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A family gathering at the J.W. Edwards' house, probably after Joe and Emma's wedding. Left to right: John K. and Ella Casteel Edwards, Granda (Mamie) Miller; skip 4 popel; Emma and Joe Edwards; Nick Edwards (Joe's brother); boy's sitting, Ellis and Karlton Miller.
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The John J. Ambos homestead and cabin.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Bill Babcock homestead cabin, built in 1912, Yarmony Park.
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"Yarmony Park, 1968. The Babcock sisters pay a visit to the old homestead they abandoned in 1924. Edith, Elizabeth and Ila pose with the cabin and Yarmony Mountain for a background." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 295
Verso of photograph: Edith Babcock Wood, Ila Babcock Barker, Elizabeth Babcock Barker.
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The original Bailey homestead house with the new addition on the front.
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"The Baker homestead cabin six miles west of McCoy, abandoned many years ago, was a home to Carl and Bertha Baker and their family of four boys and two girls for a number of years." -- McCoy Memoirs p.178
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"The Butler Family in 1912. The year they arrived on the Conger Mesa and made their home on what is presently the Black Mountain Ranch. Here are Helen, Ben, Katherine and Roger." -- McCoy Memoirs p.266
Katherine "Kate" Johannbroer Butler inherited the ranch from her mother, Helene Johannbroer, in 1911. In 1920, Kate sold the ranch to John Ambos, Jr.
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The Gates family has traced their genealogy back 6 generations beginning in Europe. This short family history is of Bert & Nona Gates, 5th generation, and their ranching and homesteading experiences in the Eagle River Valley. The information used in this was compiled by Lemley Gates.
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"Just across Rock Creek Canyon from the Ebert place on Conger Mesa, Bert Hadley took up a 160 acre homestead and built this house on it in 1905. Prior to that year, he had married Huldah LaForce and they had spent a part of their honeymoon on the former Milby Frazer place at the head of Egeria Canyon. Bert, who was in poor health, did not live long enough to realize his dream of transforming the homestead into a cattle ranch. After his death, about...
11) Bob Cowden
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Bob Cowden, whose parents homesteaded on Bellyache, assisted with the tour of the Diamond S historical sites. The original Cowden cabin was rebuilt by Jack Oleson in 2009.
A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
12) Booco Ranch
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"Members of the Booco family grouped by their cabins on Alkali Creek near Wolcott about 1920. From left to right: Isaac Booco, Cecil Terrell Playford and daughter, Grandmother Margaret Booco, Margaret Terrell, Mrs. Mary Booco, Jack, Billy, Gordon, Ben and Gern Booco." -- McCoy Memoirs p.185
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
13) Brett homestead
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Brett Homestead as it looked in October 1997. (Located near Edwards, Colorado)
14) Brett homestead
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Brett Homestead as it looked in October 1997. (Located near Edwards, Colorado)
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"Brush Creek Valley, Township 5 South, Range 84 West of the 6th Principal Meridian, the area at hte mouth of Breek Creek between the Eagle River and the railroad tracks and west of Brush Creek. Ditch is Lower Rule, Priority #137, Spring in 1884 by H.E. Rule. The ditches are located by right bank or left bank and this is determined by facing downstream. This is supposed to be the original settlers of the Brush Creek Valley."
Ditch digging and irrigation...
16) Buchholz Mesa
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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.
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This is the original John Cowden family homestead cabin, which was moved about a half a mile from it's original site on Bellyache. Jack Oleson reconstructed the cabin on the Diamond S ranch.
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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Darrell, Guy and Boyd Barnes, standing at the doorway of the large cabin at Four Mile (four miles up Eby Creek, toward Castle).
The smaller cabin ..."was built from aspen wood logs and was really small. The roof on this cabin was made of dirt and the family garden was grown on the roof of the little cabin. Phyllis Barnes [Johnson] was born in this cabin one year pretty close to Christmas. ... Guy Barnes cleared more land and built a much larger...
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Sallie Welsh (Hartman) was the first woman in Eagle County to graduate from college (University of Denver) and later served as Superintendent of Schools in Eagle County. She married the son of a friend of John Welsh. Charles Hartman was sent to work for John Welsh and a few years later married Sallie. They took over the ranch and lived there until 1930 when the ranch was lost due to financial problems. They had four children, three boys and a girl....
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"When Renee and Charlotte Wolf bought the Ebert Ranch on Conger Mesa in 1973, this is how the house looked to them. It was built by Rudolph Ebert about 1912 or right after the homestead cabin was burned to the ground. Besides the Ebert family, others who lived here were: Walter and Ethel Evans, Frank and Leila Ault, Pete and Juanita Johnsen, Joe and Mary Nichols then Mr. and Mrs. Jim Brown, who abandoned it for twenty years.: -- McCoy Memoirs p....
