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The right half of a panoramic view of Eagle (3 dates listed: 1908, 1920, 1930). Eagle River in foreground; train tracks and depot in midground. Brush Creek in right background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Grant Deeble and Joe Dice standing next to horses in front of the bunk house at the Schlutter Place. Flat bed wagon is on the right, hay wagon is at left foreground. Taken during hunting season.
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Ski tow warming house located across from the tow on the Whittaker Ranch. It was built at the same time the ski tow was put in. Gordon Whittaker had it built; Purley Bertrock may have been the actual builder. The original roof was flatter.
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The Buffington cabin, Brush Creek, 1979, showing log structure with planed wood roofing. The Buffington and Newquist families were neighbors.
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Virgil Newquist and Herman Newquist (on right) standing in front of a Herman's jeep at the Watkins cabin, Brush Creek, 1979. Herman was Virgil's older brother.
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Fred Dice holding milk bucket. Faye Dice has her right arm wrapped around her father's neck. Marie Deeble is standing to Fred's right. Dog in right foreground. Bunk house in background (Schlutter Place, Brush Creek).
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Sadie Macdonell and Alex (at right) playing cards with a friend in their house at Brush Creek.
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Mary Ann and Joe Carter in the drive in front of the original warming house at the Whittaker Ski tow. They made the house their summer home for three years before the sale of the ranch. Cars, campers, and playground equipment in the background.
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"M. H. [Martin H.] and Clara Waldo came to Brush Creek around 1902 and ranched across the creek from the Shryacks until 1917, when they retired in California. Tom Carlin bought the ranch, and subsequent owners were Hans and Thelma Larsen and Glenn and Denzel Norman." -- [History of Brush Creek p.26] The Waldo's had one daughter who married Ralph Wolverton. This couple had a son, Charles Wolverton.
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Snowy day at the Beecher Gulch Place. Dixie the horse in front of barn; dogs, Boots and Rex in front of a 1937 Hudson Terraplane automobile. House in right midground.
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Front view of the Newquist Family cabin. Log construction with roof collapsing. Sagebrush surrounding the site. A spring was located on the slope below the cabin; water was hauled up to the cabin routinely.
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Side view of the cabin behind the Schlutter house in summer. Visitors stayed here. Porch is on right. Barbed wire fence in foreground.
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Taken from the hill above the Newquist Family log cabin, the deterioration of the roof structure and back wall is clearly visible. Additional structure visible in left background is a root cellar.
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Five generations of women in one family, probably taken at the "Halfway House," once on the Fulford Ranch, about .5 mile north of the forks. 1. Elizabeth Halloran; 2. Sarah Jane Fulford; 3. Adelaide Morgan; 4. Nettie Peterson; 5. Lillian Peterson [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Alec/Ackie and Sadie Macdonell formall attired standing at the north side of their ranch house on Brush Creek.
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Nellie Abrams, daughter of Loyal Abrams, granddaughter of Mary Jennie Abrams, standing in front of log cabin
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The old Dice place up west Brush Creek. Barn, house and outbuildings are visible from the road through the fenceline. Road is not paved. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Man on horseback standing in front of log cabin on Lower Brush Creek. Snow on ground. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Vernon Mann and Carl Eaton, left to right, seated on horses at the Wiltshire Place. Wagon and cart behind the riders, in addition to log out-buildings. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The students of Brush Creek School lined up at the side of the building with their teacher, Edna Pearch at far left. From left: No.1 Bill Long; 3 Mayme Long; 7 Roy Long; 8 Ed Long Mayme Long married Alvin Rule. Roy Long married Frances Rule. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]