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Ski tow warming house located across from the tow on the Whittaker Ranch. It was built at the same time the ski tow was put in. Gordon Whittaker had it built; Purley Bertrock may have been the actual builder. The original roof was flatter.
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Mary Ann and Joe Carter in the drive in front of the original warming house at the Whittaker Ski tow. They made the house their summer home for three years before the sale of the ranch. Cars, campers, and playground equipment in the background.
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Skiers on Whittaker Hill (Bruce Creek, off Brush Creek) with cattle in the background. Ping's photo finishing date Oct. 24, 1939.
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Photo of Eagle Baseball Team, championship game 1928 (?); six players seated on bench, four players standing behind. Bleachers visible in background.
Front row (L to R): Allen Clark, C &CF; Harry Saltzgaver, RF & 3rd B; Fred West, 3rd B; Joe LeDonne C; Bill Subry, P; Carl Lloyd, 2d B.
Back row (L to R): Gordon Whittaker, LF; Rusty Switzler, CF; Bert Hitt, 1st B; Dick Hotter, SS. Harry Lewis, 1st B and John Lewis, LF are not in the picture but played...
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The ski tow warming house located across from the tow on the Whittaker Ranch. The paint was added in 1989 by Joe Carter. Joe also added a small bathroom. Joe and Mary Ann Carter lived in the cabin for three summers until the ranch was sold.
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The town of Elkhorn, Colorado, south of Eagle, Colorado.
In 1912, George Guenon found some rock samples around Horse Mountain that promised silver and showed them to Ocar Kempf. Kempf staked the area behind Guenon's back and a rush to prospect was started. "Rows of cabins, houses, a saloon, and a boarding and rooming house were built on land belonging to Charles Zartman. A mine, named for Mrs. Kempf --the "Lady Bell"--became the main scene of...
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Mid-1950s photo of the Eagle ski tow, located above Sunset View Cemetery in Eagle, Colorado, on the Cole Black Ranch. Some call the ski hill "Cemetery Hill."
The boy standing on the top of the mountain looking at the camera, in the black coat, is Skip (Melvin) Chambers, son of Glen Chambers. Immediately below him on the hill in the reddish sweater is John Buchholz. The girl farthest down the hill in the red sweater is Susan Koonce.
The ski tow,...
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Original ski tow location on Whittaker Ranch. Three elk are standing at the bottom of the hill.
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The warming house across from the ski tow on Whittaker Ranch, Bruce Creek. The cabin was used by Mary Ann Whittaker Carter and Joe Carter as a summer home in the 1980s before the ranch sold.
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LaVeta and Gordon Whittaker at their ranch on Bruce Creek. The old ski tow location is behind them, along with cattle.
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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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The original ski tow location on Whittaker Ranch, Bruce Creek. The tow was later moved to Eagle.
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The original ranch house on the Whittaker Ranch, built by Charles Zartman (circa 1906). The ski tow warning house is in the left background.
