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From left to right: Alvin Kilgore, Alfred Borah, and Ed Watson pose for a picture while on horseback. Taken near the Borah ranch on Brush Creek. Alfred is riding Billy/Billie, the family horse.
"Mr. [Ed] Watson was a big cattle man, wanted me to marry him, old enough to be my father." -- Alda Borah
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Alfred Borah sits in a buggy with his cousin, Adelaide Borah. Taken in 1900. Alfred's horses, Rex and Leta, may be pulling the buggy.
"Adelaide Borah from PA [Pennsylvania]. Mr. A. G. Borah Brush Creek, Colo. Rex and Letha?"
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Mary Borah stands over the family dog and cats: Dock, Coon, and Malty. Taken between 1911 and 1914.
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Mary Borah holds the reins of the family horse, Billy. Miss Blake is standing behind her on the left. The family dog, Dock is sitting in front of the steps leading the the front door of a house. Taken in 1911.
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Eileen, Edward, and Elaine Borah sit for a picture around 1946-47. Taken somewhere on East Brush Creek. The three were the children of Marvin Borah.
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Edward Jean Borah, the son of Marvin Borah, sits on a rock near a picnic table. Taken somewhere on East Brush Creek.
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An account of auction ledger for the sale of the Borah ranch. A public auction was held on November 24, 1917. Many locals in the Brush Creek Valley and surrounding towns purchased items at the auction. Alfred Borah, along with his wife, Mary, and daughter, Alda, moved to Phoenix, Arizona following the public auction. James F. Shults served as the auctioneer. Later dates from the 1920s are included in the ledger from business dealings Alfred had in...
28) Borah ranch
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A view of the Borah ranch looking north toward Eagle and Castle Peak.
"I was born on this part of the land in 1896, lived in a 2 room log cabin. In 1902 we moved to the larger home, so nice, we were so happy, also more room of all kinds altho[ugh] father had many log farms, machine sheds, cow corral and farm three large corrals." -- Alda Borah
"I lived first in a two room log cabin at North edge of farm. My home ranch in Colo. Looking North...
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"Brush Creek. The fence was north boundry [boundary] line to our 500 ac[re] farm. The Old Familiar Hills where my childhood days were spent, the old pasture and mts [mountains] I climbed cedar trees and called or barked to coyotes across the Valley." -- Alda Borah
30) Borah ranch
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Buildings at the Borah ranch, taken in 1916.
"Granary, Cow & horse Stable, Chicken house, Barn, Cow Barn." -- Alda Borah
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A contour sketch map of the Eagle Vanadium Company's consolidated mines, located along Brush Creek. This map was created in August of 1915. Charles G. Walker, a mining engineer and surveyor, may have drawn the map. According to Alda Borah, Charles "Chas" G. Walker was in charge of surveying all the mines on Salt and Brush Creek.
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A land patent given to Mary C. (Grant) Borah by the Land Office at Glenwood Springs. Dated August 8, 1890. This grant was for the "North half of the North East quarter and the East half of the North West quarter of Section twenty-five in Township five South of Range eighty-four West of the Sixth Principal Meridian in Colorado containing one hundred and sixty acres," and was signed J. M. Townsend, Recorder of the General Land Office.
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Mary Carolan sits with an infant Alda Borah in 1898. Alda is reaching for an egg basket. Mary Carolan was a neighbor of the Borahs on Brush Creek.
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A group threshes oats at the Borah ranch. The thresher is a Gaar Scott & Co. model. Alfred Borah is pictured second from the right.
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A team of horses is hitched to a wagon. A threshing machine is visible behind the wagon. Taken at the Borah ranch on Brush Creek.
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A warranty deed, given by Mary Borah to Alfred Borah, dated March 16, 1910. The deed signed over the Borah ranch property from Mary to Alfred. The land had been in Mary's name since August 8, 1890, when the Borahs purchased the property.
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From left to right: Alda Borah, Mary Borah, and George Guenon pick strawberries in a field near the old Borah log cabin.
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Nannie King (left) and Alda Borah saw a cedar log at the Borah ranch in 1915.
"1915. Working very hard. Nannie King and Alda Borah at old home. That was a cedar log." -- Alda Borah
39) Sawing
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Mary and Alfred Borah saw a cedar log at the Borah ranch around 1914 or 1915.
"Mother and Daddy Borah at wood pile, 1914" -- Alda Borah
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A journal written by Alfred Borah. Borah was an early settler to the Brush Creek Valley. He was a rancher and would sometimes lead hunting and fishing parties with his brother, Jake Borah. The years covered in this journal are from September 1886 to August 1889. Some events covered in this journal include Borah breaking his leg in a wagon accident on the way to Red Cliff on November 9, 1886, and Borah's marriage to Mary Grant on April 16, 1889.
