Fruita

William Pabor arrived in Western Colorado before the advent of irrigation, and the land presented a barren and desolate sight. But he saw something entirely different. In the spring of 1884, lying on the bare floor of a log cabin on the site of what is now the town of Fruita, I watched the moonbeams play on the Roan Cliffs and across Pinon Mesa, Pabor wrote. The silence of centuries seemed resting upon the plain. . . . But visions of the possibilities of the future swept before me. I saw homes founded, I saw family circles gathered together. I saw vineyards and orchards, and rose-embowered cottages in which love and happiness and contentment abode. . . . I heard the merry voices of children yet to be born. I heard the singing of harvesters bringing in the sheaves of golden grain. Pabor soon turned vision into reality and founded the town of Fruita.

Author: Denise Hight, Steve Hight
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: 01/17/2011
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.57w x 0.34d
ISBN: 9780738581729

About the Author
Hight, Denise: - Several photographers recorded this Mesa County community s story through the years, and their evocative images were collected by the Lower Valley Heritage Chapter. Local authors and historians Denise Hight and Steve Hight turned to the chapter s collection and the photographs of others to relate Fruita s legacy onward from William Pabor s early days.