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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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"M. H. [Martin H.] and Clara Waldo came to Brush Creek around 1902 and ranched across the creek from the Shryacks until 1917, when they retired in California. Tom Carlin bought the ranch, and subsequent owners were Hans and Thelma Larsen and Glenn and Denzel Norman." -- [History of Brush Creek p.26] The Waldo's had one daughter who married Ralph Wolverton. This couple had a son, Charles Wolverton.
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Marilyn Schrer, niece of Margie and Frank Haas, standing in the yard at the Sandstone Creek ranch [Vail]. [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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Chester Mayer standing behind family members at the Mayer ranch. From left to right: Shara Wise Davis, Cora Wise Mayer (Chet's mother), Bill Mayer (Chet's son), and Ruth Mayer (Chet's wife).
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John Walker and Allie Bailey standing outside in their yard at the Bailey Ranch.
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Wolverton residence on the Brush Creek ranch. Ralph Wolverton married M. H. and Clara Waldo's daughter.
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Bertha McCain holding baby Grace, standing next to an unidentified woman. They are in the yard in front of a log house.
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The original warming cabin across from the Whittaker Ranch ski tow. Mary Ann and Joe Carter used it as a summer home for three years before the ranch sold. They are sitting on the porch of the cabin in this photo.
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Sadie and Alec Macdonell at far right with three Benedictine sisters and an unidentified man, standing outside the Brush Creek rnach house. Dog in foreground. The photo was taken in August 1955.
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The Schlutter Place (previously Frost Place) on Brush Creek, purchased by Fred and Helen Dice in spring 1950. The farmhouse had been remodeled. Sign reads, "Pair O Dice Mesa, Fred Dice, Joe Dice."
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Kathy Schmidt and the old farmhouse.
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John Walker and Allie Bailey standing outside in their yard at the Bailey Ranch.