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Horses pulling the Continental Oil Co. wagon during a 4th of July parade.
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The John J. Ambos homestead and cabin.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Photo postcard of the Black Mountain Ranch (1960s), showing the lake and a wagon.
Verso reads: "Black Mountain Ranch, McCoy, Colorado 80463, Phone: Wolcott (303) 926-2300. September view of lake and mountains from front porch of lodge. Open year round. Excellent fishing, hunting, riding, snowmobiling in season. New cabins, good food and fun for the entire family."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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A pregnant Blanche Wyatt Kavanaugh leans against a building. She is wearing a coat open over a dress. Various ranch buildings are in the background. A wagon with hay is at midground, pitchfork leaning against the side.
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"Butch Wellington driving old farm team. Only picture of D&RG Section House at Edwards." -- Esther Klatt
6) Camping
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A camping trip with buckboard and tent. Dessie is in white at the right; Earl is fence sitting at far left. Another couple is with them and there's a buckboard in the center of the scene.
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The Castle Peak Dairy delivery wagon making the rounds. There is a shaft bell on the wagon shaft, probably to let customers know the wagon was close. This particular wagon now resides in the Eagle County Historical Society Museum.
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The restored Conestoga wagon, ca. 1825, at Diamond Star Ranch, Eagle, on July 1, 2010. Jack Oleson completed the two-year restoration in 1988.
"Wagon, ho!", by Kathy Heicher. Eagle Valley Enterprise, July 31, 2008, p.1
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Dick & Queen, the Larsen horses, ready to pull a wagon. There are trees in the background and objects in the wagon.
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Earl Beck and the dog driving a wagon with a two-horse team along an unpaved road. Possibly related to 2012.020.010.
11) Early Gypsum
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Early Gypsum where tents provided original services: hotel, stores, saloon, restaurant. Meals at the Eagle Hotel were 35 cents, a bed was 25 cents. All of these services were located across from the train depot. The location is close to present day Railroad Ave. and Second Street.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
12) East of Avon
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Horse drawn wagon with two passengers on road east of the entrance to Beaver Creek at Avon (Stone's Ranch). Stone's Ranch later became the Agriculture Experiment Station for the State College...State Farm. The road became U.S. Highway 6.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Ed Erickson, left, and Henry Ulin in a wagon drawn by a team of horses. They are standing outside a farmhouse in Gypsum Creek.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
14) Everett Howard
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Everett Howard on horseback with another horse to Everett's left. There is a wagon behind the horses. They are standing in front of John Howard's house where Everett's mother is standing on the porch. There is a ladder leading to a sleeping loft visible to the left.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
15) Freighters
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"A train of freight wagons like these were a common sight on the road between Wolcott and Routt County points, before the advent of the Moffatt Road. By traveling together freighters could lend assistance to one another in case of an equipment breakdown, encountering a mudhole or a steep grade, of which there were many. This photo was taken about a mile north west of McCoy, by A. B. Noyce of Steamboat Springs in the spring of 1903. The three freighters...
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The George Harris Ranch house in Yarmony Park in 1920. George married Julia Koski in 1915 and they filed on a 320 acre homestead in the southeast corner of Yarmony Park in 1916. "Julia's half brother and sisters, Frank, Sophia and Mary of Denver spent part of every year with them. Mary attended Yarmony School for several years in the early 1920's." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.290
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]...
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Martha Goodall, standing, is watching her daughter, Alice Goodall, bottle feed a fawn. They are standing in front of the first house built in Eagle, Colorado. There are other structures in the background. Two men are seated in a wagon at the far right. William F. Woods is on the left. Henry C. Goodall, at the far right, is holding snowshoes.
Alice was married in this house in 1884 to William Franklin Wood. She was the mother of Robert Woods....
18) Groh Ranch
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"Pioneers Mary and Frank Groh on their still unimproved ranch on Rock Creek, below McCoy [1/4 mile south] in [May] 1891. The man to the right of Mr. Groh is unidentified but the man doing the driving is Sam Elliott." -- McCoy Memoirs p.121
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Looking south down First Street toward Eagle Street in Gypsum circa 1905. The Travelers' Hotel is the second building from the left. There is a boardwalk between buildings.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
20) Hauling potatoes
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"Ammi Hoyt on his way to a railroad siding with a load of potatoes for shipment to market. Until 1925 most potatoes were still being hauled by horse drawn wagons, but shortly afterwards hauling was done by trucks." -- McCoy Memoirs p.199
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
