Pikes Peak Library District

August 22, 2008

Oliver Clibon

Filed under: General, Voices from the Depression Era in Colorado, All Pikes Peak Reads 2008 — ppld @ 3:34 pm

Oliver Clibon was born May 1, 1911, in Elbert, Colorado. His father, John Clibon, originally from Missouri, was a homesteader in Elbert County. After serving in World War II, Clibon spent 20 years as a wheat harvester on the plains of Colorado, Kansas and Texas, making his home in Elbert. Clibon discusses living through the Dustbowl on Colorado’s eastern plains.

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