People
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- Captain George Wray
- A gold prospector who, along with William Doyle and Joseph Hahn, found gold near the foot of Hahn’s Peak in Routt County. In 1866, Wray left to get provisions in Empire, promising to return shortly. He never returned, and Doyle and Hahn starved, with Hahn finally succumbing to starvation and the elements.
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- Captain Jack
- An old California miner who, along with his partner Philip Arnold, salted a field on Diamond Peak in Colorado giving it the appearance of an area rich in diamonds and other precious stones. He enriched himself by selling a claim for an enormous sum in 1872, before his misdeed was discovered.
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- Captain Jack (Ute)
- A Ute who led a group who refused to follow Nathan C. Meeker to a new White River Agency, prior to the Meeker Massacre.
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- Captain Worthington
- He as a former Union soldier who, in 1905, hired parties to survey the Redlands area of Mesa County, Colorado for possible settlement. E.L. Morse, a civil engineer who had settled in Fruitvale, did some of the surveys, and was accompanied by his nephew Levi Morse.
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- Cara Guerrieri
- Contributor to "Our River Our Valley", (source: Our River Our Valley: A Gunnison Valley Journal.)
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- Carillion Creed
- Contributor and Assistant Editor to "Being Here: A Gunnison Valley Journal," Daughter of Joyce Creed, Sister of Cameron and Caleb Creed, moved to Gunnison, CO from western Oklahoma approximately 1994. (source: Being Here: A Gunnison Valley Journal). Contributor to "The where that tells us who we are: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source: The where that tells us who we are: A Gunnison Valley Journal)