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Monica Barnes holding baby Boyd in the sunshine. "The homestead cabin was built on a hill. ... Water for the cabin came from a spring located up a hill from the cabin. Water for drinking, household use, baths and doing laundry was carried by bucket from the spring. Clothes were washed on a wash board. Water for doing laundry was heated on the wood burning stove and then carried to the tubs used for washing as needed. There was no electircity...
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Monica Heeren Barnes holding son, Boyd Barnes, born July 5, 1920. They are in the cabin door on Castle, the original homestead. She was born in 1899 in Whiting, Iowa. She was helping her cousin on a ranch in South Dakota when she met Guy T. Barnes, working as a herdsman. They married and moved to Eagle, Colorado, where Mr. Barnes was employed by Andrew Christiansen. "While living in a cabin owned by Mr. Christainsen, Guy and Monica Barnes began...
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Guy Barnes sawing a log. Darrell Barnes is seated on the log; Boyd Barnes is helping at the other end. "Heat for the cabin was furnished by a black four-legged stove which burned wood for fuel. The wood was either sawed or chopped with an ax." -- Homestead Days in Colorado p.1
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Nora and William Johnson seated with their children: Dorris, Jesse, and Ray. Photograph is dated 1908.
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George "Doc" and Frances Yost (Bucar) stand with their son, a small George Nelson "Nels" Yost off the edge of the sidewalk. There is a building and fenceline in the background.
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Alexander & Leah Allen sit together in front of a row of men in suits. The photograph is dated circa 1903.
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Lorraine and Virginia Essick pose together in front of shrubs and trees. The girls are wearing identical hats, dresses, and shoes.
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A baby (Bob Larsen?) gets some assistance from a woman with standing.
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Hans puts his arm around his wife, Hester, for a picture. A car can be seen to the left of Hans in the background, with mountains and trees.
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Benjamin Hart was an Eagle County pioneer, arriving to Red Cliff as a child with his family in 1886. The Hart family were miners and owned, worked, and operated many productive mines near the Battle Mountain area. He married Jennie May Bryant in 1897 and the couple had three children. He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Red Cliff.