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Logger trimming logs at Wearyman Creek. Saw is in left foreground.
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Photo portrait of Bob McDougal dressed in aviator jacket, scarf, helmet and goggles. World War II era photo. Bob's parents were "Red" and Myrtle McDougal of Red Cliff, Colorado. Red was Town Marshall.
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Shrine Pass in the snow taken on Christmas 1986.
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Timber saw in front of cut logs in the snow.
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Photograph of a souvenir photo commemorating school year Sept. 18, 1899-May 4, 1900, Lake Creek School, Edwards, Colorado. Presented by Georgia Devereux, teacher. School Board: Wm. Beck, Pres., Brett, Treas., Cunningham, Sec'y. Photograph of Georgia Devereux cut and mounted onto cardboard presentation. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Parishioners from St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Minturn, on a pilgrimage to Denver (May 6, 2010). They visited Sacred Heart Church, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception. Back, from left: Eli Finlay, Debbie Buckley, Fr. Hugh Guentner, James Jank, Irene Meador, Pat Riggin. Front, from left: Angela Beck, Ann Madison, Adelina Sandoval, Carla Gurascio.
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Standing on the dam after the dedication, John P. "Jack" Elliott Dam, Homestake Project, on June 18, 1967. Standees were the Beck children and their grandparents, Joe H. and Johanna Fear.
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Logging camp up Wearyman Creek.
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Studio photograph of Dessie Tomlin Beck.
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From left to right, Joe Fear and Don Knight at the entrance to Knight's silver claim in Marble Joe Fear is putting loaded ore buckets on the aerial tram down to the loading area. Don Knight is readying a carbide lamp to go in the mine and drill for the next shot. "Don Knight, the eternal prospector, approached Buster Beck and me, Joe Fear, at the beginning of mud season for the logging business. He could get some lease rights to xome silver claims...
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Ron Dump, Theodore "Bud" Beck, Louie "Dutch" Gleiforst and a fourth man standing in front of a trailor house. Ron Dump has his right arm in his right boot (his right foot is bootless but socked) and the men are examining the toe. The men were cutting logs for Ray Earl Warren, owner of the trailer house. Model A Ford in the background; logs, sandwich and canteen in foreground. The site is 3.5 miles up Shrine Pass and was known as Kelly's. It's...
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Abandoned Minturn Bus Line bus parked on the old road between Bells Camp and Red Cliff, October 1996. The Minturn Bus Line ran between Minturn and Gilman, taking workers to the Gilman mines. The Minturn Line was owned by Bert Winters. "The bus line between Red Cliff and Gilman was a separate entity, for a long time owned by Mr. Neff and, eventually, by Ralph Henderson." -- Bud Beck "Bud, Buster, our grandson, Conrad, and I walked the old road from...
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Several Red Cliff residents prospected uranium on Wilson Mesa, Utah, in 1953. Sitting around the breakfast table in the camp are, from front left: Jeff Taylor, Vic Chitwood, and Johnny Tetreault. At front right, Buster Beck, with two unidentified men standing. Jeff Taylor's grandsons currently [2010] mine uranium in Moab, Utah.
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Buster Beck below the silver mine emptying the "ore buckets" into a dump truck. "Since the mine was about 100 yards above the end of the road where we had to park the dump truck, we had to build an aerial tram to ge the ore down to the trucks. Don was able to find an old model A hand brake, some cable and some 5 gallon buckets and we were in business. We loaded our ore into the dump truck, hauled it off the mountain, down river to the railroad at...
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Mine on hillside, possibly Salida.
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Buster (on left) and Jack Beck sitting on a felled log at the upper Wearyman logging camp (Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill).
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Wedding photo of Joseph Henry Fear (04-01-1904 to 11-12-1995) and Johanna Kolenc Fear (10-21-1901 to 10-03-1972). They were married on June 26, 1927, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Leadville, Colorado. Joseph was born in Salida; Johanna was born in Leadville. The couple moved to Red Cliff in 1929. The groom is wearing a three-piece wedding suit and a boutonniere (the suit is now in the Red Cliff Museum). The bride is wearing a tea length beaded...
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Studio portrait of sisters Angela Fear [Beck] (born May 4, 1930) and Johanna Fear (born September 4, 1927; died January 1, 1937). Johanna, almost 4 yrs. old, is holding Angela's hand. Angela is 14 months old.
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A man, possibly Buster Beck, in snowfield with a cross-cut felling saw, possibly near Fancy Pass. "A felling saw is generally less stiff than a bucking saw and the backside, as well as the cutting side, is usually curved inward. Felling saws are more often used to cut down standing trees, so the thinner, lighter design is easier to use without gravity holding the blade against the cut." [http://www.fs.fed.us/t-d/pubs/htmlpubs/htm77712508/page03.htm]...
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Studio portrait of Sarah Jane Arthur Ellis, Mrs. Charles Ellis, who died on Dec. 28, 1920. She was grandmother to Earl Beck.