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A narrative history of Beaver Creek, Colorado, written by Don Simonton. Don and his wife, June, wrote several books on the history of the area and its changing landscape with ski resorts.
Simonton covers the early history of Beaver Creek as an area with ranches to its beginnings as a ski resort in the town of Avon. Early businesses, crops, settlers, and entrepreneurs are discussed in detail and important agreements such as the Ute Reservation...
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A family gathering at the J.W. Edwards' house, probably after Joe and Emma's wedding. Left to right: John K. and Ella Casteel Edwards, Granda (Mamie) Miller; skip 4 popel; Emma and Joe Edwards; Nick Edwards (Joe's brother); boy's sitting, Ellis and Karlton Miller.
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The John J. Ambos homestead and cabin.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Ambos homestead cabin and Ambos Reservoir. "In 1906 John Ambos filed on a reservoir site on what is now a part of the Black Mountain Ranch and a year later built this cabin to camp in while the dam was under construction. Built for temporary use at an elevation of 8,500 feet where four feet of snow is nothing unusual, the little 8' x 12' cabin" was still standing in 1977. --McCoy Memoirs p.240
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The Bill Babcock homestead cabin, built in 1912, Yarmony Park.
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"Yarmony Park, 1968. The Babcock sisters pay a visit to the old homestead they abandoned in 1924. Edith, Elizabeth and Ila pose with the cabin and Yarmony Mountain for a background." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 295
Verso of photograph: Edith Babcock Wood, Ila Babcock Barker, Elizabeth Babcock Barker.
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Sod-roofed log cabin, in the yard at the "Baily Place," currently (1986) owned by Ben Wurtsmith. John Bailey homesteaded this area of Burns, Colorado, in the 1890's.
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The original Bailey homestead house with the new addition on the front.
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"The Baker homestead cabin six miles west of McCoy, abandoned many years ago, was a home to Carl and Bertha Baker and their family of four boys and two girls for a number of years." -- McCoy Memoirs p.178
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The front of the cabin at Four Mile with children in the snow.
12) Ben Bolt
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A portrait of Ben Bolt of Minturn, Colorado. The namesake for Bolt's Lake in Minturn, Bolt was an early homesteader in the Minturn/Avon area.
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"The Butler Family in 1912. The year they arrived on the Conger Mesa and made their home on what is presently the Black Mountain Ranch. Here are Helen, Ben, Katherine and Roger." -- McCoy Memoirs p.266
Katherine "Kate" Johannbroer Butler inherited the ranch from her mother, Helene Johannbroer, in 1911. In 1920, Kate sold the ranch to John Ambos, Jr.
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The Gates family has traced their genealogy back 6 generations beginning in Europe. This short family history is of Bert & Nona Gates, 5th generation, and their ranching and homesteading experiences in the Eagle River Valley. The information used in this was compiled by Lemley Gates.
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"Just across Rock Creek Canyon from the Ebert place on Conger Mesa, Bert Hadley took up a 160 acre homestead and built this house on it in 1905. Prior to that year, he had married Huldah LaForce and they had spent a part of their honeymoon on the former Milby Frazer place at the head of Egeria Canyon. Bert, who was in poor health, did not live long enough to realize his dream of transforming the homestead into a cattle ranch. After his death, about...
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"In 1906 John Ambos filed on a reservoir site on what isnow a part of the Black Mountain Ranch and a year later built this cabin to camp in while the dam was under construction. Built for temporary use at an elevation 8,500 feet where four feet of snow is nothing unusual, the little 8'x12' cabin is still standing...." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 240.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
17) Bob Cowden
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Bob Cowden, whose parents homesteaded on Bellyache, assisted with the tour of the Diamond S historical sites. The original Cowden cabin was rebuilt by Jack Oleson in 2009.
A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
18) Booco Ranch
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"Members of the Booco family grouped by their cabins on Alkali Creek near Wolcott about 1920. From left to right: Isaac Booco, Cecil Terrell Playford and daughter, Grandmother Margaret Booco, Margaret Terrell, Mrs. Mary Booco, Jack, Billy, Gordon, Ben and Gern Booco." -- McCoy Memoirs p.185
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Darrell, Boyd and Monica Barnes, with the family dog, standing in the yard of the larger cabin at Four Mile.
20) Brett homestead
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Brett Homestead as it looked in October 1997. (Located near Edwards, Colorado)
