Two people standing at Fancy Pass in the snow.

Climbing Fancy Pass to the Holy Cross Mining District. From left: Harold Stoner, Buster Beck and MacDonald Knight. The Holy Cross District covered 100 square miles of the intervening country between the headwaters of Cross and Homestake Creeks. Gold Park and Holy Cross City were the major mining camps. Verso: "Big'un Stoner, Buster Beck, Don Knight climbing Fancy Pass 1939" "Harold Stoner was known by his Missouri Family as 'Big'un.' He had...