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A view of Main Street with J. B. Dowd ["Day Goods, Gents Furnishings, Boots and Shoes"] on the left. Nine people are standing on the shoveled board walk in front of the store. Man on a horse is in the street, standing on several feet of unplowed snow. Red Rock Store and Home Restaurant are visible across the street. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Everett Howard holding the reins of his horse team (Don and Chubb, as identified by Mamie Rodgers) while standing on timber sled. The sled is empty. Caption reads "after unloading logs at depot." Snow on the ground. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Sometimes winter travel was very hard on both animals and humans." -- The Gates Genealogy
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Horse team and wagon in winter, hauling hay to cattle on the Schlutter Place, Brush Creek, Colorado. Ranch house in left background.
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Horse used by loggers to pull logs out of the standing timber.
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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.
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Greg Knight feeding the horses on the Schmidt ranch.
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Victor Dump at the reins of the horse team and Otto Bergman sitting on lumber from the Fleming Lumber mill. The lumber is on a skid drawn by a horse team. "The breast strap of the team is threaded through both rings, with the pole strap loop captured between them. This arrangement virtually eliminates the tendency for the end ring sleeve to be pulled off the end of the neckyoke. Simple, but good insurance." -- Stu Dykstra [Title supplied from catalog...
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Red Cliff with snow on the ground. Red Cliff Garage is in midground, horse standing at right midground. Highway into town in background.
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"Building our highway" - caption from Edwards School Scrapbook, page 16. The scrapbook was completed as a youth citizens' league project between 1954-1955. This could be construction of Highway 6, the first major byway to cross Eagle County. A large excavator with one man in control awaits more digging, two other men with shovels are digging by hand. A horse team is visible at right, center, with a wagon behind them. The excavator is resting on...
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Byron McGinnis moving cattle below the Howe homestake cabin on Bellyache during the tour. A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
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Horsemen Byron McGinnis (left) and Carl Gray drive cattle on Bellyache during the tour. A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
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Carl Gray of Eagle moving cattle below the Howe homestake cabin on Bellyache during the tour. A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
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Shared marker for: "Hayes, Lula M., 1916- and Jack G., 1914-1983," Greenwood Cemetery. A mountain scene is engraved on the marker with pines, a riderless horse, an eagle, clouds and snow.
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Looking west on Water Street, Red Cliff, Colorado, in the winter. The horses and corral were the property of the Fleming Lumber Company; framing house on the right hand side of the street. First house on the left belonged to Tom Collins; second house was Earl Beck's. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Jack Beck standing behind a log which the horse is pulling through the snow.
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"In February of 1933 there was no snow at the John Ambos sawmill on the east rim of Rock Creek Canyon and very little anywhere in the McCoy area, for that matter. But a year later, there was plenty of it. The A frame just to the right of the mill shed, supports a heavy aerial cable that Frank Haddon had stretched across the canyon for a log hoisting operation in 1930 which was a dismal failure." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.245 [Title supplied from catalog...

38. Cabins

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Caption reads "Cabins at Sweetwater Lake" although this may not match the actual location. (Leadville?) There are nine men in the photograph-- two are standing on either side of the main cabin at center with the door open. Both wagons are full.
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Alfred Borah drives a team of horses through some deep snow on Brush Creek. The two horses are Leta and Dock, and were owned by Alfred Borah
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Elffeda "Fleda" Biglow sits atop a horse in deep snow.