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Albert Buffehr standing on sled, holding the reins to a four-horse team. The caption reads "log hauling out of Mill Creek." Albert and his wife, Violet, lived in Minturn and later moved to Edgewater, Colorado. Both are buried in Minturn.
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Gustav (Gust) Benson sitting on sled loaded with logs and pulled by a horse team. Benson worked at Benson's (no relation) sawmill at Pando. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Mildred and Everett Howard at their Bachelor Gulch home on a load of logs from McCoy Park. The load is on a sled pulled by a 2-horse team. Mildred is seated and Everett is standing holding the reins to the horse team. The sled bobs with bolsters are clearly visible. Mertz cabin in left background; Howard house in right background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Everett Howard holding the reins of his horse team (Don and Chubb, as identified by Mamie Rodgers) while standing on timber sled. The sled is empty. Caption reads "after unloading logs at depot." Snow on the ground. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Jack Nye and the Fleming Lumber Company team in front the Burbank house in Red. Cliff. "The Frank Burbank home--an early day landmark in Red Cliff was burned to the ground Monday evening--the third disastrous fire in that Eagle County town in as many months. The home was owned by a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Burbank, Eleanor McIlnay and her husband, Ira. Mrs. McIlnay said there was no way to how how the blaze started....The Red Cliff firemen...
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"In February of 1933 there was no snow at the John Ambos sawmill on the east rim of Rock Creek Canyon and very little anywhere in the McCoy area, for that matter. But a year later, there was plenty of it. The A frame just to the right of the mill shed, supports a heavy aerial cable that Frank Haddon had stretched across the canyon for a log hoisting operation in 1930 which was a dismal failure." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.245 [Title supplied from catalog...