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Alexander Macdonell on horse. His family in Scotland called him Ackie or Ack; in Eagle, he was referred to as Alec. Alec was first employed on the Frank Doll ranch in Gypsum Valley. Then he leased land on the George Wilkinson ranch on Brush Creek, south of Eagle. After World War I and his marriage to Sadie Figgins, he returned to Eagle and moved to the Sproule ranch on Brush Creek. In 1923, he bought land from Charles Mayer and established his...
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"A group at the Leonard Hudson Ranch in Yarmony Park in 1919. Mrs. Eleanor Hudson, Mrs. Homer Cornwall, Denny Cornwall, Stanley Mulnix and Ammi Hoyt. Cornwall, a Rio Grande locomotive engineer was killed at Eagle in 1944 awhen his engine derailed and wrecked." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 285
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Austin Offerson and a "Dude" from Pennsylvania, mounted on horses. They are standing on a dirt road next to the fenced yard at the Offerson place. There appears to be a chicken in the lower right foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Clyde Lloyd in a corral at the ranch. Horses are in the background. Unidentified man standing at left.
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Clyde Lloyd on far left with three cowboys at the Lloyd Ranch; cattle are behind the riders.
Stamp on back of photo: Quality Photo Finishing Ping's Service Station Eagle, Colorado
8) Cyrus Dice
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Cyrus Dice, at right, and an unidentified man riding horseback at Brush Creek. Cyrus Dice ranched on Brush Creek for many years, moving to Eagle when he retired. He was married to Anna Norman until her death in 1949, and was then married to Imogene Lewis in 1957.
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Ellis Miller, half-brother to Emma Newby Edwards, seated on a horse with his nephew, Joseph Klyde Edwards riding in front. The family cabins are in the background.
10) Emma Mae Newby
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Emma Mae Newby, Esther Edwards Rogers' mother, on horseback, Bellyache Mountain. Emma Newby was Joseph T. (Tera aka Terry) Miller's stepdaughter. Her father died when she was 5.
Caption: "She was sure going high and crooked."
"I am not sure of the dates my family came to Eagle, but checking online homestead and census records, I found the Edwards family in the 1910 census in Colorado Springs and in 1919 to 1922 in Eagle County homestead records.
I...
11) Emma Mae Newby
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Emma Mae Newby on horseback. Snow on Bellyache Mountain. Emma taught school at the little log school house on Bellache.
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Emma Mae Newby in riding clothes, standing in front of an outbuilding on Bellyache.
"The Millers were 'city folks.' My grandfather [Joseph T. Miller] was the postmaster in the town of Sublette, Kansas. He had a college education and had been a Lutheran minister. (I can't imagine why he would leave all that and take his family to live in a log cabin on a remote Colorado mountain to plant lettuce and potatoes! I never learned what his motivation was.)...
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Emma Newby Edwards and Alta Edwards [Bush Holland], Emma's sister-in-law, waiting for a race to start. Both women are on horseback, Emma on Lady, Alta on Pinto.
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Mrs. Frances E. (Welsh) Watson at the Hartman Ranch. Frances married George W. Watson in 1906. They managed the Beef and Pierce Cattle Co. in Maybelle, Colo., and the American Cattle Co. They ranched in Eagle County for 20 years until 1938.
Sally Welsh Hartman, Frances' sister, married Charles L. Hartman in Wolcott in 1909 and they ranched there until 1934. The Welsh family moved to Eagle County at Wolcott in 1883.
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Frank [Hiram Frank] Doll, son of Franklin and Lucy Doll, mounted on one of the Doll horses. He is wearing a suit and tie.
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The Haas Ranch at Sandstone Creek (Vail) with Frank Haas (left) and Jim Fanning on horseback. The cabin in the background was rented to William Gould.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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From left to right, George, Marg and Ethel Mary Macdonell on horseback, standing in a corral.
18) Gerard Group
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Three men drive cattle down a dirt road. On the far right is Keith Gerard with a stray calf in front of him.
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The original ranch house on the Hans Oleson/Schmidt Ranch in Gypsum. It's still on the ranch [2013].
Lottie Schmidt, Glen Schmidt's mother, is riding Hunter. Glen's niece, Donna, is riding on Polly at center. Kathy has dismounted and is holding reins for Pommers.
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From left, Heine Bond, Mort Doll and Kevin Doll on horseback with corrals behind them.
