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.

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