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61) John L. Thomas
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John L. Thomas, in suit and tie.
"Around 1904, John and Mary Thomas, from Indian, homestead on the slopes above the present village site (Beaver Creek) with son Cliff and daughter Mabel. Two years later Charlie was born at the cabin, with a midwife helping. The homases lived in the valley until 1918, left for a year, and returned to take up ranching along the Eagle River."--p. 47 Beaver Creek: the first one hundred years, by June B. Simonton.
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John Kelley Edwards and his grandson, "little" Joe (Joseph Klyde) Edwards.
64) Judd Lyon house
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"This house was home to Mr. and Mrs. Judd Lyon and their daughter Florence for fifteen years and a number of other families for several years afterwards." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 280
"After the Lyon family left the ranch in Yarmony Park, several different people owned it. Among these later owners were Harry Groh, Roy Sherwood, and Buzz Mugrage. The Lyon ranch was dryland, like many others in the Park, and there was no chance of getting irrigation...
65) Kelley's place
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Kelley property up Homestake Rd., Forest Service Road 703. Ray Kelley had built a two story house and several other cabins between 1947 and his death in 1978. He had several mining claims in the area. The Forest Service dismantled the two story house after his death.
Ray Kelley walked into Red Cliff in the 1940s, pulling a red wagon, to do his grocery shopping.
This area is a popular picnic spot, with elk hunting in the big park above the cabin...
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Nine children seated on a log for a photograph, all residents on Bellyache Mountain.
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Caption: " Joe, Lois, Esther."
"The automobile may have been the only one in the families, and may have been the one my grandfather Miller drove from Kansas, or the one the Edwards traveled in when they abandoned their homes on Bellyache in 1929 and journeyed to Chandler, Arizona. Most travel was by horseback or horse and buggy (wagon?)." -- Esther Rogers, March 3, 2013.
68) Klumker ranch
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"Six miles due north of the Conger Mesa and five miles northeast of Volcano lies Long Park in the Routt National Forest. Here the Klumker family and a man named Blake took up 160 acre homesteads in 1912. This view of the Park in 1968 shows the Klumker House and near the road in the distance is the Blake cabin. The buildings to the right of the house have collapsed under the deep snows of the region." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 311
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69) Lyon Ranch
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Photo postcard of the Judd Lyon Ranch in Yarmony Park, about 1940. Lyon homesteaded in 1909, his closest neighbor being John F. Hudson, two and a half miles to the northeast. McCoy was eight miles to the southwest and had the closest store and post office.
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"Among the last to homestead on the Conger Mesa, Martin Schomers built the back part of this house in 1913, the same year that he and Pauline Johnson were married. They spent a part of their honeymoon here and during the ensuing years their three children were born. Others who lived here for short periods were Leonard and Maude Hudson and their two children; Helen and Darrell Ray; and Art and Helen Hudson and family. For many years, rats have been...
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Studio portrait photograph of Mary Elizabeth Shields Welsh, wife of John Welsh, mother of Sallie Welsh Hartman. She and her husband homesteaded the J over J Ranch north of Wolcott (now the 4 Eagle Ranch). The story of their early days establishing the ranch was written by their daughter, Sallie Welsh Hartman, and is titled "Early Days in Eagle County" [RARE 978.844 H3331].
72) Maxwell Place
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Photo postcard of the Maxwell place, taken by John Ambos. "Among the very early pioneers of the area were Elliott and Mary Maxwell who located on 160 acres of land at the confluence of the Grand River and Elk Creek, about four miles west of McCoy about 1896. The elevation there was about 6,500 feet, the lowest in the area where most vegetables and some varieties of hardy fruits could be grown." -- McCoy Memoirs p.155
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73) Merell Holland
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Merell Holland and horses. Merell Holland was Alta Edwards' husband. Alta married Malcolm T. Bush in 1925 in Garfield County. In 1928, she married Merell Holland. They had a daughter, Frances Holland (not born on Bellyache).
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Monica Barnes, holding deer carcass, with Boyd at left and Darrell at right. The dog is interested.
They're at the homestead cabin on Castle.
The rules of the homestead act required fence around the property and other improvements.
"The fence was built totally by Guy Barnes. Every post hole was dug by hand, every fence post was sawed or chopped from trees on the land and barbed wire (usually four strands) was strung on every fence post. Wooden...
76) Nogal House
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Charley Nogal house at far right; bridge to Wolcott and the upper valley before I-70 and Highway 6.
"Charley Nogal and his wife, Rosetta, arrived in 1885, claiming a homestead on what is now the Eagle River Villas housing complex, north of the Eagle River. Like most homesteaders, their first home was a modest cabin, reportedly built with logs taken from the remains of the first bridge over the river. They constructed their second home (pictured above)...
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Log homestead on the west side of Castle Peak, Eagle County. Owned by Palmroy (or Palmory...conflict in sources) and no longer in existence.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Payton Family homestead in Minturn. Lionhead rock is at far upper right. Railroad tracks are visible behind the treeline.
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Potato digging at the Hart Ranch in 1915 near Brush Creek in Eagle County, Colorado. Caption from verso, Alda Borah.
