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Abandoned cabins of Holy Cross City in the foreground, mountains in background. [photo damaged with ink]
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The Mount of the Holy Cross with snow delineating the feature.
[One of a series of ten photographs included in postal mailer: Frashers Quality Photos, Ten Scenic Views souvenir from Canon City to Leadville, Colo. Frashers, Inc., Pomona, Calif. Required 2 cents postage.]
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MacDonald Knight standing on trailer attached to his jeep. He's looking at lumber in front of an abandoned cabin at Holy Cross City. There are wildflowers in the foreground.
"The one picture of Don Knight's jeep shows some boards. Buster [Beck] said there was two piles of boards on this side of Francy Pass. Why & from where he does not know. SInce they are on this side of Fancy Pass he is sure they did not come from the saw mill at Cross Creek."...
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From left, Ray tippett, Buster Beck, Bud Beck, and Don Knight, resting on the Holy Cross City Road. Wuinn Beck may be seated just above Buster in the photo [difficult to see].
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Joseph H. Fear standing in front of his business, the Holy Cross Garage, in Red Cliff, Colorado. Christine Fear, his daughter, is in the automobile on which he is leaning. Christine graduated from high school in 1957 and worked as her dad's bookkeeper.
8) Buster Beck
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Buster Beck standing in front of the doors of the Holy Cross Garage in Red Cliff. "The doors in the background were used every day so it can be assumed that the accumulation of ice took place over night." -- T. Bud Beck
9) Julia's Deck
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Mount of the Holy Cross Overlook, also known as Julia's Deck, on the Shrine Pass Road [FSR 709], a maintained dirt road, connects Vail and Red Cliff. The overlook was built as handicapped access to the overlook by volunteers representing PAWS, an organization providing recreational facilities for handicapped people.
The photo was taken in July 1994. Quinn and Buster Beck are getting a great view of the Mount of the Holy Cross in the Sawatch Range...
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Climbing Fancy Pass to the Holy Cross Mining District. From left: Harold Stoner, Buster Beck and MacDonald Knight. The Holy Cross District covered 100 square miles of the intervening country between the headwaters of Cross and Homestake Creeks. Gold Park and Holy Cross City were the major mining camps.
Verso: "Big'un Stoner, Buster Beck, Don Knight climbing Fancy Pass 1939"
"Harold Stoner was known by his Missouri Family as 'Big'un.' He had...
12) Kelley's place
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Kelley property up Homestake Rd., Forest Service Road 703. Ray Kelley had built a two story house and several other cabins between 1947 and his death in 1978. He had several mining claims in the area. The Forest Service dismantled the two story house after his death.
Ray Kelley walked into Red Cliff in the 1940s, pulling a red wagon, to do his grocery shopping.
This area is a popular picnic spot, with elk hunting in the big park above the cabin...
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Two hikers on Fancy Pass, no doubt one of the Beck boys and Don Knight, on a prospecting trip.
14) Homestake Dam
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Standing on the dam after the dedication, John P. "Jack" Elliott Dam, Homestake Project, on June 18, 1967. Standees were the Beck children and their grandparents, Joe H. and Johanna Fear.
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John Mueller, Angela Beck and Buster Beck fishing at the Homestake reservoir on August 2, 2004.
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Don Knight, seated in front of a tent, putting on his boots. Campfire with utensils in foreground. Caption on verso: "French Creek 1939"
"Access Gold Park, Holy Cross City on Forest Service Road 703. Holy Cross City via Gold Park is a one-way road. Or, from the Missouri Lake Trail head to French Creek, use Forest Service Road 727. The road to Holy Cross City used to be a good road. We drove up it all the time. Now, Buster [Beck] said, it is...
17) Cross-cut saw
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A man, possibly Buster Beck, in snowfield with a cross-cut felling saw, possibly near Fancy Pass.
"A felling saw is generally less stiff than a bucking saw and the backside, as well as the cutting side, is usually curved inward. Felling saws are more often used to cut down standing trees, so the thinner, lighter design is easier to use without gravity holding the blade against the cut." [http://www.fs.fed.us/t-d/pubs/htmlpubs/htm77712508/page03.htm]...
