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c.1930: Dad Wellington (in hat) standing at barbed wire fence. Mule hitched to wagon; reins hitched to fence post. Postmaster D. C. Thomas, Edwards, CO, sitting in wagon.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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c.1932: W. H. "Dad" Wellington shown in mail wagon, with his donkey, "Jack" standing next to the railroad crossing sign at Edwards. Lettuce shed is on the far left, with stacks of crates. Wellington hauled mail from the railroad to the Edwards Post Office twice a day for over 42 yrs.
"He has driven this route, carrying the mail for forty-four years, since May 13, 1895, without missing a single trip. He makes three each day. He calls his mule...
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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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The Parachute Store, Doll Bros. & Smith, in Parachute, Colorado. The store is decorated for the 4th of July. People are standing on the boardwalk. Train is at left. Zachariah Doll was the Doll brother most involved with the store.
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Franklin, Lucy and daughter Gretchen in a carriage at the Doll Brothers' ranch in the Gypsum Valley. The "Big Barn" is at the right in the picture.
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Dot (Mrs. Carl) Mayer sitting in a buggy with horse, "Pet," in the traces. Pet also pulled the milk wagon for years. The buggy's top is half down, showing the leather -upholstered seat back. Fencing visible in background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Looking north on Eagle Street in Red Cliff. Boardwalks visible in front of buildings. Horses ridden and pulling carriages. Chickens at lower right.
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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.
29) 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.]
30) 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.]
32) Ellis Bearden
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Ellis Bearden standing with woman and ox cart somewhere in rural France/Belgium .
33) 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.]
34) Everett Howard
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Everett Howard holding the reins of his horse team (Don and Chubb, as identified by Mamie Rodgers) while standing on timber sled. The sled is empty. Caption reads "after unloading logs at depot." Snow on the ground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Abandoned horse drawn farm equipment on the Ebert Ranch." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 260
The two-story Ebert ranch house is at far right background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Horse team and wagon in winter, hauling hay to cattle on the Schlutter Place, Brush Creek, Colorado. Ranch house in left background.
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The morning after the 1899 fire in Gilman, which destroyed approximately half of the town. The Fleck Clothing Store is at the left of the photo and is marked with an "X". People standing survey the damage.
Caption on verso: "Shots to stop fire broke windows across the street."
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Jack Nye and the Fleming Lumber Company team in front the Burbank house in Red. Cliff.
"The Frank Burbank home--an early day landmark in Red Cliff was burned to the ground Monday evening--the third disastrous fire in that Eagle County town in as many months.
The home was owned by a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Burbank, Eleanor McIlnay and her husband, Ira.
Mrs. McIlnay said there was no way to how how the blaze started....The Red Cliff firemen...
39) Frank Tracy
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"Frank Tracy riding in a carriage in marble, Colorado. The picture was taken with a camera that used coated glass plates." -- John Flynn
[submitted by John J. Flynn, Jr.]
40) 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...
