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View of the Chambers Ranch with houses, outbuildings and barn. The barn was moved to its present site at the Eagle Visitor Center in 1986 and donated to the Eagle County Historical Society. The Eagle River is in the background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
2) Loading Hay
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Gulling Offerson loading hay into barn on bench above Beaver Creek. A two horse team, left foreground, is being used while a team of mules is visible in the left background. The mules are pulling the cables that are lifting the load of hay to the top of the stack. The view is looking east with the Avon "gypsum cliffs" to the left.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Three cowboys in a corral at the Lloyd Ranch, working horses. Hay rick in the background
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Wilhelmina Schoop Ambos, her daughter-in-law Minnie (married to Leonard), and grandson, Jack (son of Minnie and Leonard), at the Black Mountain Ranch. Jack is seated on a horse and the ranch house is in the background.
Verso: "Happy days"
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Buchholz homestead on Buchholz Mesa. Nicholas is at the far left; Mary is wearing a hat and standing near the door. John, Mary Louise and Beulah Buchholz are also in the picture. There are mounted riders at far right and cattle at midground.
Buchholz Mesa was sold to E. M. Tabor and Nick and John opened a livery business in Eagle.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Lou Clark (Layman) with County Fair projects: registered bull, Cran-Clay Roland, and registered heifer, Bar-Gay Anne. The Clark ranch house is in the background.
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"The Martin Schomers ranch, as it looked in December of 1919. It was the twenty-fifth of April before this snow was all gone." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 263
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Haas Ranch at Sandstone Creek (Vail) with Frank Harnagle and Margie Haas bottle feeding lambs. Frank Harnagle was Frank Haas' cousin. Ranch house and chickens in the background.
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Charles, Chet, John and William (father) Eaton (left to right) at McCoy Creek Ranch. Each Eaton is holding the reins of a horse and is standing in front of a log barn.
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Martha Goodall, standing, is watching her daughter, Alice Goodall, bottle feed a fawn. They are standing in front of the first house built in Eagle, Colorado. There are other structures in the background. Two men are seated in a wagon at the far right. William F. Woods is on the left. Henry C. Goodall, at the far right, is holding snowshoes.
Alice was married in this house in 1884 to William Franklin Wood. She was the mother of Robert Woods....
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Brush Creek Valley, 1916. Two groups of buildings, fenced pasture and Brush Creek visible with Bellyache Mountain in the background.
12) Men and horse.
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Two men standing next to a horse. The man on the left has his arms crossed on his chest; the man on the right is holding the horse's bridle. All three are posed in front of a barn. Scrap lumber is visible and the barn door is open.
13) Ambos Homestead
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"No doubt, quite a number of ranchers still living will remember that Grandaddy of all winters, 1919-1920 when stockmen were forced to start feeding hay a month earlier than usual and only a very few had enough feed to see their stock through the winter and a late, late Spring. Several cattlemen of the McCoy area were out of hay before the first of April, when there was still from twelve to thirty inches of snow on the ground. Rather than seeing their...
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Mules corralled next to the mule barn at Camp Hale.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
15) Working cows
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Working cows on the old Frost Place, also the Schlutter Place (Pair o Dice Mesa). Faye Dice (named after Helen Faye Dice) sitting on cattle chute. Barns and corrals are now gone (2007).
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"Charley McCoy's Upper Place in 1930.The original log house was destroyed by fire in 1927 or 1928 and the frame house was built shortly afterwards. This picture shows some of Charley McCoy's top grade of cattle. Besides the cattle and the one saddle horse, at least seven men and boys are visible just to the left of the barn some of whom were probably members of the Dutch Laman family who were living on the ranch at that time." -- McCoy Memoirs p.108
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Interior of the Howe cabin, restored by Jack Oleson. Jack created the "stove" from actual stove parts and a wooden box.
A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
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1939: Cowboy riding a steer during rodeo, Eagle, Colorado. Additional riders in background. The Eagle County Court House, built in 1932, is visible; riding is being done on the West side of the Court House (in 2006, this is now a park).
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"The Hans Olesen place when owned by Schmidts; also the cover photo of the calendar." October 1976 in a calendar, Rural America, the Bi-Centennial Year, Copyright 1975, Time Piece Photography, Inc. Boulder, Colorado 80302, Photo Chrono Graphics; photographer for October Jay Simon $4
"1 1/2 story house, built in 1900 containing 8 rooms with four bedrooms and a bath. The first floor area has 968 square feet with the second floor area 242 square...
