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Actor Madeline Moos portraying Fanny Collins, wife of Tom Collins, miner and community supporter.
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Howard G. Bayer was born at Lower Meaghers Grant, Nova Scotia, August 23, 1885. He was trained as an engineer and was at one point affiliated with the Stearns-Roger Company. He came to Eagle County in 1917, marrying Ethel Boies of Red Cliff in 1918. After a mining accident, he became a carpenter and decorator, living in Minturn. He was well-known as an active leader in the Boy Scouts and any activities involving children. He died in Glenwood...
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Abandoned Minturn Bus Line bus parked on the old road between Bells Camp and Red Cliff, October 1996. The Minturn Bus Line ran between Minturn and Gilman, taking workers to the Gilman mines. The Minturn Line was owned by Bert Winters.
"The bus line between Red Cliff and Gilman was a separate entity, for a long time owned by Mr. Neff and, eventually, by Ralph Henderson." -- Bud Beck
"Bud, Buster, our grandson, Conrad, and I walked the old road from...
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Mary Frances "Fannie" Evans Collins holding grandson, Ralph Bayer. Fannie Evans was three years old when she spent several days in Ft. Arnett. Red Cliff's response to the Meeker Massacre was to gather citizens in the fort, anticipating a local threat, which never materialized.
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The first Red Cliff High School reunion was held in 1977. This group is at a picnic in Maloit Park in Minturn on July 17, 1977, each having gone to school in Red Cliff.
From left to right, Lawrence Fear, Joe Fear, Louis Glieforst, Carl Glieforst and Bill Caruthers.
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Coleman truck parked in front of the Battle Mountain Trading Post, Minturn, Colorado, May 2004. The truck has antlers piled on the bed.
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Twenty-fifth anniversary photo of Ethel Boies and Howard G. Bayer. They were married June 20, 1918, settling in Minturn, Colorado. Howard was an engineer and carpenter; Ethel taught at Minturn High School.
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School Days 1945-46, photo of teacher, Sophie Hamrick Knight.
”She taught my daughter, Patricia, in kindergarten, Red Cliff. (First year we had kindergarten here.)”--Angela Beck
”Mrs. Knight began her teaching during a teacher shortage in World War II era. She went back to college and received her degree at Western State, then returned to Eagle County to teach. She has taught in the Minturn area for 16 years. Mrs. Knight plans to spend the...
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Ethel Boies Bayer's father, Brett Timothy Boies, ran an experimental farm in British Columbia. These are chickens from the farm, on a photo postcard.
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The Booze Brothers softball team from Red Cliff, Colorado, playing in Maloit Park (1980s)
Back, from left: Kenneth Beck, Joe Beck, Jerry Trujillo
Middle, from left: Ben Padilla, Richard Tafoya, Tommy Padilla, Henry Medina
Front, from left: Frank Padilla, Jamie [---], Tommy Medina, Lemuel Montoya, Mike Beck, Larry Medina
13) Coleman truck
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Coleman truck parked in front of the Battle Mountain Trading Post, Minturn, Colorado, January 2004.
"I remember that Walt Owen had an International two-ton truck with a Coleman front end. It was a County vehicle,... later turned into a wrecker. The tires on that Coleman truck are about what I thought they would be. Back in those days that was a pretty big tire; they were said to have cost $100.00 apiece and I believe that Gates was the only...
14) Bayer Children
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A studio photograph of Mary Frances, Garth [born in 1926], and Ralph Bayer [born in 1920]. The children's parents were Howard G. and Ethel Boies Bayer of Minturn.
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Wedding photo of Ethel Boies and Howard G. Bayer. They were married June 20, 1918, settling in Minturn, Colorado. Howard was an engineer and carpenter; Ethel taught at Minturn High School.
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Ella Warren Burnett, in uniform, graduation from nursing school, May 1947. Ella trained at St. Joseph's Hospital in Denver and St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction.
"To Uncle Tom & Aunt Fannie. 'Ella'"
