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1) 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.]
2) 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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Tinted photo postcard 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. Stremme's Store and Post Office is at the far right. [Original photo 1998.001.024]
Gypsum store owner Theodore Stremme had this postcard produced by Newvochrome [No. D 3341 printed in Germany]. It was sent May 1, 1909, to Mr. F. B. Cowden in Steamboat...
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Main Street in Red Cliff (possibly 1892-1907), storefronts visible for bakery and restaurant, general mercantile ("boots and shoes made to order") and Quartzite Hotel. A wagon and horse team are parked in left foreground. The street is not paved and appears to be muddy.
"The Quartzite Hotel (sign atop building behind the flag pole on the right) was run, and presumably, owned by the William Greiners for several years between 1900 and 1910. This...
