Download or read book Grand Junction written by Alan J. Kania and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was on September 26, 1881, when settlers went to the junction of the Gunnison and Grand (the Colorado) Rivers to claim 640 acres, and in the semiarid confluence of the two rivers, a city developed and a college grew out of the seeds of a single-room school with a dirt floor. Original.