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Emma Newby Edwards and Alta Edwards [Bush Holland], Emma's sister-in-law, waiting for a race to start. Both women are on horseback, Emma on Lady, Alta on Pinto.
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Emma Mae Newby, Esther Edwards Rogers' mother, on horseback, Bellyache Mountain. Emma Newby was Joseph T. (Tera aka Terry) Miller's stepdaughter. Her father died when she was 5. Caption: "She was sure going high and crooked." "I am not sure of the dates my family came to Eagle, but checking online homestead and census records, I found the Edwards family in the 1910 census in Colorado Springs and in 1919 to 1922 in Eagle County homestead records. I...
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A trail ride, possibly led by Edith Eidem, at Lucky G.J. Ranch. Margaret Smith, Edith Eidem, and Delia Bridget O'Callaghan, three WW II ex-Wacs, bought the Ranch in February 1947 from Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stewart. They operated the 300-acre ranch as a dude ranch. There was a thirty-two room ranch house that they cleaned up and then they added cabins and worked fields. Gene Godat worked as their hunting guide for tourists. Gene and Fawntella Godat...
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Emma Mae Newby on horseback. Snow on Bellyache Mountain. Emma taught school at the little log school house on Bellache.
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"Ready to leave the Cow Camp for Castle Rock Look Out Station. The extra horse was mine as I took all the pictures" - from Alda Borah, 1918. Faces are numbered as follows: 1) Leo Carey; 2) William Long; 3) Harry Woods; 4) Marion Mayer; 5) Marion Dickerson; 6) Mrs. Dickinson; 7) Earl Carey; 8) Mayme Long; 9) Miss Fleming; 10) Beulah Buchholz; 11) Mr. Dickinson; 12) Dorothy Shyrack; 13) Herman Stein; 14) Miss Fleming; 15) --- Mayer; 16) Carl Mayer;...
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A postcard to Miss Alda Borah, postmarked December 3, 1914 from Vivian Maudie Hodges: "Hello Alda: How is this. I think its dandy of Billie but I look frightful. With love, Vivian Maudie Hodges".
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"From left, Minnie Ambos, Mae Grimes and school teacher Kate Pound about to leave the Ambos Ranch and pay a visit to Huldah Hadley, who lived on the west side of Rock Creek Canyon [Volcano]." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 243 The photo is dated Dec. 29, 1912. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Mary O. Adams Buchholz is holding the reins, sitting sidesaddle on a horse. She wears a hat, scarf and riding gloves. The horse has a white blaze on the forehead. They are posing on a trail, in front of a rock outcropping. Mary was a niece of U.S. President John Quincy Adams. She married Nick Buchholz in 1866. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]