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Jessie Fair, soon Chambers, stands to the right of the Chambers Ranch house. The Chambers Ranch once had a large dairy and delivered throughout the area. The house has a large front porch and is lined with trees in front. The Chambers Barn is now the Eagle County Historical Society Museum and once stood where the current Interstate 70 interchange is today.
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"About 1916 on the Conger Mesa. Lillian Johannbroer, Mary and Katherine Ebert, Leona White (a school teacher), Lena Schrupp and Minnie Ambos." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 259
Phot taken by Ferdinand Ambos.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Elizabeth Charity Forster, daughter of Henry Moore Forster and Mary Jane Kirkland Forster, at the age of 18. She was born July 27, 1854, in WInterset, Iowa. Her family moved to Valley View, Texas, where Elizabeth met and married William Henry George October 23, 1873.
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Emma Newby Edwards holding a deer head in front of the homestead cabin on Bellyache.
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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.
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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.
9) Fishing
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Fishing at Lucky G.J. Ranch.
Margaret Smith, Edith Eidem, and Delia Bridget O'Callaghan, three WW II ex-Wacs, bought the Ranch in February 1947 from Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stewart. They operated the 300-acre ranch as a dude ranch. There was a thirty-two room ranch house that they cleaned up and then they added cabins and worked fields.
Gene Godat worked as their hunting guide for tourists. Gene and Fawntella Godat owned the Hilltop Dude Ranch in Sweetwater...
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Florence Scrivens (left) and Elsie Brooks standing outside in the snow.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"A trio of former McCoy residents, at Glenwood Springs in 1967. Elizabeth Quinlan Bedell, Juanita Theisen Johnsen [Johnson?], and Lulu Graves Horn." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 255
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Tiny Carter holds onto a calf. Another cow is behind her along the fenceline on the right. There is a dirt track or road on the left side of the photograph.
14) Larsens
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From left to right: Duane Larsen, Hester Larsen, & Hans Larsen. Mother & Daddy Figgins are on the right side of the photo. They appear to be at the Larsen's ranch.
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"The Binder at work in the oats near Eagle, Colo" as remembered by Alda Borah. From the left to right, from photo caption: Leo Daugherty's sister, Mildred Nutt, and Leo Daugherty. There are three horses pulling the binder with Mildred on the seat. Leo is peeking up behind the horses wearing a hat.
16) Lucky GJ Ranch
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Calling card from Lucky GJ Ranch, at the confluence of Sweetwater Creek and the Colorado River. Margaret Smith, Edith Eidem, and Delia Bridget O'Callaghan, three WW II ex-Wacs, bought the Ranch in February 1947 from Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stewart. They operated the 300-acre ranch as a dude ranch. There was a thirty-two room ranch house that they cleaned up and then they added cabins and worked fields.
Gene Godat worked as their hunting guide for tourists....
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The main ranch house at the Lucky GJ Ranch.
Margaret Smith, Edith Eidem, and Delia Bridget O'Callaghan, three WW II ex-Wacs, bought the Ranch in February 1947 from Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stewart. They operated the 300-acre ranch as a dude ranch. There was a thirty-two room ranch house that they cleaned up and then they added cabins and worked fields.
Gene Godat worked as their hunting guide for tourists. Gene and Fawntella Godat owned the Hilltop...
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"Mrs. William Johannbroer beside a new potato digger. Four horses were required to pull one of these." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 234
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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1900: Ranch wives, Gypsum Valley: sisters Ada Slusser (left) and Lucy Doll. They are standing on the porch of a ranch house, wearing aprons.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
20) The Gates women
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A grouping of the Gates women during the summer.
Back row, from left: Clark Gates' wife, Grace; Walter Gates' wife, Grace; Mary
Middle row: Ruth, Nona, Eva and Martha
Front row: Berta, Marie and Edith
