People

: John Brown; A freighter who came from Texas and homesteaded in the Collbran area. According to oral history interviewee Anna (Barker) Foster, John Brown was one of the first settlers in the town of Mesa. He came to the area around 1882 while he was hauling freight between Texas and Montana. On his way from Delta to Collbran, he chanced to see a valley where the town of Mesa is now, and settled there. He donated land for the first school building. He married Elnora Bertholf, who was one of the first school teachers in Mesa.

: John Bruns; Participated in Cattlemen's Days in the early years of the event.

: John C. Frémont; John Charles Frémont or Fremont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, politician, and soldier who, in 1856, became the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. During the 1840s, when he led four expeditions into the American West, that era's penny press and admiring historians accorded Frémont the sobriquet The Pathfinder. [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Frémont]

: John C. Osgood; He started the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. In the late Nineteenth century, he also established Redstone as a company town for his workers on the Crystal River Railroad, which transported coal from Western Slope mines to the Colorado Fuel and Iron foundry in Pueblo.

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