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22. Trail ride
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A trail ride, possibly led by Edith Eidem, at Lucky G.J. Ranch.
Margaret Smith, Edith Eidem, and Delia Bridget O'Callaghan, three WW II ex-Wacs, bought the Ranch in February 1947 from Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stewart. They operated the 300-acre ranch as a dude ranch. There was a thirty-two room ranch house that they cleaned up and then they added cabins and worked fields.
Gene Godat worked as their hunting guide for tourists. Gene and Fawntella Godat...
23. Hockett Family
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Ten students standing in front of the Sweetwater School (Myrtie Hockett, teacher). Snow on the ground.
Back row: Warren Thatcher, James Boni, Mintferd Baer ?, Margaret Ross (Diamond Jack Alteris' sister-in-law), Duane Skiff, Mintfered Baer ?.
Front row: Wallace Thatcher, LaVonne Skiff, Jack Stewart, James Skiff.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Interior of the Sweetwater School classroom. Three children (LaVonne Skiff, Mintferd Baer and Roy Hanson) are standing at the blackboard behind the teacher's desk, facing empty desks. Bookcase is on the far left
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
26. Sweetwater Lake
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The students of Sweetwater School standing on the porch in front of the school building.
1st row: James Stephens, Buzz (Lester) Jackson, Tom Jackson.
2nd row: Reed Spears, Clarence Stephens, Robert Spears, Teacher Mrs. Spears, John Gannon, Harold Spears.
3rd row: May Gannon, Lila Rogers, Myrtie Stout.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared...
29. Buerger place
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"Doc" Warren Jacobson and Lislotte Anderson Jacobson standing in front of one of six homesteads on the Jacobson Ranch. This cabin was built by Ada Slusser, sister of Lucy Ellen Slusser Doll (married Frank Doll), in 1890. It was called the honeymoon cabin because, according to the late Myrtie Stephens, the girls from Sweetwater used to go there on their honeymoons (the Stephens girls, as well as others in the community).
It is one of six homesteads...
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1896: Deep Lake Resort belonging to Jake and Min Borah; hotel in background. Pioneer travelers on the Dotsero to Meeker wagon road rested at the hotel which was built on the lake in 1890. The hotel was destroyed by fire in 1906.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
32. David Hinman
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Marker near Sweetwater in the field that now belongs to James Stephens Jr. there is a marker for David Hinman, who was killed in a hunting accident in the late 1980s.
"Graves in the Dotsero Sweetwater area. Collected by Joan Brallier. Helped by Myrti Stephens and John Gannon. Barbara Steward gave the information on Dotsero graves." -- Mildred Toomer
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A postcard of the main ranch house at the Lucky GJ Ranch.
Margaret Smith, Edith Eidem, and Delia Bridget O'Callaghan, three WW II ex-Wacs, bought the Ranch in February 1947 from Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stewart. They operated the 300-acre ranch as a dude ranch. There was a thirty-two room ranch house that they cleaned up and then they added cabins and worked fields.
Gene Godat worked as their hunting guide for tourists. Gene and Fawntella Godat owned...