General Note: Part of the CWA Pioneer Interviews Collection. Consists of an interview of Charles Albert Yersin, an early-day resident of Kit Carson County, Colorado. Born in Switzerland in 1847, Yersin came to Missouri with his family in 1851, and later came to Colorado in 1888. Homesteading in Kit Carson County, Yersin established a small farm, and later became a teacher. He also became a Christian minister, and was for a time the only known minister in the county. Much of this interview deals with his memories of his initial trip to Colorado, as well as incidents involved in the lynching of L.R. Baker, who had shot and killed one member of a party attempting to cross his land thinking they were claim jumpers. The date of this incident is not given, although it appears to have happened shortly after Yersin and his family arrived in 1888.
A portion of this interview appears in Echoes from The Collection, S.1, Ep.4: Schools.
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