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    Legendary Locals of Fruita
    Legendary Locals of Fruita
    Legendary Locals of Fruita
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    Legendary Locals of Fruita

    By Denise Hight and Steve Hight

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    New York City poet and newspaper editor William Pabor headed to Colorado in 1870, heeding Horace Greeley's advice to "go West." After helping to establish Greeley, Colorado Springs, and Fort Collins, Pabor continued west over the Rocky Mountains and founded Fruita as a family-oriented, agrarian-based community in 1884. Since its inception, Fruita has attracted farmers, ranchers, shopkeepers, entrepreneurs, writers, and visionaries, who all came in search of community spirit and the wide-open spaces. The area has also been fertile ground for fossil hunters, and Fruita has both its own fossil, Fruitafossor windssheffeli, and its own dinosaur, Fruitadens haagarorum. Fruita is also known for its unusual characters, including a headless chicken named Mike and a feline journalist named Charlie the Cat. From the 1910 apple queen Mabel Skinner to the pizza queens, Anne Keller and Jen Zeuner, of today, presented here are just a few of the stories of Fruita's always fascinating legendary locals.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLegendary Locals
    Release dateFeb 15, 2016
    ISBN9781439655788
    Legendary Locals of Fruita
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    Denise Hight

    Several photographers recorded this Mesa County community�s story through the years, and their evocative images were collected by the Lower Valley Heritage Chapter. Local authors and historians Denise Hight and Steve Hight turned to the chapter�s collection and the photographs of others to relate Fruita�s legacy onward from William Pabor�s early days.

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