People

: Fred Field; Cattlemen's Days Parade Marshall 2006 Gunnison County Commissioner in 1982 (From Cattlemen's Days 1982 Souvenir Program) Started with first registered Hereford purchase for 4-H at age 9. Married Mary Esther McIlwee 1951 raised 3 sons. Earned trophies in cutting-horse competitions in the 1960's and carried professional rodeo card for 10 years (calf and team roping events) competing in Cattlemen's Days for 50 years (minus 2 Army years). Member of Gunnison Stockgrowers Association (50 years), directed Gunnison Bank & Trust, past president of the Cattlemen's Days Committee and former Gunnison County Commissioner (23 years). & Gunnison Area Foundation. Lifelong supporters of 4-H.

: Fred Hottes; He was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States. He apparently settled in Illinois, and US Census records show both of his children having been born there. His wife Barbara Hottes was also from Germany. Census records show them living in Palisade, Colorado by 1900, where, according to researcher David Sundal, Fred was a fruit farmer. According to Sundal, they lived in a home, built in 1904, that was either a show home at the 1904 World's Fair in Saint Louis that was transported to Palisade at the fair's end, or an exact replica of that show home. Members of the Hottes family later moved to Grand Junction.

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