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Tailgate lunch being served by Rae Benton and Mildred Toomer (on right) during the cattle drive.
"At noon, more ranchers' wives drive up. Rae Benton and Mildred Toomer (Wiss' wife) each have a carload of lunch fixins. They're accompanied by Frieda Lowe, and Linda Rasmuson of Albuquerque."
Heicher, Kathy. The Cattle Drive: Burns Hole cowboys mix tradition and technology. Photographer Mike Rawlings. Vail Trail, November 24, 1989, p.16-19.
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Sitting on a rail after the work is done.
Heicher, Kathy. The Cattle Drive: Burns Hole cowboys mix tradition and technology. Photographer Mike Rawlings. Vail Trail, November 24, 1989, p.16-19.
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Herding the cattle through a series of pens, alleys, and gates, finally getting them in single file.
Heicher, Kathy. The Cattle Drive: Burns Hole cowboys mix tradition and technology. Photographer Mike Rawlings. Vail Trail, November 24, 1989, p.16-19.
124) Boots
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A pair of authentic cowboy boots, photographed at the Burns stockyard pens.
Heicher, Kathy. The Cattle Drive: Burns Hole cowboys mix tradition and technology. Photographer Mike Rawlings. Vail Trail, November 24, 1989, p.16-19.
125) Lunch break
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Lunch break at noon, prepared by the ranchers' wives. From left to right: John Benton, Jill Schlegel, Bill Schlegel, and Keith Scott.
Heicher, Kathy. The Cattle Drive: Burns Hole cowboys mix tradition and technology. Photographer Mike Rawlings. Vail Trail, November 24, 1989, p.16-19.
126) Two graves
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Mary Wurtsmith examines two graves near Burns, Colorado in 1989. The graves are across the road and up the hill from the Detwiller place, four miles N.E. of Burns on county road 301. The surrounding fence has collapsed
One grave is marked "McMillan-Maida," born Julyl 4, and died September, 14 months later from eating chokecherries probably pits and all. She was Joe Albertson's mother's sister, Joe's aunt.
The other is marked "Francis Maley," who...
127) Captain Tippett
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Captain Tippett's Grave near Burns, Colorado. Two steel posts and an upright rock mark the sight.
128) Captain Tippett
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Captain Tippett's grave near John Benton's house in 1989. Captain Tippet served in the Civil War.
129) Mary Wurtsmith
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Mary Wurtsmith at the McMillan/Maley gravesite in 1989, near Burns, Colorado.
130) Natural stone marker
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Grave "two tenths of a mile up the road to the John Benton house, on the right just off the road. Natural stone faces 'Castle' [peak]. No one seems to know who is buried here." -- Mildred Toomer
131) Natural stone marker
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Another view of the gravesite facing Castle Peak near the Benton house, Burns, Colorado.
132) John Walker Bailey
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John Walker Bailey seated in front of a hay stacker with two dogs at his feet. He has a pitchfork in his right hand. A child is watching him.
133) Ed and Ollie Bailey
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Ollie and Ed Bailey are seated at a table in the Bailey Ranch house at Burns, Colorado. There is a meal on the table. Ollie Lucy Baker is Ed's first wife. (Ed was the son of John Walker Bailey.) Ed and Ollie had a son, Harold, and a daughter, Lois. Ed divorced Ollie and remarried.
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The original Bailey homestead house with the new addition on the front.
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John Walker and Allie Bailey standing outside in their yard at the Bailey Ranch.
136) Captain Tippett
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Captain Tippett's gravesite in 1989. He was a captain during the Civil War; the grave was marked with two steel posts and an upright rock.
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Fargo and Richards/Richardson gravesites near Burns, Colorado, in 1989.
138) Drowning
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Tree that marked the final resting place of a Navajo Indian who was working for the D& RGW Railroad and was drowned in the river. A wooden cross marking the grave was placed in the dead tree, but was not evident in 1989.
140) Fargo and Richards
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Two graves in the Burns area, up Fargo Gulch (left side of County Road 39). One grave marked "Fargo" and the other is "Richards," or possibly "Richardson."
Fargo broke both legs crossing the gulch sitting on just the running gears...no bed or box on the wagon. He died of gangrene.
Richards (or Richardson) was killed trying to break an outlaw horse at the Newcomer Place, located at the top of Burns Hill.
Both graves are marked with natural rock on...
