Legendary Locals of Fruita

New York City poet and newspaper editor William Pabor headed to Colorado in 1870, heeding Horace Greeley's advice to go West. After helping to establish Greeley, Colorado Springs, and Fort Collins, Pabor continued west over the Rocky Mountains and founded Fruita as a family-oriented, agrarian-based community in 1884. Since its inception, Fruita has attracted farmers, ranchers, shopkeepers, entrepreneurs, writers, and visionaries, who all came in search of community spirit and the wide-open ...