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161) Creating a road
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Photo labeled 281260; verso stamp 4400
A man driving a tractor is cutting a road through trees. Stacked logs are at left.
In 1927, Dr. Randall led Boy Scouts and Campfire Girls up Notch Mountain to see the cross, a trip considered to be the first "pilgrimage." In 1928, another pilgrimage took place and in 1929, President Hoover established the Mount of the Holy Cross Monument.
"All these pilgrimages continued to demonstrate the need for a better...
162) Lion Head Rock
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Photo postcard of Lion Head Rock above the town of Minturn in the early 1900s. Marked: Hoefler Shuler Photo Co., Denver, A9
163) Gold Rush of 1941
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MacDonald Knight and friends, prospecting in Gold Park.
Front" "H.C.City gold rush '41;" Verso: "shot in Gold Park"
164) Carlton Tunnel
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Entrance to the Carlton tunnel in 1932, in the snow.
The Busk-Ivanhoe Tunnel was built by the Busk Tunnel Railway Company for the Colorado Midland Railroad in 1891 as a replacement for the Hagerman Tunnel at a lower, more direct route. It connected Aspen and Leadville.
The tunnel was abandoned following Colorado Midland's 1897 bankruptcy and was converted to one-way auto traffic in 1922 as the Carlton Tunnel, a toll tunnel carrying then-State Highway...
165) Robin & Olive
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Robin C.[?] pulls Olive Gabelman in an old buggy at Fulford. The photograph is viewing southeast and may be reversed. Photo is dated July 1948.
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Camping at Chicago Ridge, Quinn Beck, Sam Robinson and Buster Beck are posed on the back bumper of a pickup truck, October 1994.
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Mount of the Holy Cross in the background with the plaque marking the boulder where William H. Jackson photographed his son, Clarence, and George Beam in 1893. That famous photo is part of the Western History Collection of the Denver Public Library [DPL WHJ-10213].
The plaque reads:
"Clarence Jackson was photographed on
this boulder in 1893 by his father WILLIAM
H. JACKSON, who took the very first
picture of the cross on August 23, 1873.
This...
168) Notch Mountain
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Caption: "Holy Cross Mt. lies behind the Notch. One trail goes this way, one this way."
A photo of Notch Mountain annotated by O. W. Randall, showing the ascents to the top. At the top, Mount of the Holy Cross can be seen.
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Corral and Ranger Station at Yeoman Park near Eagle, Colorado. Photo labeled: Yeoman R. Sta, lower right corner.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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MacDonald Knight on his way back to camp after being on furlough, 1942. The photo was taken at Loveland Pass.
172) Mill
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The mill building at Holy Cross City.
Gold Park and Holy Cross City were the major mining camps in the Holy Cross Mining District.
"Apparently, there were two mills at Holy Cross City. The first, located just below the town, on the west side of the road, was called simply the Holy Cross Mill. It was owned by the Gold Park Mining and Milling Co. which also maintained a similar installation down below. ... Both mills were connected by a direct 2...
173) Out to cut timber
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July 1957: Clarence Dubach riding out to cut timber. His horse, the aptly named "Red", is pulling him on a skid that will also carry back his load.
174) Buster Beck
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Buster Beck with a cant hook log roller, positioning cut and trimmed logs into a pile. A piece of lumber is being used as a wedge.
175) Holy Cross City
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Tom Doran (on left) of Eagle, Colorado, and Chuck Shaw of Minturn, Colorado, with pack horses at Holy Cross City. Six buildings and the remains of other structures are visible in the background.
"By 1881, Holy Cross City was, itself, a reality. In a meadow, 11,407 feet above sea level, were "'two rows of houses facing each other with other buildings wherever a level spot could be found.' ...Between 1881 and 1883, Holy Cross City could boast...
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Pete Mann using burros to pack ore out of the Glengarry Mine [standardized spelling from GNIS]. The Glengarry Mine (Holy Cross Mining District) is .76 mile from Holy Cross City and at an elevation of 11,414 ft. The mining season was short at this elevation.
Verso: "Pete Mann with Burro string packing ore from Glengary mine, Summer 1940, Missouri Pass Summit"
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Mayo Lanning exhibiting size of logs used in the "beaver dams at Gold Park (down the mountain from Gilman, Colorado)" [verso of photograph].
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"February, 1936. The Black Mountain Ranch when John Ambos and his mother were living there. It shows the 1925 burn on the northwest side of Black Mountain, caused by carelessness of sawmill operator Dick Webb whose mill was located at the foot of the mountain." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 244
An automobile at lower left is approaching the ranch; a horse harnessed to a sled is standing to the right of the automobile.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared...
