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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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Kilgore property with Brush Creek in the background, c. 1916-17. Haystack and automobile in left of photo.
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Snowy day at the Beecher Gulch Place. Dixie the horse in front of barn; dogs, Boots and Rex in front of a 1937 Hudson Terraplane automobile. House in right midground.
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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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Front view of the Newquist Family cabin. Log construction with roof collapsing. Sagebrush surrounding the site. A spring was located on the slope below the cabin; water was hauled up to the cabin routinely.
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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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Taken from the hill above the Newquist Family log cabin, the deterioration of the roof structure and back wall is clearly visible. Additional structure visible in left background is a root cellar.
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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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Dan Rule and steer, Brush Creek [Photo developed Oct. 12, 1941, Ping's Station, Eagle, Colorado]
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Dan Rule and steer, Brush Creek [Photo developed Oct. 12, 1941, Ping's Station, Eagle, Colorado]
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View of Brush Creek looking toward the Eagle River Valley 1979
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Jane and Joe Dice next to a woman with baby and a boy on the last day of school. Jane is standing in front of an automobile, eating something, while Joe is seated on the bumper, wearing a cowboy outfit. The driver's side door of the car is open.
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Dan (right) and Larry Rule, showing cattle. [Photo developed Jan. 23, 1941, Ping's Station, Eagle, Colorado]
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Five generations of women in one family, probably taken at the "Halfway House," once on the Fulford Ranch, about .5 mile north of the forks. 1. Elizabeth Halloran; 2. Sarah Jane Fulford; 3. Adelaide Morgan; 4. Nettie Peterson; 5. Lillian Peterson [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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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Looking up West Brush Creek at the Sawatch Range south of Eagle, Colorado. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Nellie Abrams, daughter of Loyal Abrams, granddaughter of Mary Jennie Abrams, standing in front of log cabin
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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.]