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Whitey, the dog, in the snow in front of the Beck garage in Red Cliff, February 1969, obviously a good snow year. A Scout International is parked next to Whitey.
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Christine Fear in her cap and gown, displaying her diploma from Red Cliff High School, 1957. She is standing in the living room of the Fear house.
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Returning to Gilman for a tour on July 26, 1997. Ellie (Elinora Williams) Beck [Mrs. Theodore] and Carol (Ginther) Beck [Mrs. Russell] chatting.
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A panoramic photograph taken from the Beck family yard, waiting for the last Union Pacific train to travel through Red Cliff. The tracks are visible with the Pine St. viaduct at far left. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church is right of the viaduct. "Union Pacific has pulled the last of its cross-country freight trains from the Tennessee Pass route, which averaged 12 trains a day through Eagle County. ... Union Pacific, as a part of its acquisition...
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Theodore "Bud" Beck on leave from the Army, October 1944, standing in the Beck's yard. The house in the background burned down. Tib Montoya was living in it at the time.
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High school graduation photograph of Bruce Beck, 1946. Bruce was killed in action in Korea on Sept. 23, 1951, on Heartbreak Ridge.
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Earl Beck, on left, and Ken Slevensky, getting ready for a parade in Red Cliff with burros Rochester and Spencer. Rochester and Spencer belonged to Bob and Ilene Warren, neighbors of Buster and Angela Beck.
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Bud Beck with sunglasses in hand, standing next to a 1941 Ford. There is snow on the ground.
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Joe and Joanna fear at the home Mass in celebration of their 42nd wedding anniversary. Joanna is cutting the cake. Eagle Valley Enterprise, July 3, 1969: "Father Thomas Stone offered the first home Mass in Red Cliff on June 27. This beautiful Mass was offered in honor of the forty-second wedding anniversary for Joe and Johanna Fear. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Joe Fear and five children of Buena Vista; Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Fear and...
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Looking from the Fleming lumberyard at left, down to the Beck house below, which is on fire. A crowd of onlookers is gathered while a train passes in the background. The fire burned the roof and second story.
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Floyd and Eleanor Beck standing in front of a house.
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Kelley property up Homestake Rd., Forest Service Road 703. Ray Kelley had built a two story house and several other cabins between 1947 and his death in 1978. He had several mining claims in the area. The Forest Service dismantled the two story house after his death. Ray Kelley walked into Red Cliff in the 1940s, pulling a red wagon, to do his grocery shopping. This area is a popular picnic spot, with elk hunting in the big park above the cabin...
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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...
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Jolly family cabin on the Flat Tops (at the head of Grizzly Creek) during a fishing trip in 1950. Sod roof on the cabin. Buster Beck, Frank Robinson and Chuck Colby participated.

115. Rileys

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Hugh Riley, Fr. Leberer, and Margaret Riley, holding baby, Anthony Beck, outside St. Patrick's Church, Minturn, Colorado, 1957, following Anthony's baptism.
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Distant view of the Peterson Creek tramway, used to transport lumber from the Peterson Creek sawmill to the railroad at the bottom of the Eagle River Canyon. The picture was taken from the Champion Mine at Bell's Camp. The steep terrain is testimony to the difficulty in logging in this area.
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Joe Fear, brother of Angela Fear Beck, with his children standing on a skid tractor at the upper Wearyman sawmill area.
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Earl (Ira Earl) Beck standing with his sister, Sattie Beck, family dog between them. This is probably in Salida, Colorado. The Beck family moved to Salida from Baliot, Iowa, in 1908, and then to Red Cliff in 1921
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Horse used by loggers to pull logs out of the standing timber.
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Bob McDougal fishing at Fancy Lake.