Copies of 15 statements of Chaffee County pioneers compiled by Salida resident Richard Eaton Carroll (1901-1987):

• J.A. Closs "Early history of Cottonwood mining districts"
• E.E. (Ezra) Ohmert "Story of a pioneer boy"
• John Borrell "Freighting in the early days"
• Richard Evans "Early days at Brown's Canon and vicinity"
• Max Dickman
• Alice Hiltz
• Martha R. Mahon and John E. Paul
• Alice Parks
• Lee Anna Everett
• Lellon Blank
• Isaac Williard Haight
• Elizabeth Harrington "Story of a pioneer woman"
• David Simonson
• Fred A. Seelinger
• John Mathews

Richard Carroll's research was done as part of a Civil Works Administration (CWA) project during the Great Depression. Martha R. Mahon and John E. Paul's statement and Elizabeth Harrington's "Story of a pioneer woman" appeared in Under the Angel of Shavano by George G. Everett and Dr. Wendell F. Hutchinson. Carroll may have also used these statements to write "The founding of Salida, Colorado," which appeared in Under the Angel of Shavano, but was originally written for Colorado Magazine, July 1934, Vol. XI, No. 4.

This collection is also available on microfilm at the Colorado Historical Society. It's part of their Miscellaneous Microfilm Collection. (Call number: MF Un3cwa, Reel 2, Pamphlet #346)