The American Dream and the Ciruli Brothers:
The Beginning.

In the early 1900's Amadeo and Julia Ciruli immigrated to the United States from Schiavi, D'Abruzzo, Italy, a small town near the Adriatic Sea.

They went west, settling in Pueblo, Colorado, where they bought ten acres of farmland on a mesa south of the Arkansas River. And so Amadeo and Julia staked out their claim to the American Dream.

The Cirulis had four children. When the oldest, Charlie, turned nine, he was given total responsibility for farming five of the ten acres.

"You must make a profit," Amadeo insisted. And Charlie did.