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Surnmar-, of land Claims Within the Project Area Robert F RockwclI (1919) Cash - for property within the SLIA NF V, and NE'/. NE' /4 (Document No. 011551. Accession No. 673041) Jahn R Morrell (1942) Homestead Entry. Stock Raising - for property within the SW' /{ NW'/.. NW' /A NW'/ :, (Document No. 046322, Accession No. 1 1 15145) From 1938 to 1939. 2 patents were Jesse J Barrow. (1938) Homestead Entry, Stock Raising, - for appm%cd for lands within Section property within the SWIA NW' /. (Document No. 041445, 5 (Township 13 S.. Range 91 W) Accession No. 1096149) Arthur S Wade (1939) Homestead Entry. Stock Raising - for property within the SW !/A NE 1/4 (Document No. 041424, Accession No. 1 104166) From 1925 to 1938.2 patents were Jesse J Barrow, ( 1938) Homestead Entn, Stock Raising - for approved for lands within Section 6 proprrtr ti %ithin the S' z NE' i (Document No. 041445, Accession loo. (Township 13 S.. Range 91 W) 1096179) Regional archaeological studies suggest nearly continuous human occupation of west - central Colorado for the past 12.000 years. Evidence of the Paleoindian Era's, the Archaic Era's, Formative Era's, and Protohistoric Era's has been found in the area. An overview of the prehistory is provided in a document published br• the Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists' entitled Colorado Prehistory., A Context for the Northern Colorado Plateau (Red and Metcalf 1999). Historic records suggest occupation or use of the region by EuroAmerican explorers. trappers, settlers, miners, and ranchers. Significantly. the Spanish expedition of Dominquez and Escalante. which passed near the study area along I lubbard Creek in 1776. was the first Euro - American incursion into the area. Removal of the Utes in 1881 freed the valley of the North Fork of the Gunnison for agricultural development, railroad construction. and permanent settlement. By the mid- 1880's this alluvial valley had been found suitable for fruit growing. Valley hay production combined with summer range in the surrounding mountains aided the establishment of a prosperous livestock industry until a severe winter kill in 1893 reduced many of the herds. The construction of an extension of the D&RG Railroad into the North Fork Valley by 1902 (as far as Paonia) aided fruit growers and cattlemen. Additional track laid into Somerset in subsequent years (by 1906) initiated the coal mining boom. Overviews of the history of the region are provided in the Colorado Historical Society's publication entitled Colorado Plateau Country Historic Context (Husband 1980 and in the Bureau of Land Management's publication Frontier in Transition (O'Rourke 1980). Significantly, a relatively new historical context has been published by the Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists entitled Colorado History: A Content for Historical :Archaeology (Church et al. 2007).