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Grant Deeble and Joe Dice standing next to horses in front of the bunk house at the Schlutter Place. Flat bed wagon is on the right, hay wagon is at left foreground. Taken during hunting season.
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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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Fred Dice holding milk bucket. Faye Dice has her right arm wrapped around her father's neck. Marie Deeble is standing to Fred's right. Dog in right foreground. Bunk house in background (Schlutter Place, Brush Creek).
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Sadie Macdonell and Alex (at right) playing cards with a friend in their house at Brush Creek.
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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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"M. H. [Martin H.] and Clara Waldo came to Brush Creek around 1902 and ranched across the creek from the Shryacks until 1917, when they retired in California. Tom Carlin bought the ranch, and subsequent owners were Hans and Thelma Larsen and Glenn and Denzel Norman." -- [History of Brush Creek p.26]
The Waldo's had one daughter who married Ralph Wolverton. This couple had a son, Charles Wolverton.
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Side view of the cabin behind the Schlutter house in summer. Visitors stayed here. Porch is on right. Barbed wire fence in foreground.
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Alec/Ackie and Sadie Macdonell formall attired standing at the north side of their ranch house on Brush Creek.
9) Dice Place
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The old Dice place up west Brush Creek. Barn, house and outbuildings are visible from the road through the fenceline. Road is not paved.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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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Jean and Alvin Kilgore's property on Brush Creek. Supplies ready to build a house are stacked in the center of the photo. Fence and gate entrance already constructed.
12) Sneve Ranch
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The William Johnson Ranch, formerly the Anthony Sneve Ranch on West Brush Creek. The patent on the ranch was established in 1911. The ranch was purchased by Edna Chambers in 1935. Chambers in turn sold the property to William S. and Nora Johnson in 1938. It is now the site for Sylvan Lake State Park. [A History of Sylvan Lake State Park, by Kathy Heicher]
13) Town of Eagle
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The town of Eagle taken from the Eby Creek area. Highway 6 runs through the photo, with the major main street, Broadway, at center, dead-ending into Chester Mayer's ranch (now the Bull Pasture and Eagle Ranch subdivisions). Chambers Ranch is at the lower right corner, the big white barn now housing the Eagle County Historical Society Museum. The Eagle River runs from left to right with the railroad bridge over the river at midground. Brush Creek...
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Wolverton residence on the Brush Creek ranch. Ralph Wolverton married M. H. and Clara Waldo's daughter.
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Brush Creek Valley, 1916. Two groups of buildings, fenced pasture and Brush Creek visible with Bellyache Mountain in the background.
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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.
17) Working cows
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Working cows on the old Frost Place, also the Schlutter Place (Pair o Dice Mesa). Faye Dice (named after Helen Faye Dice) sitting on cattle chute. Barns and corrals are now gone (2007).
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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 ranch house on the Whittaker Ranch, built by Charles Zartman (circa 1906). The ski tow warning house is in the left background.
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Sadie and Alec Macdonell at far right with three Benedictine sisters and an unidentified man, standing outside the Brush Creek rnach house. Dog in foreground. The photo was taken in August 1955.
