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Provisional <br />' HISTORIC EUROAMERICAN OCCUPATION CHRONOLOGY <br />• NORTH FORK VICINITY Of <br />THE GUNNISON RIVER VALLEY, COLORADO <br />Sequential Historical Phases <br />Ends ca. 1930 <br />Phase of <br />Urbanization and <br />Intensive Land Exploitation <br />ca. 1890's to 1920's <br />After 1890's <br />homesteading tradition <br />continues but changes <br />Includes: <br />Coal mining traditions; <br />Fruit ranching traditions; <br />Tradition of urban gro>vth; <br />Stock ranching traditions <br />Phase of <br />EYnphasizes 1•"ajor cultural <br />homesteading Primary Settlement tradition is stock <br />tradition }Yom and Extensive land Exploitation ranching <br />ca. 1878 ca. 1876 - 1890's <br />Phase of <br />Intermittent Exploration and <br />Indian/White Interaction <br />ca. 1600 - 1876 <br />Prepared by: Steven G. Baker <br />Centuries Research, Inc. <br />(• 1 <br />