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From left, Clark and Walter Gates going on a camping and hunting trip. Clark is "probably scanning the countryside for elk." -- The Gates Genealogy
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A camping trip with buckboard and tent. Dessie is in white at the right; Earl is fence sitting at far left. Another couple is with them and there's a buckboard in the center of the scene.
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From left, Clark Gates, Bert Gates (standing) and cousin Walter Gates cooking during a hunting trip. Pork and Beans were definitely on the menu.
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Campsite with tent at far right, clothes drying on bushes, and dog keeping guard.
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"These hunters were camped on Black Creek, ten miles north-east of McCoy in 1912. They are: Rudolph Ebert, Carl Schrupp, Ernest Werner and Fritz Arendt. The photo by Martin Schomers. At that date, it's doubtful if any one of the group possessed a hunting license. Note the grouse hanging on the tree, one of the reasons that grouse, once so plentiful in those days, are so scarce now." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.11 Photo postcard. [Title supplied from...
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Logging camp up Wearyman Creek.
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Walter (left) and Clark Gates, cousins, standing by a campfire. Walter frequently visited his cousins, coming from Nebraska in the summertime.
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Hunting party on the Flat Tops near Trappers Lake. A mounted hunter, possibly Jake Borah, is standing by the cook stove. Hanging deer are in right background.
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From left, Walter and Clark Gates going on a camping and hunting trip.
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Members of the Fenno family sharing a picnic at Squaw Creek. A camp fire is at leaft and four children are sitting with two women on the ground; two men stand in the background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Campfires, tents, campers and horses at Tigiwon. [The number 25 is written on the upper left margin of the photo.]
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Logging camp up Wearyman Creek.
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Pilgrims gathered around a campfire at the Tigiwon Post Office, sometime between 1929 and 1934. Caption by O. W. Randall: "These were times when we had no Community House." The Tigiwon Post Office was established June 5, 1929. "By 1934 the U.S. Forest Service had built the long-awaited trail up Notch Mountain, first used by the seventh pilgrimage that year. A lodge [Community House] at Tigiwon was also completed by 1934." -- Robert Brown, Holy Cross--the...
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Don Knight, seated in front of a tent, putting on his boots. Campfire with utensils in foreground. Caption on verso: "French Creek 1939" "Access Gold Park, Holy Cross City on Forest Service Road 703. Holy Cross City via Gold Park is a one-way road. Or, from the Missouri Lake Trail head to French Creek, use Forest Service Road 727. The road to Holy Cross City used to be a good road. We drove up it all the time. Now, Buster [Beck] said, it is...
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From left, Buster Beck, Durbin McIlnay, and Frank Robinson at a logging camp on the upper Wearyman Creek.
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Hunting party on the Flat Tops near Trappers Lake, outfitted by Jake Borah. John Condon is seated second from right at the camp table on the right, facing the camera. Camp fire and stove are at center. Clothes drying on bushes at left.
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Perlita Knight [Gauthier] working at a table while camping at French Creek. Tent in background.
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Pilgrims gathered around a campfire at the Tigiwon Post Office, sometime between 1929 and 1934. Dr. Randall is seated facing the camera at far right. Caption by O. W. Randall: "21. Campfire at night, Tigiwon." The Tigiwon Post Office was established June 5, 1929. "By 1934 the U.S. Forest Service had built the long-awaited trail up Notch Mountain, first used by the seventh pilgrimage that year. A lodge [Community House] at Tigiwon was also completed...
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"Campfire Girl Sadie Figgins" (Caption from photo)