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21) Minturn Store
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Wagon loading/unloading goods in front of the Minturn Store. Several children, women and men are on the boardwalk in front of the store. Tent with sign ("Photographs") in between the store and the house on the right.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Mining equipment on wagon being moved by horse teams; eight horses in front, two at rear of wagon. Inscription on back of original photo [held by Town of Red Cliff]: "Cripple Crick; picture owned by Will McCune, great-uncle of Mary Barber Albert, showing how large equipment was moved to remote mining areas such as Holy Cross City, etc. 78-2-20; 0388"
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
23) Mr. McDonald
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"Mac" McDonald and horse, Dixie, at Kent in 1918. Laundry is hanging on a line in right background.
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"The north and south bound stages meet at McCoy, shortly after the State Bridge was completed and opened to traffic. In spite of inclement weather at times, stages ran on a pretty tight schedule except during the spring breakup when roads were at their worst. At least there were no long tie-ups, as was the case with the railroads at times. The photo shows an armed guard standing beside one stage and no doubt one was necessary at times, but most...
25) Road crew
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The road crew that worked on the stage coach roads to keep them open. Horse teams are harnessed to scrapers.
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c.1890: Stage between Deep Lake and Glenwood Springs owned by Jake Borah to bring guests to deep Lake. Also ran between Eagle and Fulford. Two men and a dog stand behind the stage with two men in the box. Pulled by four horses. Stage is standing in front of a log cabin. Lettering on side of stage includes: "U.S.M."; "Eagle and Fulford."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Stage fare from Wolcott to McCoy was $2.00, to Yampa, $4.00 and to Steamboat, $7.00. Light baggage was carried free." -- McCoy Memoirs p.25
Photo labled both 1890 [verso] and 1900.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Victor Dump at the reins of the horse team and Otto Bergman sitting on lumber from the Fleming Lumber mill. The lumber is on a skid drawn by a horse team.
"The breast strap of the team is threaded through both rings, with the pole strap loop captured between them. This arrangement virtually eliminates the tendency for the end ring sleeve to be pulled off the end of the neckyoke. Simple, but good insurance." -- Stu Dykstra
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29) Winter Travel
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"Sometimes winter travel was very hard on both animals and humans." -- The Gates Genealogy
