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 spaces. The area has also been fertile ground for fossil hunters; and Fruita has both its own fossil; Fruitafossor windssheffeli; and its own dinosaur; Fruitadens haagarorum. Fruita is also known for its unusual characters; including a headless chicken named Mike and a feline journalist named Charlie the Cat. From the 1910 apple queen Mabel Skinner to the pizza queens; Anne Keller and Jen Zeuner; of today; presented here are just a few of the stories of Fruita�s always fascinating legendary locals.
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