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Studio portrait photograph of Mary Elizabeth Shields Welsh, wife of John Welsh, mother of Sallie Welsh Hartman. She and her husband homesteaded the J over J Ranch north of Wolcott (now the 4 Eagle Ranch). The story of their early days establishing the ranch was written by their daughter, Sallie Welsh Hartman, and is titled "Early Days in Eagle County" [RARE 978.844 H3331].
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A studio portrait of the Schrupp family taken in Golden, Colorado, 1901. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Schrupp and family of six: Carl, Louise, Edward, Lena, Emma and Minnie.
"Ed Schrupp,his wife, Philomene and their six children came from Golden where he had been employed by Coors Brewery. He had filed on a homestead on the extreme south end of Conger Mesa.... Mr. Schrupp built a cabin on his own homestead but it wasn't occupied until 1905. The Schrupp children...
3) Ben Bolt
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A portrait of Ben Bolt of Minturn, Colorado. The namesake for Bolt's Lake in Minturn, Bolt was an early homesteader in the Minturn/Avon area.
