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Albert and Newell Buffehr, from left to right, with an unidentified girl standing between them at the side of a house. Both boys are wearing hats and gloves. A dog is at their feet. Jacob Buffehr, their father, worked for the Denver & Rio Grande railroad from 1901 to about 1915, living in Minturn with his family.
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Albert Buffehr standing on sled, holding the reins to a four-horse team. The caption reads "log hauling out of Mill Creek." Albert and his wife, Violet, lived in Minturn and later moved to Edgewater, Colorado. Both are buried in Minturn.
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Albert and Newell Buffehr, from left to right, each holding dogs at the Buffehr ranch. The ranch cabin is in the background. Jacob and Lydia Buffehr, their parents, purchased the ranch at the mouth of Buffehr Creek (which flows from north to south, entering Gore Creek at what is now West Vail) in about 1916. Jacob Buffehr had worked for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad out of Minturn for fifteen years when he decided to operate a dairy farm. He...
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Albert and Newell Buffehr, from left to right, with an unidentified child. On the back of the photo the caption reads: "On the front lawn," but does not say whether the photo was taken in Minturn or at Buffehr Creek.
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Newell Buffehr confronting a horse team pulling a hay wagon on the Buffehr ranch. Behind them, a man is standing on a haystack.
Newell was cited as one of six landowners in the Gore Creek Valley in 1959 by Dick Hauserman [Inventors of Vail p.7]: "John Hanson, Gust Kaihtipes, Pete Katsos, Henry Anholtz, Newell Buffehr, and Jay Pulis."
Newell and his wife Mary moved to Denver for Mary's health. She died in 1962.
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Photo from Schlegel and McKinney Family History, by Virginia Holmes Powell, Sept. 2003 [RARE 920 S3391].
Back, left to right: Clyde (1884), Benjamin (1880), Jessie (1976), Matt (1874), Perl (1883)
Front, left to right: Lula Mae (Doll, 1892), Fred (1888), mother Syrena (1859), father Mathias (1855), Meril (1886), Guy (1886)
