People

: Guy V. Snook; He was born in Olathe, Colorado. According to his sister Della (Snook) Mack, he and his family were living in the town of Fruita by around 1896, when Guy was 8. They moved to what became known as Snooks Bottom, originally a homestead established by his parents William T. Snook and Clara P. Snook, in 1900. Della, in a letter read by her niece and oral history interviewee Ida Mae (Snook) Waggoner, described Guy as a "big, strong boy" who would help row the children across the Colorado River so that they could get to the Dobie School. When the reservoir in Snooks Bottom burst in 1910, the family moved back to Fruita, where William purchased a livery stable that Guy later ran. He was a cowboy and very nearly a world champion rider. After his marriage to Margaret Irvine, they lived in Victor, on a ranch in New Mexico, in Craig, Colorado, where he worked for the livery stable and hauled lumber to homesteaders, and then in Axel, Colorado, where he was also a mine supplier. They later lived on a ranch on Roan Creek with William Snook, then in Fruitvale, where they farmed fruit for several years, and then in Palisade, where he and Margaret ran a filling station. He died of an unexpected illness in 1960.

: Gwendolyn (Peacock) McKee; She was born in Grand Junction, Colorado, at a home on the southeast corner of the intersection of 4th Street and Ouray Avenue. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother worked at the Stratmore Hotel in Salida, which was owned by an aunt and uncle. Upon the hotel’s sale, she and her mother moved back to Denver, but returned to Salida so that her mother could work in the Rainbow Hotel, which her uncle had purchased. Gwendolyn sometimes worked the desk at eleven years old. She finished school at East High School in Denver, and then got a job with the telephone company. She went to Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado, where she met her husband Donald Wilson McKee. They married in 1927, but later divorced.

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