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The Buchholz homestead on Buchholz Mesa. Nicholas is at the far left; Mary is wearing a hat and standing near the door. John, Mary Louise and Beulah Buchholz are also in the picture. There are mounted riders at far right and cattle at midground. Buchholz Mesa was sold to E. M. Tabor and Nick and John opened a livery business in Eagle. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Bud Bowen on horseback at Kent. There is a dog running behind them in the distance.
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Buddy (1 yr. old) and Kevin (2 yrs. old) Doll perched on Pedro, the horse for a photograph.
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"Building our highway" - caption from Edwards School Scrapbook, page 16. The scrapbook was completed as a youth citizens' league project between 1954-1955. This could be construction of Highway 6, the first major byway to cross Eagle County. A large excavator with one man in control awaits more digging, two other men with shovels are digging by hand. A horse team is visible at right, center, with a wagon behind them. The excavator is resting on...
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Building the Derby Mesa Road, circa 1923. Workers with skids and horse teams at right, waiting for the detonation to clear at left.
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"The shipping yards, located next to the Burns Post Office and within a stone's throw from the Colorado River, have been used since 1934." Heicher, Kathy. The Cattle Drive: Burns Hole cowboys mix tradition and technology. Photographer Mike Rawlings. Vail Trail, November 24, 1989, p.16-19.
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1939: Burns Stockyard, November 1939, loading cattle into cattle cars. (Denver & Rio Grande Railroad) Two cowboys on ramps loading cattle; one man on track siding, left midground; woman holding child standing in empty corral behind horses. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Burns Stockyards, October 1939, showing cattle in loading pens going up the ramp to rail cars on shipping day. Steam engine at left background. Four horses in foreground with dog. The yards were built in exchange for the right of way needed by the railroad to go through the Benton Land & Livestock Company property. It was a great help to local ranchers and, when the railroad no longer would ship cattle by rail, it caused hardship for the ranchers...
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Horses tethered at the stockyard pens. Heicher, Kathy. The Cattle Drive: Burns Hole cowboys mix tradition and technology. Photographer Mike Rawlings. Vail Trail, November 24, 1989, p.16-19.
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Buster Beck (L) and Bob (Charles Robert) Warren on horseback on Water Street, Red Cliff. "Twin houses" in right background. Fleming Lumber Company at upper left background. "Lou Brady was the last owner of the twin houses. He lived in one and was tearing down the other one for firewood. After he died, Alan Albert, school teacher, helped tear down the one Brady lived in and they found some money hidden in the wall."--Angela Beck
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Buster Beck and Virginia (Jimmie) Horan in front of the Beck house in Red Cliff. Jimmie is seated on Pal. Fleming Lumber's framing house is at right; Tib Montoya's house is in the background (it later burned down).
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"Butch Wellington driving old farm team. Only picture of D&RG Section House at Edwards." -- Esther Klatt
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Local rancher Byron McGinnis rounds up cattle on Bellyache during the Diamond S tour. A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
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"Cabin on former Ad Stifel Ranch in the Antelope section of McCoy." -- John Ambos caption [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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95) Cabins
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Caption reads "Cabins at Sweetwater Lake" although this may not match the actual location. (Leadville?) There are nine men in the photograph-- two are standing on either side of the main cabin at center with the door open. Both wagons are full.
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Caption: "Camp Tigiwon alt. 10,000 ft. Pilgrimage to the Nount of the Holy Cross. V. T. Brown photo, Denver, Colo." 47 "pilgrims," most on horseback, posing in front of the Camp Tigiwon post office. The Post office was established June 5, 1929 and discontinued September 30, 1942 [from Colorado Post Offices 1859-1989, by Bauer, Osment and Willard, 1990].
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Canon City and Cripple Creek Stage standing in front of the St. Cloud Office. Three teams of two horses are hitched to the stagecoach on which is sitting eight men. There are five men standing in front of the coach and one standing by the horses.
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Cara Gilbert, 1985-86 Rodeo Queen, in an official pose.
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Carl Gray of Eagle moving cattle below the Howe homestake cabin on Bellyache during the tour. A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
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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.