When Judge Cyrus “Buck” Allen retired at the end of February last year , he likely set a record that will never be broken. “Judge Buck,” as he’s known around town, sat on the Vail Municipal Court bench for 45 years. “Well, I’m not the most intimidating person in the world,” Allen told Tony Mauro in January of 2020 for the Vail Library’s Vail Valley Voices . You’ll have to ask either Allen or Walker if that defense worked; it’s not in Vail Valley Voices . Editor’s note #2: This is the eighth installment in our Trailblazers series highlighting the Vail Public Library’s Vail Valley Voices Collection of oral histories.