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c.1930: Crossroads at Wolcott, Colorado: Colorado Hwy 11, U.S. Hwy 24.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Ben Gaze pretending to threaten Dave Harper with an tie tool at the Wolcott station. Dave is taking the threat in stride.
23) Dock Homan
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Dock [Fletcher Bliss] Homan at Wolcott. Two children are unidentified in the photo.
24) Dock Homan
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Dock [Fletcher Bliss] Homan at the Wolcot depot. Western Union sign in the background; dog at left background. Homan was the D. & R.G. agent at Wolcott.
Eagle Valley Enterprise Jan. 10, 1910 p.8: "F. B. Homan the D.&R.G. agent at Wolcott, has been a victim of the influenza the past week, but is getting along nicely toward recovery now."
26) Evelyn Glaze
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Evelyn Glaze in a baby buggy at Wolcott. The Eagle River and some buildings are in the background.
27) Evelyn Glaze
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Evelyn Glaze in a baby carriage at Wolcott, 1919. The Wolcott cement bridge is visible in the background.
28) Fannie Powers
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Fannie Jane Powers, age 87, taken on June 4, 1944. Fannie died on March 27, 1945, in Eagle.
She was born Fannie Jane Brock in Excello, Mo., on Nov. 29, 1856, residing for 65 years of her life in Eagle county, most of that time near Wolcott. She was married to John Ridgeway with whom she had seven children, all of whom preceded her in death. John died and, in 1923, she married Charles Powers. who died in 1930. She is buried in Sunset View Cemetery....
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Fletcher [J. Homan] and Kate Flynn at Wolcott, standing on risers near the tracks.
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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 McGloffin and Kate Flynn standing in front of the Wolcott station. There is a dog (possibly Jack the dog) behind Frank's legs. The sign to the left is for: "Western Union Telegraph & Cable Office."
32) Freighters
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"A train of freight wagons like these were a common sight on the road between Wolcott and Routt County points, before the advent of the Moffatt Road. By traveling together freighters could lend assistance to one another in case of an equipment breakdown, encountering a mudhole or a steep grade, of which there were many. This photo was taken about a mile north west of McCoy, by A. B. Noyce of Steamboat Springs in the spring of 1903. The three freighters...
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George Da Lee and Florence Quinlan at the Wolcott depot, 1919.
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In back, from left, Bert Johnson and Kate Flynn. In front, Jim Homan and Florence Quinlan. Railroad cars and buildings are in the background.
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Group photo of four women, three men, standing in front of a wagon. Horse standing to left of group. Women are wearing bonnets, men wearing hats. Building in left background.
Caption on verso: "On our way to a barn dance 1914"
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
36) Hanscome's place
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Hanscome's old home after the fire. Tango, the dog, is looking down the road.
Alfred and Mary Jane Baker Young Hanscome married at Grand Lake in 1883, then coming to Eagle County, about one mile west of Wolcott. They worked a small ranch until Alfred's death in 1919. Mrs. Hanscome died in 1921. -- Eagle Valley Enterprise Aug. 19, 1921 p.1
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Harry Lewis and Myra Canmon standing on the railroad tracks at Wolcott, 1918.
38) Harry Patch
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Harry Patch standing at Iron Bridge, wearing a suit and holding a plant in his hands.
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Stacking hay using a horse team and a Mormon derrick on the J over J Ranch (now the 4 Eagle Ranch) north of Wolcott, Colorado. The Ranch was originally homesteaded by John Welsh and later run by his son-in-law, Charles Hartman. Tractors were never used on the ranch before it left the family in 1930.
40) Herwick Family
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Ida Herwick and her children, Thanksgiving 1894, at church services in Wolcott.
Back row, L to R: Paul, age 10; Frederick, age 13; WIlliam C., age 15
Front, L to R: Tina, age 3; Ida, Age 33; Mary, age 18 mos.; Oren age 5; Birdellah, age 17; Guy, age 6
"For several months she had been putting a little money away for a special occasion, and she intended that having a family portrait done would be it. Of all the things she could think of, having...
