Fruita

William Pabor arrived in Western Colorado before the advent of irrigation, and the land presented a barren and desolate sight. But he saw something entirely different. �In the spring of 1884, lying on the bare floor of a log cabin on the site of what is now the town of Fruita, I watched the moonbeams play on the Roan Cliffs and across Pinon Mesa,� Pabor wrote. �The silence of centuries seemed resting upon the plain. . . . But visions of the possibilities of the future swept before me. I saw home