a strong believer in the expansion of mastery and skill through artistic expression. Her passion for art flows from her yearning to share knowledge: learn all you can to share all you can. Currently she works as a communications coordinator for the Lafayette Public Library in Lafayette, Colorado.