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On the left is the cabin at Holy Cross City, used by Don Knight. Two burros are visible. On the right, Don Knight is preparing soil for panning.
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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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Tom Knight, leading a pack burro. Sam Anderson is mounted, riding behind Tom. Holy Cross City and mill are in the background.
Front: "Me and my ------- Holy Cross City, me, Sam Anderson 1940"
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Front: "Donald on top peak H.C. Mt." "My Uncle Don standing at the very top of Mount Holy Cross!"
There is a dog right below MacDonald Knight on the peak.
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Verso: "Tom [Knight] and Sam Anderson, road to Holy Cross City 1940"
The men are resting their horses on the improved road.
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Micheline and Don Knight with baby Patricia, taken during the trip to Holy Cross City. The Hound is in the foreground.
10) All the kids
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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.
11) Mill building
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Mill building at the mill pond, head of Cross Creek (Holy Cross Wilderness Area). Two men are examining something by the foundation of the building.
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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...
13) Family Trip
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The Azoulay-Knight and Weddell families posing for phototgrapher MacDonald Knight during a trip to Holy Cross City.
Caption: "On the road to Holy Cross City, Mt. Whitney in background"
From left: Lionel and Louise Azoulay with son Joel; Micheline Knight, Marcelle Azoulay (Memere), Tom Knight holding Patricia Knight, and the Weddells.
14) MacDonald Knight
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MacDonald Knight holding his fishing pole and his catch, standing with his right foot on the running board of an automobile.
Caption: "D. & his fish"
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MacDonald Knight standing on abandoned lumber on Francy Pass. The lumber was intended for the Gold Bug Mine gold mill building. When the bottom dropped out of mining in the area, supplies and equipment were abandoned in place.
Front: "lumber on Fancy Pass;" verso: "lumber was for Gold Bug gold mill building. Don in picture."
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Two hikers on Fancy Pass, no doubt one of the Beck boys and Don Knight, on a prospecting trip.
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Man resting in the shade of an overhang with pack mules and dog at the top of Fancy Pass.
"I recall that little mine way up on Middle Mountain, I think it was the Blossom. I know that when you stuck your head up over Fancy Pass that little mine was staring your right in the face although at some distance. As most of the places we looked into, there was no trace of any mineral on the premises." -- Bud Beck Jan. 2010
19) Tom Knight
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Front: "French Creek falls, me in 1930" [written by Tom Knight] Verso: "French Creek Falls, Gold Park"
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MacDonald Knight and friends, prospecting in Gold Park.
Front" "H.C.City gold rush '41;" Verso: "shot in Gold Park"
