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Joe Dice on Sally, the mare, at the Half-Way barn up Brush Creek. Rex, the dog, is visible under the horse's belly. Joe, ten years old, rode past the barn on his way to school.
The Half-Way barn (at the entrance now in 2007 to Sylvan Park) was a stage stop for the Eagle to Fulford stage line. The barn was long with plenty of room and freight wagons could be parked. The teamsters switched horses here and, if necessary, could sleep in the hay.
43. Tom Wohler
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"Tom Wohler standing in front of his barn in 1912. The Wohler ranch had a first class set of ranch buildings and fences that Tom kept in good repair until a year or so before he passed away." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 131
"Fritz, Tom and Sarah Wohler came to Colorado from Pennsylvania in 1876 and settled at Leadville for 18 years. Tom was shift boss at the Johnny Mine and Sarah had a dress shop. They were married in Leadville in 1883.
In 1895 Tom and...
44. Dessie Beck
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Barbara Gleason (Pearch) with a friend and two dogs, sitting in a yard. "The home I remember myself was...a block behind the Methodist Church. The parking lot that they have at the Methodist Church was my folk's pasture. They kept a milk cow in there and when I got older, I had a horse [on Second Street right up from Howard]." -- Barbara Gleason Pearch: an Interview Conducted by Louise B. Walker Nov. 10, 1998, p.2
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Four men and a dog on the boardwalk in front of the Edwards Store and Post Office. Two of the men, seated on crates, are playing a board game. Appears to be spring or summer.
(Note on photo description: Burnison or Brooks)
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Ed Rodgers, Chester Tolbey and Bill Robertson leaving for a fishing trip on the Piney. The men are mounted on horses with a pack horse in front of Tolbey. A dog is visible in left midground, behind Rodgers. Photo was taken near Emmett Nottingham's place and looks southwest toward Wayne Creek (Beaver Creek). Bachelor Gulch is to the far right. The blacksmith shop is on the far right, on its original site.
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Albert and Newell Buffehr, from left to right, each holding dogs at the Buffehr ranch. The ranch cabin is in the background. Jacob and Lydia Buffehr, their parents, purchased the ranch at the mouth of Buffehr Creek (which flows from north to south, entering Gore Creek at what is now West Vail) in about 1916. Jacob Buffehr had worked for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad out of Minturn for fifteen years when he decided to operate a dairy farm. He...
53. Tom Deviney
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Lou Clark (Layman) and dog, Ring (wearing hat), in front of the Clark House, Edwards, Colorado. In the background is the hill across the Eagle River and Wilmor[e] Lake, where the "layers appear to be sideways." -- Lou Layman
"Highway signs added sometime in the 1980s or 1990s designate it as 'Wilmore' Lake, but in the 1940s the name came from a 'railroad house'--a small building near the railroad track that probably was used to store equipment that...