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The Warren Henry family standing in front of their cabin on Henry Creek. From left: Mary, Florence, Warren and Ruth Henry. There are antlers piled between Florence and Warren. The cabin has a sod roof. "Warren Henry and his brother, Bill, were familiar figures around McCoy during the early days of the 1900's. They were both Daddy McCoy's ranchhands and also did freighting between Wolcott and Yampa. Both brothers homesteaded on Blacktail Creek."...
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Main Street looks a bit different these days. From left to right, Joan, Olive, Barbara, and Helen stand on Main Street of Fulford, Colorado in October 1964.
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Emma Edwards standing in front of the homestead cabin in winter. Emma wrote in little Joe's [Joseph Klyde Edwards] baby book, 1925: "When you were 5 months old we were going over to your Grandma Millers in the sleigh. One runner ran up on the bank and the other in the soft snow making the sleigh tip over on its side and threw you and me out in the snowdrift. You were asleep and never even woke up." -- Esther Rogers, March 3, 2013
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A rainbow over Fulford makes for a great view. Charles "Heimie" Hemberger's cabin is in the foreground; view towards New York Mountain.
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The Bill Babcock homestead cabin, built in 1912, Yarmony Park. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Brunel Ranch house built in 1941, across the Colorado River from the mouth of Red Dirt Creek.
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Monica, Darrell and Boyd Barnes, seated in the doorway of the larger cabin at Four Mile (four miles up Eby Creek). Animals in the yard include a calf, dog, and pig.
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Grant Deeble, on left holding rifle, standing next to another hunter (named Baker). In front of them is a bear carcass, draped on a sawhorse. Automobile and cabin in background.
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Min Hockett Borah, in dress and hat, standing on the porch of her log house at Deep Lake. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Across the railroad tracks at Twin Bridges, Colorado River Road.
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Brunel Ranch cabin (north Ranch) with Poison Creek access. Caption on verso: "Colter place."
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View east along road in "Upper Town" of Fulford, Colorado toward cabin with large ridgepole. "Cabin with pool table on right" (John Gabelman)
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Ellis Bearden seated on log and Joe Kikle, standing. The photo was taken by Jim Henderson who wrote the following on the verso: "Joe Kikle, long time resident of Red Cliff, went to school in Gilman, 1921--2--3. Ellis (Bear Cat) Bearden sitting down. I was five (5) and Ellis was six (6) months old when we first met. Raymond was six (6) and that my friend is a long time ago. -- Jim Henderson 10/12/1989"
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Olsen dwelling built in 1919 south of State Bridge.
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The Bearden cabin with Ellis Bearden's pickup truck parked on the road behind it.
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Root cellar adjacent to the homestead on Hernage Creek. "I think it would be best to label this as 'homestead on Hernage Creek' rather than 'Hernage Homestead.' I checked the patent records and they do not indicate that Henry Hernage homesteaded this specific parcel. Rather, he homesteaded clser to the mouth of Brush Creek. ... Location: T5S R84W Sec. 21, NW1/4 SW1/4 A patent search indicated the earliest record on this property is a homestead...
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Cabin on the Crawford place, built in 1932, in El Jebel.
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Man with burro wearing man's hat at the Lloyd cabins at Lake Charles.
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A team of horses (Bill and Tom) pulling a sled of wood in the canyon above Black Mountain Ranch, 1928. Cabins visible in background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Alfred Benson's log cabin (hewn inside) on Shrine Pass FSR (Forest Service Road) 709. His skid horse in harness for pulling logs is standing outside. There are several cabins (log and board), a blacksmith shop and a barn at the site.