People

: Harry Tracy; An outlaw of the Old West who was with Butch Cassidy and the Hole in the Wall Gang. He committed robberies and theft before being apprehended at Brown's Park, Colorado in 1898 along with P. L. Johnson, Judge Bennett, and David Lant following a gunfight that took place there. Tracy, along with fugitive David Lant, murdered Valentine Hoy, a member of a posse who helped capture them in Colorado in 1898. Tracy and Lant were placed in the Steamboat Springs jail but escaped. They were caught and transferred to the Pitkin County jail, but escaped again. Tracy was captured and incarcerated in the Oregon Penitentiary in 1901.

: Harvey Ball; He was born to Don Ball and Mary (Boldt) Ball in Belmont, Kansas. His father was a farmer. His mother was a German immigrant and homemaker. She died in 1911. The 1920 US Census shows Harvey living at the age of 13 with his older brother Lawrence and his wife Fannie in Deerfield, Kansas. Harvey came to join his father in Mesa County, Colorado in September 1920. Don Ball had come to Mesa County to farm fruit. Harvey attended Palisade High School for his first three years and graduated from Grand Junction High School in 1925. During high school, he was active in the Latin Club. He managed the Grand Junction Piggly Wiggly grocery store from 1925 to 1931. After Safeway bought Piggly Wiggly, he stayed with the company and managed Safeway stores from 1931 to 1971, when he retired. He managed the Rifle Safeway from 1944-45. He also filled in as a butcher sometimes. He married Reba E. Lester in Palisade on July 20, 1926. They had four children. They followed Harvey’s career as a manager, living in Grand Junction from 1925 to 1946, Rifle from 1946 to 1951, Grand Junction from 1952 to 1956, and Palisade from 1956 until their deaths. He was a member of the Palisade Methodist Church, the Lions Club, the Good Sam Travel Club, and a volunteer for Gray Gourmet. He died in the Palisade Nursing Home at the age of 81 and is buried in Memorial Gardens. *Photograph from the 1927 Grand Junction High School yearbook

: Harvey Calvin Bucklin; According to author Ruth Moss, Bucklin was a jailor in the Grand Junction Jail. On December 30, 1885, he was attacked by two horse thieves. The thieves seriously wounded Bucklin and escaped. They were later captured on Pinon Mesa. Bucklin “presumably recovered from his wounds” (Mesa County Historical Society newsletter, May-June 1983).

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