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Shortly after they were married, Jack and Martha Sigler came out from Denver and homesteaded land in the Volcano area. Their first abode was a cellar or dug-out at an abandoned railroad construction camp, but later they buit this house north of Volcano, one section at a time. Like many other homesteaders, their lives were much too short to see their dreams fulfilled." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 304
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The first dwelling on the Kayser desert claim was a tent and it was 1909 or 1910 before this house was built by a Mr. Freeman for Joe Kayser. A number of transients lived in it before members of the Kayser family. Of those, Ralph occupied it the longest. It is presently the home of the Raymond Horn family." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.229
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63. Strubi house
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Strubi family dwelling in Burns built in 1953. Wire fence in foreground.
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Built to stand up under the rigorous winters of the high country, this is a 1970 photo of the big house that Dick Klumker built in 1934, but has been unoccupied since 1937." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 312
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"The ranch buildings on what later became the Black Mountain Ranch. When this picture was taken in 1935 [photo has both 1934 and 1936 written on it], it was a working ranch (with emphasis on work) and had about fifty acres under cultivation, the balance of the 1,100 acres was pasture and timberland. Pioneers named the hill in the background Sawmill Mountain. Until 1915 the hill was a paradise for grouse and to see fifty or sixty in a flock was...
66. Bill Gates place
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Bill Gates dwelling built in 1909 on Derby Mesa.
67. Sneve Ranch
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The William Johnson Ranch, formerly the Anthony Sneve Ranch on West Brush Creek. The patent on the ranch was established in 1911. The ranch was purchased by Edna Chambers in 1935. Chambers in turn sold the property to William S. and Nora Johnson in 1938. It is now the site for Sylvan Lake State Park. [A History of Sylvan Lake State Park, by Kathy Heicher]
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Lederhause dwelling on the Colorado River Road, built in 1905.
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J.T. (Terry) and Mamie Miller's cabin on Bellyache Mountain in Eagle County, Colorado. There are two automobiles in front of the cabin and people looking at the photographer.
70. Klumker ranch
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"Six miles due north of the Conger Mesa and five miles northeast of Volcano lies Long Park in the Routt National Forest. Here the Klumker family and a man named Blake took up 160 acre homesteads in 1912. This view of the Park in 1968 shows the Klumker House and near the road in the distance is the Blake cabin. The buildings to the right of the house have collapsed under the deep snows of the region." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 311
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"Just across Rock Creek Canyon from the Ebert place on Conger Mesa, Bert Hadley took up a 160 acre homestead and built this house on it in 1905. Prior to that year, he had married Huldah LaForce and they had spent a part of their honeymoon on the former Milby Frazer place at the head of Egeria Canyon. Bert, who was in poor health, did not live long enough to realize his dream of transforming the homestead into a cattle ranch. After his death, about...
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Bill Gates building constructed behind the main house in 1913 on Derby Mesa.
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Lou Clark (Layman), approximately 15 years old, on horse, Daisy, in front of the Clark house. The log house at the foot of Squaw Creek was the Clark home from late 1945 until 1953.
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The Lloyd Ranch house, possible during a 4th of July celebration. The band is waiting to play by the gazebo.
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Nine children seated on a log for a photograph, all residents on Bellyache Mountain.
76. McCoy lane
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"The McCoy lane looking west. This 1912 photo [says 1911 on verso of photo] shows the front part of the Hotel on the left, [on the right] the blacksmith shop, the big red barn and the front of the old log barn and beyond it, the bridge across Rock Creek. The big barn, approximately fifty by sixty feet in size, was of frame construction and built by C. H. McCoy in 1902. It had stalls for twenty horses and a loft that held ten tons of loose hay....
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The restored Brett Ranch house, mouth of Lake Creek, Edwards. The machinery shown in 1990.001.002 is located by the rock wall under the pine tree in this photo.
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Charles, Chet, John and William (father) Eaton (left to right) at McCoy Creek Ranch. Each Eaton is holding the reins of a horse and is standing in front of a log barn.
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Bertha McCain holding baby Grace, standing next to an unidentified woman. They are in the yard in front of a log house.
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"Bert Wolverton and Art Koonce were partners in this ranch located immediately north of Eagle in the vicinity of what is now the Interstate 70 interchange. The ranch was eventually sold to Ross Chambers. This view is looking east with Red Point in the background. The barn in the photograph has since been moved to Chambers Park in Eagle, where it serves as the Eagle County Historical Society Museum. The interstate highway now runs through what would...