Entry ID: 1259
Institution: Hinsdale County Historical Society
Medium(s): Audio, Transcript
Access: Contact Institution
Narrator: Perk Vickers
Date Unknown
Location Tags: Hinsdale County, Lake City
Topic Tags: Pioneer, Local Business, Youth, Tourism, Mining, Government, Water
Description: Perk Vickers: 1914–2014. Topics: pioneer Vickers, Carey, and Madison families; father’s saloon before Prohibition; childhood in Lake City; development of first dude ranch in Hinsdale County in 1930s; tourism during 1940s and 1950s; mining during 1950s; politics and water on Western Slope. Early to mid-twentieth century.
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