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The bridge over Brush Creek at Waldo's ranch
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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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From left to right, George, Marg and Ethel Mary Macdonell on horseback, standing in a corral.
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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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Alec Macdonell, born in Beauly, Scotland, with one of his Scottish longhorned cattle. "Highland cattle or kyloe are an ancient Scottish breed of beef cattle with long horns and long wavy coats which are coloured black, brindled, red, yellow or dun. The breed developed in the Scottish Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland. Breeding stock has been exported to the rest of the world, especially Australia and North America, since the early 20th Century....
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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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Threshing on the Wolverton ranch.
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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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Stacking hay on the Chester Mayer Ranch (Eagle, Colorado), not the Eagle Ranch subdivision on Brush Creek. The hay was lifted to the top of the stack by a "Mormon Derrick," a weight and pulley arrangement using a crane. The derrick is in the center of the photo with horse teams and rakes "pushing" hay to the loading area. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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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The Kilgore property on Brush Creek is in the foreground; in the backgound are horses hauling a load to market.
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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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Binding oats on the Wolverton ranch, using a three-horse team. Charles Wolverton is standing behind the binder.
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Steer in cattle chute being branded. Another lined up, waiting his turn.
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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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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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A line camp above the Chester Mayer ranch on the west range during summer grazing.
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Skiers on Whittaker Hill (Bruce Creek, off Brush Creek) with cattle in the background. Ping's photo finishing date Oct. 24, 1939.