"Grandma gave birth to a baby boy who was John Decker's father.  On the 6th of April, six days after they had arrived in Bluff.  Of course the baby was born in the covered wagon.  They took the wagon off the wheels, and set it under the shade of a big old cottonwood tree.  Now it would have been a little earlier than right now and it’s kind of cool now to have a baby out here in a covered wagon.  Anyway that's what they did.  Then the land there was barren.  They wasn't very much land, and the soil was such that when they put the water on it and make ditches, there would come a flood and it would just completely take out everything."  (Interview of Fern Decker Ellis by Patricia K. Everett, May 17, 1994.)  [filename=FLCu004089]

"You know, with railroaders, you never to listen to one of them when they were by themselves because they fib.  They tell stories that are fibs, but when you get them all together, they kind of watch what they say."  (Interview of Alfred G. Chione, M.D. by Todd Ellison on 1996-11-21.  Dr. Chione donated much of Rio Grande Southern Railroad records and photographs that are at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College.) [filename=FLCu004487]

"The history of the [Durango Four Corners] area is tremendous and not only that, but tremendously interesting and the more you dig into it, the more interesting it becomes, and there's no end to it." (Statement by Arthur Wyatt, former state Representative and long-time resident of the San Juan Basin, 1970-02-26, in a television program co-hosted by Robert Delaney and Wyatt.)  [filename=FLCu004449]