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C.1900: "The Big Barn," Doll Brothers Ranch, Gypsum Valley. Barn had 3 full stories, running water and electricity. Could stable 250 horses individually. Winter view with snow on ground. Fencing in foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Horse and rider with dog at left, standing in front of a tent. Possibly someone standing in tent opening but photo is blurred. Sheep pen and sheep in background. Photo labeled: "Sheep Camp, Dry Lake," in lower left corner.
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Potato harvest on Bobson Ranch near Gypsum. The unearthed potatoes are put on the horse-drawn sorter by hand. Two men are filling the sack from the sorter. Filled sacks are left upright in the rows to be loaded onto carts.
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Edna Stewart Lemon on horseback at left, Madeline Winifred Lemon on horseback at right (probably 4-6 years old). In between them is Laura Josephine Lemon, Madeline's grandmother. They are riding on the Stewart family homestead land at Sweetwater, Colorado.
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5. Early Gypsum
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Early Gypsum where tents provided original services: hotel, stores, saloon, restaurant. Meals at the Eagle Hotel were 35 cents, a bed was 25 cents. All of these services were located across from the train depot. The location is close to present day Railroad Ave. and Second Street.
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Two unidentified riders with rifles across their saddles at the Doll Brothers Ranch. Fencing and cattle behind them. It's possible that the man on the left is Mr. Stone, livestock foreman on the Doll ranch.
The Chicago photo studio mark infers that the photos were those of John Condon, Doll Brothers' partner, developed after a visit to the ranch.
12. Ranch entrance
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Photo postcard of the Odd Fellow's Hall in Gypsum taken sometime after its construction in 1902. A horse and buggy are tethered at the street.
The lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Gypsum, burned after a December 15,1990, late night fire. According to Fire Chief, Dave Vroman, the blaze was traced to a furnace recently installed. First Lutheran Church of Gypsum and Mount of the Holy Cross Lutheran Church of Vail took over ownership...
18. Willis Staup
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"Willis H. Staup, son of W. T. and Sovella Staup was born Aug. 18, 1895 at Whitewater, Colo. The family moved to Gypsum in 1908, where they operated the Gypsum Hotel.
Willis ran the first garage and shipped in the first autos to Gypsum. He was inducted in the Army Oct. 2, 1917 and most of his Army service during World War I was in France and Germany. He received his discharge Apr. 29, 1919.
On Christmas Day, 1919, he was united in marriage to Pearl...
19. Kathy Schmidt
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Kathy Schmidt on Pommers, her horse.
"Our daughter, Kathy, was in 4-H and wanted a horse. We found one not yet 'broke' and bought him. Kathy had taken a course in horse training from the University of Wyoming by correspondence. So we trained 'Pommers.' We found the name of a war horse in an unusual book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle--writer of Sherlock Holmes mysteries. We spent a lot of time with Pommers to get him used to the railroad, the highway...