People

: Frederic "Wally" Bissinger; Frederic "Wally" Bissinger was interviewed in 2019 for MCL's Veteran's Remember project.

: Frederick Franklin "Fred" Simineo; An early settler of the Whitewater area of Mesa County, Colorado. According to his son, oral history interviewee Walt Simineo, he was born in Larkspur, Colorado. The 1880 US Census lists his state of birth as Michigan. His parents were Simon Jr. (a French-Canadian immigrant) and Sophia Simineo. Fred’s mother died when he was eleven and it appears from census records that he and his siblings were raised by their father. He was a trail driver in a cattle ranching operation out of Texas. He met Josephine Vincent in Missouri while he was breaking horses for the U.S. Cavalry. They married in 1897, and Census records show them living in Mesa County, Colorado by 1900, when he was 28. There, they rented a cattle ranch and their children attended school.

: Frederick Gilmer Bonfils; Bonfils was the longtime owner and publisher of The Denver Post newspaper, which he purchased with Harry Tammen in 1895 and ran until his death in 1933. Bonfils was a rival of Walter Walker, owner of The Daily Sentinel and major Democratic Party operative in the State of Colorado. At one point, Bonfils caught a 6 or 8 pound trout and put it on display in The Denver Post window, also writing a story about it. Walker wrote a piece to Time magazine telling them that the fish was actually a beloved pet fish named Elmer from a resort in Wyoming, who had loved being pet when he came to the surface for food. According to the book Amole One More Time by Gene Amole, Bonfils was involved in a libel suit at the time of his death. Walker had leveled several accusations and names at Bonfils in a speech published by the Rocky Mountain News.