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The relief map photo used to visualize possible road routes and ascents for Mount of the Holy Cross pilgrimages, without O.W. Randall's annotations. [photographed from a different angle than 2013.009.018-.019, showing the Sawatach Range at left, the Cross Creek drainage, the Holy Cross Ridge, and the Gore Range at far right.
Stamped on back: "Quality BB Print guaranteed not to fade Jul 14 1928, 13"
The location of the map in this photo is unknown....
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Aerial photograph taken by Mayo Lanning on February 3, 1998. Looking west down the Eagle River Valley, following I-70.
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Gulling Offerson* with superimposed potatoes, one in wheelbarrow. Caption reads: "Harvesting potatoes. Avon, Colo. 1902." View of Beaver Creek Valley in background. Howard barn and old house visible on right (east) side of Beaver Creek (apparently the gable of the north/south wing of the Howard/Offerson house). Used in Beaver Creek: the first one hundred years, by June Simonton.
*verifed by Bill Christensen, great nephew of Gulling Offerson
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View of Brush Creek looking toward the Eagle River Valley 1979
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Aerial view of Gilman, Colorado, in the 1950s, looking down Rock Creek. The nose of the point was locally known as "Rocky Point," and for many years was the town dump. Rocky Point aims at Fall Creek, giving an idea of the terrain between Belden, in the Eagle River Valley below, and Lake Constantine..
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The Roaring Fork Valley in the 1940's. Mount Sopris is in the background. The Roaring Fork River goes through Pitkin, Eagle and Garfield Counties.
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A view of Brush Creek in 1979, looking toward the Eagle River Valley.
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"Lower end of Sheephorn Creek 1915. -- verso caption
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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View of Brush Creek looking toward the Eagle River Valley 1979
10. Homestake Roads
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A view of the Homestake Valley roads taken from Girard Creek.
11. Relief map
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The relief map used to visualize possible road routes and ascents for Mount of the Holy Cross pilgrimages. The notes in ink are in O. W. Randall's handwriting.
Stamped on back: "Quality BB Print guaranteed not to fade Jul 14 1928"
The location of the map in this photo is unknown. The Rev. John P. Carrigan, a Catholic priest from Glenwood Springs, is the reported inspiration for the Holy Cross pilgrimages. F. W. Bonfils, a Denver publisher, was...
12. Bishop Gulch
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Caption by O. W. Randall: "Bishop Gulch where the proposed auto road would go."
Stamped on back: "Quality BB Print guaranteed not to fade Jun 5 1928"
In 1927, Dr. Randall led Boy Scouts and Campfire Girls up Notch Mountain to see the cross, a trip considered to be the first "pilgrimage." In 1928, another pilgrimage took place and in 1929, President Hoover established the Mount of the Holy Cross Monument.
"All these pilgrimages continued to demonstrate...
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Looking down Rock Creek from Long Ridge, with McCoy area in the distance.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The verso of the relief map photo used to visualize possible road routes and ascents for Mount of the Holy Cross pilgrimages. The notes in pencil are in O. W. Randall's handwriting.
Stamped on back: "Quality BB Print guaranteed not to fade Jul 14 1928, 35"
The location of the map in this photo is unknown. The Rev. John P. Carrigan, a Catholic priest from Glenwood Springs, is the reported inspiration for the Holy Cross pilgrimages. F. W. Bonfils,...
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Verso: top=north; road goes to homesite; south the gravel pit in action; taken from little hill end of run way to the right"
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Verso: "ranch house first road across hay field. House is across the road to the north; top is west; Eagle County Airport at left"
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Red Cliff , circa 1890s, looking up the Eagle River. Photo taken as a postcard series: 667.
Caption on verso: "Red Cliff in Early Days, before 28 [possibly 08] Road was put through."
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The relief map photo used to visualize possible road routes and ascents for Mount of the Holy Cross pilgrimages, without O.W. Randall's annotations.
Stamped on back: "Quality BB Print guaranteed not to fade Jul 14 1928, 35"
The location of the map in this photo is unknown. The Rev. John P. Carrigan, a Catholic priest from Glenwood Springs, is the reported inspiration for the Holy Cross pilgrimages. F. W. Bonfils, a Denver publisher, was also...
19. Terrain
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Some of the terrain on the hike to the top of Notch Mountain that instigated the call for a road.
Stamped on back: "Quality BB Print guaranteed not to fade Jun 5 1928"
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Taken on 10/14/1968 Imogene Dice (left) and Florence Robertson (right) at her ranch near the mouth of Salt Creek in Brush Creek Valley. Imogene lived in a bungalow there.