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261. Ed Watson
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Frank Perkins Grant sits on a lamb at the Van Horn property in 1926. It's possible that Frank Perkins Grant is Wayne Grant Perkins, the first son of Alda (Borah) Perkins, born on December 9, 1925.
"Frank Perkins Grant on the lambs back at Van Hornes. Brush Creek, Colo. Eight months." -- Alda Borah
265. Edward Jean Borah
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An account of auction ledger for the sale of the Borah ranch. A public auction was held on November 24, 1917. Many locals in the Brush Creek Valley and surrounding towns purchased items at the auction. Alfred Borah, along with his wife, Mary, and daughter, Alda, moved to Phoenix, Arizona following the public auction. James F. Shults served as the auctioneer. Later dates from the 1920s are included in the ledger from business dealings Alfred had in...
267. Borah ranch
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A view of the Borah ranch looking north toward Eagle and Castle Peak.
"I was born on this part of the land in 1896, lived in a 2 room log cabin. In 1902 we moved to the larger home, so nice, we were so happy, also more room of all kinds altho[ugh] father had many log farms, machine sheds, cow corral and farm three large corrals." -- Alda Borah
"I lived first in a two room log cabin at North edge of farm. My home ranch in Colo. Looking North...
268. Borah ranch pasture
269. Borah ranch
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A contour sketch map of the Eagle Vanadium Company's consolidated mines, located along Brush Creek. This map was created in August of 1915. Charles G. Walker, a mining engineer and surveyor, may have drawn the map. According to Alda Borah, Charles "Chas" G. Walker was in charge of surveying all the mines on Salt and Brush Creek.
271. Coffin Mountain
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The Lower Brush Creek Schoolhouse, taken at some point in the 1910s. The schoolhouse is still standing and is now the School House Ranch. The school was built across the road from the older Brush Creek School.
"The new school house on Brush Creek across highway from old one." -- Alda Borah
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A land patent given to Mary C. (Grant) Borah by the Land Office at Glenwood Springs. Dated August 8, 1890. This grant was for the "North half of the North East quarter and the East half of the North West quarter of Section twenty-five in Township five South of Range eighty-four West of the Sixth Principal Meridian in Colorado containing one hundred and sixty acres," and was signed J. M. Townsend, Recorder of the General Land Office.