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Bob holding his granddaughter, Sophia on her first birthday. The bolo draped over her arm was given to him by Bailey, the Ute cowboy.
Bob Rosenbaum has been at Arrowhead for quite some time, so I asked him to tell people a little about himself and why he chose to live at Arrowhead, here is what he said:
My mother and her people are from Colorado so I've been visiting since I was six months old. My 2 younger brothers and I always wanted to return to Colorado and they made it long before I did. I'm the oldest and slowest (in more ways than one). When I was able to buy, I wanted true alpine land with year round access not more than an hour away from my brother that runs a hog farm near Olathe. And that I could afford. Hence Arrowhead.
I bought in December 1991, camped on my Columbine property that summer and began building. The cabin was functional by September 1993. I was living in Austin, Texas at the time but I made it up here 6 times a year -- 3 times in the summer and 3 times in the winter. Moved in permanently on Feb. 1, 1999.
At Arrowhead I served as Fire Chief for 5 years and I am currently on the board of the Fire Protection District and am the Forest Manager.
I have been at various times in my checkered past a construction laborer, a university professor, a roofer, the owner of a music bar, a housepainter, a political speech writer (my last client got retired to private life by the Texas electorate which allowed me to move to Arrowhead permanently with a clear conscience), and a free lance writer. In the fall of 1999, I began teaching history and related courses at the Montrose campus of Mesa State College. I have also written two detective novels set in our general area. The second -- The Bank Job: One Thing Leads To Another -- has just been published and is available from me or the Inn, among other outlets. The first -- The Raid: More Than A Body Ought To Bear -- will be republished in the near future. (How's that for shameless commercial promotion?)
Beware: Asking me about my grandchildren will get me talking nonstop. I'll be even more obnoxious than when Bill Misare is picking and singing.
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