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Ellis Miller, half-brother to Emma Newby Edwards, seated on a horse with his nephew, Joseph Klyde Edwards riding in front. The family cabins are in the background.
22) Emma Mae Newby
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Emma Mae Newby on horseback. Snow on Bellyache Mountain. Emma taught school at the little log school house on Bellache.
23) The Automobile
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Caption: "Joseph Washington Edwards with Joe, Esther, and Lois."
"I was the middle child. My brother, Joseph K. Edwards was born on Bellyache in 1924. He was killed in WW II. My sister, Lois Elaine Edwards, was born on Bellyache in 1927. She died in 1985. Lois married Robert W. Kirk in Colorado Springs in 1945. I had a brother, Richard ("Dickey") born after they left Bellyache. He died in 1936 in LaJunta, Colorado, at age 5." -- Esther Rogers,...
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Caption: "Tera Miller and his father and mother at our home on Bellyache Mtn., Eagle County, Colorado."
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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 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 and Joe Edwards' homestead cabin on Bellyache Mountain. Emma is holding Little Joe, born in 1924. Seated in front of her are Mamie Miller, Emma's mother, and Clementine Bethel, Mamie's mother. The Bethels were visiting from Kansas. Wash tubs and baskets are in the background.
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Emma Newby Edwards and Joe Edwards with their son, Joseph K. [Little Joe], who was born in 1924. The horse team is hitched to a wagon filled with lettuce crates.
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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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Bill Heicher, Eagle County Historical Society volunteer, explains the historic stagecoach route over Bellyache to Rex Brown.
A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
32) Blacksmith shop
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Interior of the blacksmith shop. The building is actually the home that Jack Oleson was born in at Gypsum. He moved the building to the Diamond S Ranch in 2012.
A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
33) Stage stop
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The restored Wohlgehagen cabin, while titled the "stage stop" by Diamond S ranch residents, was very likely not the actual stage stop on Bellyache. Rather, this is Anna Wohlgehagen's homestead cabin that has been re-built and re-located. According to Jack Oleson, the real stage stop was likely located at the head of Squaw Creek and was not salvageable.
A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch...
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Visitor Mauri Nottingham greets Jack Oleson. They are standing outside of the Cowden cabin, a restored homestead. CME (Colorado Mountain Express) provided affordable van transportation for the visitors, making the tour much easier for everyone.
A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
35) Twisted Cedar
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Jack Oleson harvested this unique cedar trunk, then "planted" it at a complex of restored homesteads on the Diamond S Ranch. The Ranch owners named the comlex "Charlottetown, in honor of Oleson's late wife, Charlotte Nottingham Oleson.
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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Eagle County Historical Society volunteer Bill Heicher explains the stagecoach route that went from Red Cliff to Squaw Creek then over Bellyache mountain to Eagle.
A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
