People

: Morgan Stuart Goss; Early Twentieth century Grand Junction and Fruita resident, cowboy and rancher. He was born a few miles north of Fruita, Colorado, as the youngest of 13 siblings (6 brothers and 7 sisters). He began cowpunching when he was 12 years old in the Douglass Pass area, on a roundup for a man named John White. He quit after five years, when his parents became ill. At that point, he had 110 cattle of his own, which he sold. Morgan met his wife at the Cowpuncher’s Ball in Fruita and was married in 1919 at 27 years old. He later farmed his father’s land. He also did carpenter work, worked for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, and worked building army barracks in Fairbanks, Alaska and elsewhere.

: Moriah S. Scott; Student at Colorado Christian University, graduated May, 2016.

: Morrie Shepard; Morris Shepard was born in Boston. In 1943, Shepard graduated from Sharon High School (Massachusetts). In 1933, Shepard discovered a pair of old skis in the basement of his home and his life-long love affair with skiing began. As a youth, alongside his childhood friend Pete Seibert, Shepard rigged a gasoline engine powered rope tow for neighborhood skiing. Shepard and Seibert also skied in New Hampshire with their Boy Scout troop. At the end of World War II after serving in the U.S. Navy Air Corps, Shepard went to Aspen, Colorado to visit Seibert. During Shepard's visit with Seibert, the Aspen ski school director asked Morrie Shepard to teach a few classes. Soon after, the Shepards relocated to Aspen. They subsequently moved to Vail where Shepard became Vail’s first ski school director and a member of Vail’s first ski team. In 1965, the Shepards removed to Dubuque, Iowa to work with Bob Lange to produce a plastic ski boot prototype. In 1967, the Shepards migrated to Boulder, Colorado to set up a Lange ski boot factory in Broomfield. In 1982, the Shepards returned to Vail. Shepard was inducted into the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in 2003. Morrie and Suzie Shepard were married 50 years; they have 3 children. The image subjects (left to right) are Pete Seibert and Morrie Shepard.

: Morris Strauss; A clothing store owner on Grand Junction, Colorado’s Main Street in the early Twentieth century and possibly the first clothier in town. He was a Jewish immigrant from Wurttemberg, Germany who, according to the 1860 US Census, was living in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania by the age of 22 and working as a merchant. IRS valuations from 1864 show his business worth $600. The 1870 Census shows him living in Illinois and married to Terrise Strouse, also of Germany. He was drafted during the US Civil War in 1863, but it is unclear whether or not he served in the military. Oral history interviewee Glenn McFall describes him as small in stature and the Ute were said to have referred to him as “Big Little Man”. The December 22, 1883 edition of the Grand Junction News mentioned a man named "Strause" who operated the O.K. Clothing store. He sold to cowboys and others at very affordable prices.

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