General Note: Part of the CWA Pioneer Interviews Collection. Consists of a biographical sketch of Peter Guillet, an early day resident of Cortez, Colorado. Born in Missouri in 1855, Guillet's family were slaveholders and fled to Brazil during the Civil War in an attempt to establish a coffee plantation. Finding the climate unhealthy, they came back to the United States in 1866. As a young man he went to California, and worked for a time as a streetcar conductor in San Francisco. In 1882 he came to Colorado, where he and his brother Herman operated a trading post near Durango. In 1890 he came to Cortez with his brother and the two operated a flour mill for many years.
Web Location: https://www.historycolorado.org/oral-histories