People

: Lou Stuart; According to oral history interviewee James "Buzz" Brouse, Stuart was the owner of a sheepherding outfit who lived up near Pinon Mesa. Lou got upset about Jim Blue, a moonshiner, selling alcohol to his sheep herders and went to run him out of town. Lou ended up shooting and killing Jim during a heated argument. Lou was shot five times but survived. According to oral history interviewee George "Vern" Wood, Stuart was the "mover" for a sheep rancher named Fred Burford, and it was Burford who told Stuart to run Jim Blue off.

: Loudene "Miss Loudene" Humeston; She was born in Collbran, Colorado to Albert and Ida Humeston and was schooled there for 12 years. The school board of Collbran offered her a job as a teacher (at $75 a month), which she took. She taught second and third graders for 3 years, on a teacher's certificate, before going to Western State College for a year of further education. Then she taught for some years while taking summer school to round out her education. In addition to more traditional education, she taught music to her students. She played piano in the Collbran Town Orchestra for fortnightly box socials. She served two years as postmistress (1940-1941) as her father's health was failing. As of 1980, she was still teaching the Collbran Congregational Church's Sunday School, even though she retired from the formal school. She was awarded the Plateau Valley Chamber of Commerce's Citizen of the Year Award in 1979. She never married.

: Louie Unser; A racer from Colorado Springs who came to Mesa County to compete in the inaugural Land's End Race, an automobile race that took place in 1941. He was one of four brothers who raced, including famed racers Al and Bobby Unser.

: Louis A. Roybal, Sr.; He was born to Jose Urbano Roybal and Delfina (Rivera) Roybal in Taos, New Mexico. His mother was from a prominent family in Alamosa, Colorado, with one family member, Louis Rivera, founding the bank in nearby La Jara. He grew up in the Oklahoma panhandle, where his parents homesteaded. Prior to World War I, Louis worked on a cattle ranch as a cowboy for $1.00 a day. With the onset of the war, he joined the US Navy. He worked as a fireman on the USS Illinois, then transferred to what he called the “largest ship afloat” during the war. He saw action during the Battle of Scapa Flow. His ship encountered German submarines and captured German ships. After the war, he signed up for the regular navy, where he served for sixteen years. He was stationed primarily in San Diego, though he did sail on the USS Langley, the first US aircraft carrier, and on the USS Lexington at a time when pilots were learning to land on such carriers. He was on a ship sent to Nicaragua during the United States’ military occupation of that country. He married Maria La Luz Trujillo of Tercio, Colorado in Trinidad in 1928. Together they had seven children. He retired from the military in 1937, so that he could spend more time with his family.

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