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Abandoned cabins of Holy Cross City in the foreground, mountains in background. [photo damaged with ink]
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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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A unidentified individual leans against a cabin near Holy Cross City. Holy Cross City was a short-lived mining camp located in what is today the Holy Cross Wilderness. A mining camp in the Holy Cross Mining District, Holy Cross City reached a population of 300 between 1881 and 1883. The town included a post office, two general stores, saloon, assay office and hotel, called the Timberline Hotel. There were reportedly two mills in operation at Holy...
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A cabin at Holy Cross City. The entrance to the Mollie Tunnel is visible in the background. An explosion occurred in the Mollie Tunnel on December 16, 1896. "The accident was caused by the explosion of a shot in a missed hole. Five men were in the drift at the time, and two, Eugene Belmont and P. O. Sullivan, both of Kokomo, were so badly injured in the face and eyes that it is likely they will lose their sight." -- The Aspen Tribune, December...
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Caption: "All the kids at Holy Cross City. Lionel's [Azoulay] house in background. Mica. Summer 1949" The Knight-Azoulay children playing on a boulder near the Azoulay house in Holy Cross City.
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Harold Stoner in Treasure Vault Valley, Holy Cross Mining District, late 1930s. Lots of individual prospectors continued to look for various minerals long after the hey-day of the Colorado mining rush. Verso: "Harold Stoner & pack burros in Treasure Vault Valley BJS"
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1933-40: Front and side view of the rock Shelter House on Notch Mountain, opposite the Holy Cross. "This is the end of the trail for pilgrimagers [sic]." Built by the CCC. Door and window shaded by overhangs of timber and shingle. Foreground composed of rocky ground. (Labeled 283452) [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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MacDonald Knight standing at the door of his cabin at Gold Park. To the left and behind the cabin is the ore bin. Ore was packed out on burros from the Glengary [Glengarry] mine to the ore bin and then transported by truck from there to Leadville. Verso: "our shack at Gold Park, ore bin in back of it; end of the line for pack string from the Glengary 1940 Don"
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"It is a 1948 view looking east into Gold Basin from the trail on the rim where George Burgess and I studied the cliffs to spot the trail down and judge if the pack horse could handle it. The Morgan cabin we stayed in is well portrayed. It was here we tied the horse to a boulder with an insufficient knot while we went down and tested it out. The trail was largely obliterated by rock creep and fall, but we thought the horse could do it with our...