People

: Jess Nuesbaum; The superintendent of Mesa Verde National Park. He was disliked by Wyatt M. Wood for his uneducated and overly confident decision-making.

: Jess Snipes; A gun-slinger from the Plateau Valley area who nearly killed a man, but was foiled by a belt-buckle that blocked the bullet. He was the relative of Royal McCabe, a childhood friend of oral history interviewee Albert Rood.

: Jess Sumner; Andrew E. Riddle's partner at Yellow Bird Mine on La Sal Creek in Colorado, a mine where Riddle staked several claims. Sumner lived on La Sal Creek until he died of pneumonia.

: Jess Urban Sickenberger; A doctor from Grand Junction, Colorado. He was born in Pennsylvania, the son of German immigrants. He was apparently very serious about his profession. In 1916, he traveled to Mesa through heavy snow in order to treat Willard Foster, the dying three-year-old son of Anna (Barker) Foster. He was considered one of the top surgeons in Grand Junction in the 1920's. According to oral history interviewee Glenn McFall, Sickenberger, on his way to help a sick person, once punched a policeman who was climbing up on his riding board to reprimand him for speeding. 1920 U.S. Census records show him married to Maud (Wright) Sickenberger. After she passed away he married again, this time to Laura Eula Young in Boulder in 1931. In 1957, he married Etta Pearl Barker in Mesa County, Colorado. He also loved sports, and never missed a wrestling match or baseball game. During the 1920's, the Ku Klux Klan approached him about opening a hospital in town, telling him that they wanted him to run the hospital and that if he refused, they would run him out of town. Sickenberger refused and never heard anything further from the Klan.

: Jess Wood; Older brother of Eva (Wood) Leslie who was born in Ridgeway, Colorado, July 1, 1895.

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