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Bill Heicher telling Jake Borah stories during the Gypsum Cemetery Tour July 16, 2011. The tour was sponsored by the Town of Gypsum in celebration of Gypsum's Centennial, held July 9-17, 2011. The Porchlight Players, a local drama group, portrayed interesting citizens of the town buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Jacob "Jake" Borah was born April 13, 1847, and died July 19, 1929. He came to Gypsum in 1875 with his brother, Al, and became internationally...
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Meeting between ranchers and the Forest Service held at the CCC Camp, Yeoman Park, in the 1930s. Adrian "Abe" Reynolds, founder of the Eagle Valley Enterprise is wearing the dark suit and standing in the back row.
Back row: 7th from left Adrian Reynolds (father of Marilla McCain); 8th Ellery Burford, sheep rancher; 9th L. J. Borah, Gypsum Creek rancher and guide
Front row: 2d from left Clyde Schlegel, McCoy rancher; 3rd Cyrus Dice, rancher; 4th...
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Gypsum Grade School students lined up for school photograph, prior to 1910. Some of them are identified by number:
[smaller numbers] 1. Art Stremme; 2. Iva Doll Slaughter; 3. Iva Sham Dodo; 4. Fritz Borah
[larger numbers] 1. Ellen McHatten; 2. Elizabeth Quinlan; 3. Viola Hines 4. Mrs. Morrison, teacher;
5. L.J. Borah; 6. Aden Moser; 7. Pearl Chatfield; 8. Julia Steyer; 9. Lottie Schliff; 10. Edith Grundel;
11. Riene Chatfield; 12 Bill Stremme;...
4) Jake Borah
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Jake Borah in camp, blowing a hunting horn while dogs bay around him.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Min Borah and five hounds belonging to Jake Borah. Min is holding the collar of one dog while standing in a campsite. Two tents are visible in the left background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Min Hockett Borah, in dress and hat, standing on the porch of her log house at Deep Lake.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Formal photograph of Myrtle Staup Borah, taken in a parlor with a piano. Myrtle married L. J. Borah (son of Jake Borah) on Dec. 27, 1912. She died in San Bernardino, California, in March 1955.
8) Pack trip
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Pack trip to the Flat Tops, close to Trappers Lake. Jake Borah is the outfitter. Man on left is the cook (Nogal?), showing antlers. Tents in background with men seated and standing facing the camera. Hunting dogs and rifles visible in mid-ground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Threshing crew on the Borah Ranch, Eagle, 1914. Man on top feeding the thresher; chaff blown out; men bagging at right.
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[Information taken from "The Margaret A. Downing Branch of the Lauffer Family," prepared by Blanche Tracy Kyes in June 1989, and provided by John Flynn.]
Ma: Margaret A. Lauffer, married on Sept. 20, 1872, to James Madison Downing in Guthrie County, Iowa.
Pa: James "Jim" Madison Downing, born in Cedar County, Iowa, and died March 21, 1937, in Marble, Colorado. "Jim Downing, considered to be one of the 'most fearless' bear hunters in the Rockies."...
