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The Payton Family homestead in Minturn. Lionhead rock is at far upper right. Railroad tracks are visible behind the treeline.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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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"James P. Carrigan, who was appointed pastor of St. Stephen's in Glenwood Springs in 1910, began making monthly visits to celebrate Mass in Thomas Minturn's section house. With his encouragement, local Catholics formed St. Patrick's parish on September 13, 1913. Thanks to a $500 gift from the Catholic Extension Society and funds raised by parish suppers and plays, a church was constructed in the fall of 1925. Howard G. Bayers built the one-story,...
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Albert and Newell Buffehr, from left to right, each holding dogs at the Buffehr ranch. The ranch cabin is in the background. Jacob and Lydia Buffehr, their parents, purchased the ranch at the mouth of Buffehr Creek (which flows from north to south, entering Gore Creek at what is now West Vail) in about 1916. Jacob Buffehr had worked for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad out of Minturn for fifteen years when he decided to operate a dairy farm. He...
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Another Mallet locomotive at Minturn. Anatole Mallet, a Swiss engineer, patented the compound engine which was housed under one locomotive frame having six or more sets of axles. The rear set of driving wheels were fixed in the main frame of the locomotive. The extra pull generated made the locomotive useful in mountainous regions but slower on flat terrain.
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Continuing west on Highway 24 would take you to Minturn. Continuing east would take you to Gilman and Red Cliff. Photo taken by Tom Knight. Tom worked at Gilman as a watchman.
Verso: "Looking west down Eagle River. You can see I'm on top of the world. This shows the S curve on the O. to O. [Ocean to Ocean] Highway. We go to work tonight. Don't know what doing." [written by Tom Knight]
"Old highway on Battle Mountain" BJS
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Minturn's main street in May--June 1957. Minturn Mercantile store is on the right, Williams Motel on the left. The main street is packed and oiled dirt.
The photo is a good example of an ink caption bleeding through the photograph (examine upper left).
69) Lion Head Rock
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Photo postcard of Lion Head Rock above the town of Minturn in the early 1900s. Marked: Hoefler Shuler Photo Co., Denver, A9
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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.
71) Sophie Knight
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Actor Janice Tonz portraying Sophie Knight, wife of Thomas Knight, both prospectors in the Holy Cross Mining District.
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Bud and Buster Beck, left to right, standing at the Rod & Gun Club, Minturn, Colorado. The Rod & Gun Club became Maloit Park. Jeep in the background.
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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...
75) Minturn
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"Minturn"
Minturn, with Game Creek coming down at center ("Minturn Mile" ski run). Houses along river with work train in rail yard. Looking east from Hwy 24.
76) Boies' chickens
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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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Minturn Mercantile Company in 1957. Automobile parked in front of the store.
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People posing on the boardwalk in front of St. Elmo Mercantile Co., Minturn.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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John Kavanaugh during the summer of 1915, standing next to a fence in Minturn, Colorado. He is wearing overalls, gloves and a cap.
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Mabel, Carol "Bobbye," and Don Ginther posed in front of automobile. Donald Burdett Ginther was born Nov. 3, 1910, in Belvidere, Nebraska. He married Mabel Gehr on June 30, 1930. They lived in Minturn while Don worked as a miner at Gilman.
Carol Ginther married Russell Beck.
