A family's joys and sorrows in the beautiful, remote Yampa River Canyon - The Mantle Ranch by Queeda Mantle Walker Queeda Mantle was born in 1933. When she was just two weeks old, due to a family tragedy her birth name was taken from her. After another year or so, she was given the name Queeda. She was the third child, having two older and, subsequently, two younger brothers. She has given the reader a view of a life in the Yampa Canyon. It is also the story of her father, orphaned at 13, he was a strong and stubborn man, who worked hard and made the ranch a success.