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"Colorado's big game season has been postponed a week, and ... will open Oct. 24 on the Western Slope and run thru Nov. 9. Postponement was at the request of federal and state land use agencies, who state the fire hazard is more acute this year than last year, and at an extremely high point." -- Eagle Valley Enterprise Oct. 8, 1953 p.1
The line of hunters trying to get elk licenses validated stretched for quite a way in front of the Eagle County...
3. Haas shed
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Haas shed at the Sandstone Creek ranch [Vail] with elk, gutted and hung, in the background. Elk racks in foreground. From L to R: Elmer Nelson, Mary Fanning, Margie Haas, Lena Storm, Mary Storm, Albert Nelson.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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John M. Ruder, at left, with his son, Ralph L. Ruder, on right, with bobcat.
Son of Jacob and Mary Buchholz Ruder [Mary was Nicholas Buchholz' sister], John was born Dec. 3, 1887, and came with his family to Eagle County in 1894. He lived most of his life on Gore Creek where the family homesteaded a ranch beginning in 1897.
Ralph L. Ruder, John and Edna Ruder's only child, was killed in a truck accident on Battle Mountain, December 18, 1961. He...
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Men at Haas Ranch [Sandstone Creek, Vail] getting ready to go elk hunting. Left to right: Jim Fanning, Oscar Nelson's back, Mary Fanning. The lumber from Haas barn in the background was later used in the construction of the first restaurant in Vail.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
6. Bear hunting
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Brothers Jack (L) and George (R) Elliott posing with deer after hunting. The deer are laid out across a saw horse, figles leaning again the carcasses. A dog is in the foreground.
The cabin in the background is the first log cabin built in Red Cliff. William Greiner and Gilbert DaLee built it in approximately 1876.
Jack would have been 19 years old and George would have been 17 years old in this photo.
13. Fritz Arendt
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"The John Ambos homestead cabin, built in 1903. This photo, taken in 1909, shows Fritz Arendt who was batching in it, his dogs and an assortment of firearms. Fritz, an early day ranch hand, hunter, trapper, Game Warden and poacher left the McCoy area for Utah about 1911 and never returned. The cabin was demolished in 1912 and the salvaged material used for other purposes." --McCoy Memoirs, p. 238
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the...