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Ray Miller (brown shirt) with horses that will pull the Continental Oil Company wagon during a 4th of July parade.
2. Freighters
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"A train of freight wagons like these were a common sight on the road between Wolcott and Routt County points, before the advent of the Moffatt Road. By traveling together freighters could lend assistance to one another in case of an equipment breakdown, encountering a mudhole or a steep grade, of which there were many. This photo was taken about a mile north west of McCoy, by A. B. Noyce of Steamboat Springs in the spring of 1903. The three freighters...
3. McCoy Lane
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McCoy Lane, McCoy, Colorado, looking East. A mix of automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles are on the streets.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
4. Loading wool
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Ranchers loading bags of wool at the depot in Eagle. Horse teams are dragging the skids.
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The Parachute Store, Doll Bros. & Smith, in Parachute, Colorado. The store is decorated for the 4th of July. People are standing on the boardwalk. Train is at left. Zachariah Doll was the Doll brother most involved with the store.
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Ranchers loading bags of wool at the depot in Eagle. Horse teams are dragging the skids.
Caption: "Loading part of $20,600 wool shipment from Eagle, Colorado."
7. Broadway
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Broadway in Eagle. The building on the right was built by the First National Bank of Eagle County. The two story half of the building was occupied by general merchandise stores (F. Hugus and Co.; later, the Lewis store); the one story side by the bank.
The line of wagons and carriages may be a parade.
Same as 1991.001.046 Photo only scanned once into Past Perfect.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Wagon loading/unloading goods in front of the Minturn Store. Several children, women and men are on the boardwalk in front of the store. Tent with sign ("Photographs") in between the store and the house on the right.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"At the time the mail route was still run by way of the McCoy ferry, Whipple purchased two Concord stages from a mail contractor in Oklahoma. The double-decker coaches were slung on heavy leather straps instead of strings. They could carry fifteen to twenty passengers as the above picture shows. The stage route came into being from Wolcott in 1887 and continued to operate for the next twenty years or more." -- The Gates Genealogy
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The stagecoach at Wolcott departing for Steamboat Springs. Passengers standing in front and seated on the coach. Saloon marked in background
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The morning after the 1899 fire in Gilman, which destroyed approximately half of the town. The Fleck Clothing Store is at the left of the photo and is marked with an "X". People standing survey the damage.
Caption on verso: "Shots to stop fire broke windows across the street."
12. Jack Beck
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Jack Beck using a horse to pull a log on upper Wearyman Creek for Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill.
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Horses pulling the Continental Oil Co. wagon during a 4th of July parade.
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Lettuce shed at Allentown, Colorado, near Edwards Colorado, 1939. Fort Tidwell Company is on the sign on top of the building.
[Title supplied from a catalog supplied by the Eagle County Historical Society]
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Gustav (Gust) Benson sitting on sled loaded with logs and pulled by a horse team. Benson worked at Benson's (no relation) sawmill at Pando.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
16. Early Gypsum
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Early Gypsum where tents provided original services: hotel, stores, saloon, restaurant. Meals at the Eagle Hotel were 35 cents, a bed was 25 cents. All of these services were located across from the train depot. The location is close to present day Railroad Ave. and Second Street.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Bruce Beck (left) and Ron Dump seated during a break while logging on Shrine Pass. The skid horse pulls the logs.
18. Trail ride
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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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Looking south down First Street toward Eagle Street in Gypsum circa 1905. The Travelers' Hotel is the second building from the left. There is a boardwalk between buildings.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Six men standing on the boardwalk in front of a store front in Red Cliff. Snow in the street is packed down and approximately 2.5 ft. higher than the boardwalk. A sled pulled by a horse team is standing on the street in front of the men. The Hall-Roberts Dry Goods store is at the left.