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Wiltshire (Eaton) place, with the house built by Anthony Smith (confirmed as his residence by Marie Mayne). House is in midground with barn and outbuildings in the left background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Carl Uncapher place on Sheephorn Creek, built in 1895. Automobiles in foreground.
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Round-up at the Leonard Horn Ranch, Wolcott, Colorado. Two riders on horseback are separating cattle at the corral.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
4) Dice Place
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The old Dice place up west Brush Creek. Barn, house and outbuildings are visible from the road through the fenceline. Road is not paved.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Webster dwelling on Lake Creek, built in 1939. Caption on verso: "Burford"
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"The buildings on the Lyon Hidden Valley Ranch are in a much better state of repair than any of the other deserted ranches in Yarmony Park, mainly due to the fact that it was occupied the longest. The road to the former John Hudson ranch a mile and a half distant goes through the gap on the left." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 279
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Buerger dwelling built in 1929 on Sweetwater Road. Antlers are mounted over the porch.
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The Tom Elliott place on Rock Creek. The ranch house is on the right with corrals and barn at left. The ranch is in Routt County, two miles north of McCoy. Irrigation was from the creek in order to grow supplementary feed for winter.s
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
9) Strubi house
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Strubi family dwelling in Burns built in 1953. Wire fence in foreground.
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"The ranch buildings on what later became the Black Mountain Ranch. When this picture was taken in 1935 [photo has both 1934 and 1936 written on it], it was a working ranch (with emphasis on work) and had about fifty acres under cultivation, the balance of the 1,100 acres was pasture and timberland. Pioneers named the hill in the background Sawmill Mountain. Until 1915 the hill was a paradise for grouse and to see fifty or sixty in a flock was...
11) Sneve Ranch
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The William Johnson Ranch, formerly the Anthony Sneve Ranch on West Brush Creek. The patent on the ranch was established in 1911. The ranch was purchased by Edna Chambers in 1935. Chambers in turn sold the property to William S. and Nora Johnson in 1938. It is now the site for Sylvan Lake State Park. [A History of Sylvan Lake State Park, by Kathy Heicher]
13) McCoy lane
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"The McCoy lane looking west. This 1912 photo [says 1911 on verso of photo] shows the front part of the Hotel on the left, [on the right] the blacksmith shop, the big red barn and the front of the old log barn and beyond it, the bridge across Rock Creek. The big barn, approximately fifty by sixty feet in size, was of frame construction and built by C. H. McCoy in 1902. It had stalls for twenty horses and a loft that held ten tons of loose hay....
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The house was built in 1880-90's. It was moved from Keystone mines near Oak Creek in 1944 to the Leonard Horn Ranch. The house was sawed in half to get accross the frozen Colorado River at State Bridge in order to make the move. There is a barbed wire fence in the foreground and a rug airing on the porch rail.
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Brush Creek Valley, 1916. Two groups of buildings, fenced pasture and Brush Creek visible with Bellyache Mountain in the background.
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Monica Barnes, holding deer carcass, with Boyd at left and Darrell at right. The dog is interested.
They're at the homestead cabin on Castle.
The rules of the homestead act required fence around the property and other improvements.
"The fence was built totally by Guy Barnes. Every post hole was dug by hand, every fence post was sawed or chopped from trees on the land and barbed wire (usually four strands) was strung on every fence post. Wooden...
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A rear view of the ranch house, Pair o Dice Mesa. Metal roof and gated yard visible with milk buckets hanging on fence. The "spud" cellar is in the left foreground. The only structure left standing today (2007) is the rock wall of the spud cellar.
18) Buerger place
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Buerger dwelling built in 1941, at 5798 Sweetwater Road. Fence encloses yard.
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Three men seated in a field with 2 dogs in front of the Doll Brothers' Ranch. They are probably members of the Doll family. Lucy Doll wearing coat and shawl, stands behind them. Barns, farmhouse and outbuildings shown with cattle grazing at left background.
20) Ambos Homestead
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The John Ambos homestead on Congor Mesa, March 20, 2008 (looking northeast).
"The Ambos ranch buildings on Conger Mesa in 1907. John Schiller, a Yampa carpenter, did the finishing work on the house after the logs were laid up. Members of the Ambos family lived here until 1919. Among others who occupied it after that date were: the Warren Henry and Hugh Norman families; Shorty Anderson and his son-in-law, Patscheck. Charley and Mildred Cock were...
