People: James Walker, William Walker (although not mentioned by name), Charles Hockaday, Dick and Edith Scates, George Giggey, Kossler Family, Ernie Betasso -- Places: Walker Ranch, Crescent Meadows -- Subjects: logging (hauling timbers, operation of stationary steam-powered saw), cattle and hay barns (type and size of barns, stacking hay, feeding the cattle, wheat straw bedding), crops (hay, alfalfa, potatoes), cattle (size of herd, cattle brand), two-story ranch house (room arrangement, school room, additions), wildlife on ranch (skunks, coyotes, weasels, bobcats, wolf, bear, badgers, trapping and sale of hides), Indian campsites, forest fires, Kossler cemetery, early roads (Bear Canyon Road, Gregory Canyon Road, pulling boilers, etc. to Black Hawk and Central City), family life (getting to town in winter, Jim's 1926 Dodge truck, dances), early fencing on ranch, hand-forged gate hinges, schools and teachers on Flagstaff, Boulder Preparatory School.