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MacDonald Knight standing on trailer attached to his jeep. He's looking at lumber in front of an abandoned cabin at Holy Cross City. There are wildflowers in the foreground. "The one picture of Don Knight's jeep shows some boards. Buster [Beck] said there was two piles of boards on this side of Francy Pass. Why & from where he does not know. SInce they are on this side of Fancy Pass he is sure they did not come from the saw mill at Cross Creek."...
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"The Frontier Historical Society Jeep caravan at the Little Annie Mine on July 27, 1969." -- verso The Little Annie Mine is in Little Annie Basin (backside of Aspen Mountain). "From 1882 through the 1940s, various silver-mining groups struggled there. ... In the 1960s and ’70s, two ski area developments in the basin failed. By the 1990s, landowners there cobbled together mining claims and threatened to build massive homes unless the county bought...
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Harry Mize standing next to a 1954 Jeep. There is an elk draped over the hood. Harry (1908-1980) retired as a Maintenance Foreman for the New Jersey Zinc Co. in 1973 and moved to Salida. He was an avid hunter/family guide. The Jeep is still running in Arizona. The photo is looking toward Highway 24. The white house was a New Jersey Zinc company house rented by Foster and Virginia Witthauer. Virginia was a nurse and Foster was head of the mill...
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Field House at Camp Hale with a troop truck convoy lined up in front. Two jeeps are parked facing the convoy. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Bud and Buster Beck, left to right, standing at the Rod & Gun Club, Minturn, Colorado. The Rod & Gun Club became Maloit Park. Jeep in the background.
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Duke [Leonard H.] Schultz pulling a Jeep out of a tight spot on his way to a fishing camp. He was married to Cleo Bell Christiansen.
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Mining camp for the Red Cliff contingent, Wilson Mesa, Utah, 1953. They were mining uranium. Two jeeps, several trucks, a tractor, tent and cookhouse are visible.