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Barn in upper Bachelor Gulch (Howard property). The log structure is surrounded by a log fence. Discarded items in foreground. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Storage building on the Brett Ranch, mouth of Lake Creek, Edwards. Scrap lumber at left of building. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"The Horn ranch house on Rock Creek, two and one half miles above McCoy, as it was in 1917. Homesteaders Alvin Hart and Rooks built the cabin with the fireplace, the rest was added on by the Horns. The low building on the right was the kitchen, the two story addition had two bedrooms upstairs and the ground floor was the living room, the fireplace room served as a bunkhouse for ranch hands. Shortly after Arthur Horn's death, Mrs. Horn had that...
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Wiltshire (Eaton) place, with the house built by Anthony Smith (confirmed as his residence by Marie Mayne). House is in midground with barn and outbuildings in the left background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The interior of a blacksmith shop with two men working at center. "The photograph was taken in the late 1800s in my great-granddad's first homestead which is now known as Castle Peak Ranch. The ranch that the family currently owns north of the original homestead were homesteads of my grandfather Joh, my dad and his sister Beaulah." -- John Buchholz July 5, 2000
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"An early day barn on the Wash Holland ranch at Wolcott, Colorado." -- McCoy Memoirs p.332 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Gulling Offerson loading hay into barn on bench above Beaver Creek. A two horse team, left foreground, is being used while a team of mules is visible in the left background. The mules are pulling the cables that are lifting the load of hay to the top of the stack. The view is looking east with the Avon "gypsum cliffs" to the left. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Barn on the Crawford place, built in 1913, in El Jebel.
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"Sheephorn ranch, Eagle Co Colo." Photo postcard showing ranch house, outhouse and barn in background.
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The Albert Betz Ranch, Gore Valley, viewed from Gore Creek. Buildings in the background are Fleming's Saw Mill. This is current day Vail, Colorado. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Beaver near Eagle River. Lettuce shed and railroad siding in background. View is looking to the northeast at Swift Gulch from Emmett Nottingham's old place at Avon. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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 view across the Offerson property, looking uphill toward the potato cellar. There is a large, snow covered pine tree in the foreground and snow on the ground. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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A pregnant Blanche Wyatt Kavanaugh leans against a building. She is wearing a coat open over a dress. Various ranch buildings are in the background. A wagon with hay is at midground, pitchfork leaning against the side.
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Commissary on Benton Ranch in Burns, Colorado. This building was used from 1912 to 1970 to hold food supplies for ranch hands. View shows the two story building with upper porch. Rail fence evident at midground. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Ellis "Bearcat" Bearden, rancher in the Squaw Creek Valley until his death in 1993. "The equestrian center at Cordillera bears his name and is located on the land his family homesteaded when Bearcat was just a toddler. The humble log buildings the family used as their ranching headquarters still stand, and are targeted for preservation by the Cordillera Preservation Foundation. Bearcat Springs, a small tributary to Squaw Creek, also carries his...

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Rundell ranch with house at right, barns and corrals at left. .
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Milk shed on the Crawford place, built in 1910, in El Jebel.
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"Tom Wohler standing in front of his barn in 1912. The Wohler ranch had a first class set of ranch buildings and fences that Tom kept in good repair until a year or so before he passed away." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 131 "Fritz, Tom and Sarah Wohler came to Colorado from Pennsylvania in 1876 and settled at Leadville for 18 years. Tom was shift boss at the Johnny Mine and Sarah had a dress shop. They were married in Leadville in 1883. In 1895 Tom and...
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"The buildings on the Lyon Hidden Valley Ranch are in a much better state of repair than any of the other deserted ranches in Yarmony Park, mainly due to the fact that it was occupied the longest. The road to the former John Hudson ranch a mile and a half distant goes through the gap on the left." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 279 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]