Fred Agee was the Forest Supervisor for the Cochetopa National Forest (now broken into San Isabel, Gunnison, and Rio Grande National Forests) and wrote a history of Chaffee County and the surrounding areas back in the early 1920s.
He was raised on a homestead in Sinbad Valley area of Mesa County, where his parents were early settlers. As a boy, he met outlaw Tom McCarty of the McCarty Gang. He was employed for a time in bridge construction.