Maud (Stewart) Musick
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Eagle Valley Enterpirse - December 3, 1992
Eagle Valley Enterpirse page 13 - November 17, 1994
LADY IN THE SILVER SADDLE
Local pioneer Maud Stewart Musick made her mark ..... from Dotsero to Hollywood
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Eagle Valley Enterprise Editor's Note: Iola Knuth this week shares her personal rememberance of her second cousin, Maud Stewart Musick, who died a the age of 101 two Novembers ago in 1992. Dotsero-born Maud, whose adventures and successes led her to California, was one of Eagle County's most colorful pioneers - an expert horse trainer whose jeweled and gold-studded $20,000 saddle and riding outfit is now displayed in the Roy Rogers Museum. Musick's legacy includes a wide circle of surviving Colorado relatives in the Stewart, Yost, Baer and Clauson families. Iola Knuth lives in Pania, Colo.
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By Iola Knuth
She was the last of the lucky pioneers -- Eagle County's Maud Stewart, born Dec. 23, 1890 in Dotsero to John W. (Jack) and Belle Martin Stewart, the youngest daughter of five children, and one of the valley's most colorful and accomplished early citizens.
Maud, whose siblings Audra, Claude, Edna and Carlton are all deceased now, did on the threshold and traning venture. Maud later was involved in a money dispute and lawsuit with a jockey and his wife. Maude won in court, getting 29 of the 31 horses they owned.
During this time, Maud had a riding outfit designed by John McCabe of Hollywood -- a saddle, bridle, shaps, gauntlets and martingales. The outfit was fashioned from black leather, gold, silver and rubies .... valued at over $20,000, a fortune at the time. Maud rode in local parades dressed in her outfit atop her Arabian stallion, Diamond. In 1932 she displayed the outfit during the Pony Express celebration.
During the time she was married to Howard, Maud continued to send money back home to her family in Colorado and invested it in ranches on Sweetwater, a dude ranch, and business places in Gypsum. She stocked the ranches with sheep, cattle, horses, and built a home for her mother and brother. She spent money for a variety of things for the comfort of her sisters, brothers and mother.
Maud and Howard later divorced, and she married Paul Lincke, but that union lasted a short time.
During the 1960's and 1970's Maud sold one of her horses to TV cowboy star Gene Autry. Her lavishly decorated saddle and riding gear was sold to Roy Rogers and is now on display at the Roy Rogers Museum in Victorville, Calif.
Maud eventually moved to a small house a few miles from Chatsworth, Calif., and lived there until it finally became difficult to take care of herself. She then moved to a retirement center in Chatsworth, then to a nursing home in Lancaster, where she died on Nov. 27 1992. Her good friend Pat visited often.
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Maud's parents came to Colorado in 1879, first to Leadville and then Red Cliff before settling in Dotsero in 1882. There the built their home on property now owned by by William Stephens of Sweetwater and the site of Stephens Nursery. Their original log home near the Colorado Rive was destroyed in a fire during the 1970's. Maud's father did in the spring of 1916 after he was struck by a train while boarding at the Red Cliff station on his way home from a visit with relatives.
As a young girl she spent time breaking and training horses a the Schum Camp, owned by Casper Schum, son Bill and daughters Etta and Jennie. The Stewart Nels Yost kids were cousins, and there were six of them; Mattie, Pearl, Lula, Earl, Elsie and Leona. Their mother was a half sister of Belle Stewart, and she passed away at the age of 36, leaving her children to be raised by their father. The family had a ranch across the Grand River (now the Colorado) from the Stewarts. All spent the days at Bill's camp , breaking young horses and riding the range. When they all reached their teen years the attended dances, usually riding horses to Gypsum and also to Glenwood Springs for celebrations. Maud and the girls took pride in having nice dresses and taking care of their hair.
Maude headed for Dayton, Washington in 1911 and then in 1916, to Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1920 her mother sold the family ranch and cattle and bought a home in Eagle. Made spent a lot of time in California, taking her mother to local places of interest. She married Bill Schum during the 1920's and returned to their ranch on Sweetwater that Bill had purchased. Later the couple divorced and Maud returned to California, where she loved Los Angeles and Hollywood and western movies with stars like Tom Mix.
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(Photos Caption) A lady with flair. Maud at age 17 (below photo) in Sal Lake City, and showing off her cowgirl getup (above photo) at a parade in Pasadena, Calif., with Governoer Rolfe and and Monte Montana (right)
(Photo Caption) Getting Noticed The Dotsero native had no trouble getting noticed at parades (below) especially with this $20,000 black leather saddle studded with rubies, silver and gold. Roy Rogers shown above with Maud's relatives Darrell (left) and Lee Stewart, bought the rig for display at his California museum. (photos courtesy of Lee Stewart)
