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Freeman Clyncke's grandparents came to Colorado in the late 1800s and settled south and east of Boulder. His grandfather and his three brothers farmed and ranched and have run the riding stables in Eldorado Springs for 42 years. He is one of seven children, three of whom still farmed (hay, wheat, barley, corn) and ranched (cattle and horses) at the time of the interview. As children, they milked cows before and after school (until the mid-1950s when his father bought a milking machine) and drove farm equipment. The family raised its own meats and vegetables and sold surplus milk to Watts-Hardy Dairy. The interview also describes social and recreational activities from his childhood, and it ends with a discussion of how farming in Boulder County has become difficult and is getting "squeezed out".

"This family narrative follows four families [John Bartlett Mason, Joseph B. Foster, Perkins Allen, and James John Hammontree] as their lives converge in Colorado in the 1860s and early 1870s (Chapters I-IV). A fifth family is that of Anderson Lafayette Mason and Nancy Eleanor Foster who met, then married in Central City, Colorado in 1875-1876 (Chapter V). Lafe and Nancy Mason raised their two boys, Charles Lewis and Harry Eugene Mason in Balarat Camp and Jamestown, Colorado. The sixth chapter brings together these families through the marriage of Charles Lewis Mason and Mabel Theresa Allen, from whom we descend in the 20th Century (Chapter VI). The final chapter, "The Mason Siblings", summarizes the lives of the children of Charles and Mabel Mason in the 20th century to about 1960 (Chapter VII)."

Leroy Schlagel was a prominent Longmont farmer whose family emigrated from Germany and Russia. Mr. Schlagel touches on a variety of topics: homesteading in the Longmont area, early white settlers' interactions with Indians, muskrat trapping, sugar beet farming, playing baseball with the Altona Grange on Nelson Road, other early families in the area (the Butterworths, Cushmans, Wagners, Voakes and Rudys), and the origins of the Left Hand Water Supply Company, which he helped to found. Mr. Schlagel began working in the beet fields at six years of age; he bought his first land when he was 18-years-old (80 acres at $200 an acre on Nelson Road), and he describes not only farming life, but also the decline of farming in the area and what the loss of that way of life has meant culturally. He also talks about his involvements in the 4-H Club, which led to his meeting President Truman; serving on the St. Vrain Valley School District school board, and planning the community of Clover Basin.

Russell Zweck was interviewed at his farm at 11007 N. 85th, Longmont, Colorado. Mr. Zweck's grandfather acquired the property from a land grant to a soldier during the Indian Wars. He has the original deed signed by President Andrew Johnson. Mr. Zweck owns 224 acres. He recalls and reflects on a time before refrigeration was available, when barter was the principal method of economic exchange, when German prisoners of war were imported for labor in Longmont, and when boys had BB guns and played marbles for keeps. He remembers when tires, rubber boots, shoes, sugar, and flour were rationed; bacon fat and newspapers were saved; and high school buddies died during WWII. He talks about the changes that have taken place between the World War II era and the late twentieth century in Boulder County with regard to culture, values, and the economics of farming.

This interview of Frank J. Montgomery of 10290 Isabelle Road, Route 3, Lafayette, Colorado, took place on June 21, 1995. Mr. Montgomery's grandfather emigrated from Ireland, traveled around the United States (including a stay in Minnesota where he met his wife), and homesteaded 160 acres in Lafayette in 1883. The property passed by inheritance to Mr. Montgomery's father, then to him. The family has lived and farmed on the property ever since. Mr. Montgomery tells of riding a pony to school at 95th and Isabelle. The family raised cows, horses, and chickens; and grew grain, hay, and sugar beets. He details the methods of sugar beet farming and harvesting. He describes farm equipment (threshing machines, binders, hay stackers, buck rakes), and the games they played during his childhood ("kick the can", Annie over the roof" and "fox and geese"). He reflects on changes in farming and the difficult economics of keeping farming land in the family.

This collection contains account books and diaries of a Boulder farmer in the late 1800s. The account books are daily records of various produce and farm stock that James Bateman sold at the Boulder market, as well as farm expenditures. The diaries chronicle the daily life of a farmer/retired person during this period.

These folders contain leaflets, programs, correspondence, memoranda, archivally photocopied newspaper clippings, and other printed materials from the library of the Boulder Daily Camera. Folder 4 includes the bylaws of the Eastern Coloradoans Inc., an organization formed in 1926 "for the purpose of developing the agricultural, livestock, and farming interests" for the area lying east of the Rocky Mountains. C. C. Cole was the first Director representing Boulder County.