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Red Canyon Ranch house in Edwards built in 1924.
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Storage building on the Brett Ranch, mouth of Lake Creek, Edwards. Scrap lumber at left of building. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Barbara Clark, Eagle County teacher, with Daisy, the horse, at the Bar-Gay Ranch near Edwards, Colorado (at the mouth of Squaw Creek). Ring, the dog (previously owned by Tom Pearch), is standing next to Mrs. Clark. The Bar-Gay Ranch was originally the Hawley place. Gaylord and Barbara Clark bought the house and outbuildings; the land was a school section which they leased for 99 years.
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Peggy Whittaker and Eileen Randall outside a cabin at Brush Creek.
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Highway 6 & 24 in Eagle County. Wilmor[e] Lake would be off to the right. The Clark Ranch (Bar-Gay Ranch) is on the left at midfield. Bellyache Mountain is in the background.
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The old Edwards School in 1976.
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1880-1900: Brett's house porch showing two hand made doors. The right hand door is shut with the screen closed. The left hand door is open with the screen propped on the wall between the two doors. Two children are playing with two dogs in the sunshine on the porch. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Brett Homestead as it looked in October 1997. (Located near Edwards, Colorado)
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c.1911: Edwards, Colorado, in January, showing a ranch house and outbuildings in a snow-covered landscape. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Cabin originally located at Arrowhead Ski Mountain, located between Hwy 6 and the Eagle River, where the main entrance into Arrowhead is now. It was built by a husband, wife and two boys who came through the Gore Creek Valley in the years 1894-1898. They built 3 or 4 similar cabins. In the 1950s, it was used as a bull shelter by Pete Dodo. Relocated by Steve Ruder to a lot west of Edwards on the Hwy 6 Frontage Road.
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Bert Yandell and his dog, Pal, across the valley from Squaw Creek. Bert is carrying books and a lunch pail in his left arm. Ranch buildings are in the background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Photo postcard of a ranch, possibly near Edwards, in the early 1900s. Barn, house, corrals in foreground; train in background. Snow on the ground.
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Two men trap shooting in front of the Brett house, Lake Creek [Edwards]. Two other men are looking on. The house has a sod roof and several indistinct people are standing in the shadows in front of the house.
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North Star Condominuims in Edwards, Colorado, possibly in the early 1980s. Located north of the railroad tracks and I-70.
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Verso caption: "George Price, brother-in-law of A. V. Hunter, driving first auto in Eagle Valley in 1903. Picture also shows rock fort protection against the Indians." There are four people in the automobile. It appears to be parked at a depot, on the right, with rock fortification on the left. Could this possible be Edwards, Colorado, near the Brett Ranch? This photo is a great example of the effect of rubber cement [used to secure the photo to...
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Eighth graders lined up at Edwards School, Spring of 1946. From L to R: Duke Reynolds, Lou Clark, Wanda Terry, and Johnny Reynolds.
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Four men and a dog on the boardwalk in front of the Edwards Store and Post Office. Two of the men, seated on crates, are playing a board game. Appears to be spring or summer. (Note on photo description: Burnison or Brooks) [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Joe Bilda (?) on the upper Beck place near Edwards, early 1900s. Joe is sitting on a sawhorse, with a cabin in the background. There is a tub hanging on the cabin wall.
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Lake Creek School, the first school in Edwards, Colorado. The log school building is in the background with two women on horseback outside the schoolyard fence. The woman on the right is riding side-saddle. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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School children lined up in front of the Edwards School, spring of 1946. Lou Clark (Layman) is in the back row, second girl from the right.