“Dr. Rose Kidd Beere 1859-1927”

Performed by Rebecca A. Hunt, Ph.D.

Rose Kidd Beere was a doctor in Colorado in the nineteenth century. In 1892, she moved to Durango to practice medicine. In 1895 Governor Alva Adams asked her to take over the new State Home for Dependent and Neglected Children in Denver. In 1898, the First Colorado Infantry went to the Philippines during the Spanish-American War; and she went too, not as a doctor but as a nurse. After a year, she returned to Denver and became health officer for the Denver Public Schools. She was the doctor at the Poor Farm and ran Denver General Hospital. Dr. Rebecca Hunt will present a first-person account of Rose Kidd Beere‘s life.

Rebecca A. Hunt, is a third-generation Casper native, currently dividing her time between her Denver home and her family home on Casper Mountain. She graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1974 and the University of Oklahoma in 1997 and earned a Ph.D. in Western American History from the University of Colorado Boulder. She is on the advisory committee for History Colorado’s Center for Colorado Women’s History. 

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“Gone and Mostly Forgotten”

By Bob Easterly, P.M.

The first burial ground in Gunnison, Colorado, where the earliest pioneers are interred, drifted into oblivion about 1884. Gunnison native Bob Easterly got interested in the subject when he learned that the cemetery was on a ranch that his grandfather and father owned back in the 1930s. Sometimes called Boulevard Cemetery, it was accidentally uncovered in 1994 during a uranium mitigation project. After remediation in 1995, Boulevard once again slipped into oblivion.

Bob Easterly is a fourth-generation Coloradoan, who grew up as a rancher’s kid. He is retired from a career with two of Colorado’s pioneer financial institutions, a 30-year tour in the U.S. Naval Reserve and most recently worked in disaster recovery. He is a Past President of the Mount Evans Chapter – Sons of the American Revolution, Past Sheriff of the Denver Posse, and a member of numerous historical and genealogical societies in Colorado and Pennsylvania. He is a volunteer at the Archives and Local History Center of the Douglas County Library in Castle Rock. 

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“Twenty Miles of Fence: Blueprint of a Cowboy”

By Bob West

Twenty Miles of Fence recounts a decade of transformation when Bob West, a westerner at heart, decided to escape the pretense of his unfulfilling architectural life and to become, quite simply, a cowboy. A cowboy? That old cliché about biting off more than you can chew fittingly describes the lessons learned when West and his family bought the Devil’s Washtub Ranch in Wyoming and moved from near the yuppie haven of Boulder, Colorado. Little did West know how those years would test him, inspire him, and lead him back to his true character.

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