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Don Knight, seated in front of a tent, putting on his boots. Campfire with utensils in foreground. Caption on verso: "French Creek 1939"
"Access Gold Park, Holy Cross City on Forest Service Road 703. Holy Cross City via Gold Park is a one-way road. Or, from the Missouri Lake Trail head to French Creek, use Forest Service Road 727. The road to Holy Cross City used to be a good road. We drove up it all the time. Now, Buster [Beck] said, it is...
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Lower Brady Lake with pine trees in midground. Located in the Homestake-Fancy Pass area.
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Lower Homestake Lake, current site of Homestake Reservoir [2009].
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Jack Beck standing on logs at Benson's sawmill, Shrine Pass. Benson's barn in is the background. Bensons had a saw mill at Pando but after they moved their logging operation up Shrine Pass, they hauled their logs to Smith's Lumber Co. in Leadville.
Logging in that area was done at Shrine Pass, Tates Gulch, WIllow Creek, Lime Creek and Wearyman. Names of people involved in logging: Alfred Benson; Gus Benson (no relation); John Magunson (a blacksmith...
