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41) Shipping pens
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Moving cattle into the shipping pens at Wolcott, Colorado, to wait for the train.
"Daddy Frank also told "Bud" that the first time he could remember going to Wolcott, he was about 5 years old. The cowboys ran their horses down the street shooting their guns. He was so frightened he hid behind his mother's skirt (Grandmother "Nona" Gates). Bet Grandmother was rather uneasy herself." -- The Gates Genealogy
42) Ambos Homestead
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"No doubt, quite a number of ranchers still living will remember that Grandaddy of all winters, 1919-1920 when stockmen were forced to start feeding hay a month earlier than usual and only a very few had enough feed to see their stock through the winter and a late, late Spring. Several cattlemen of the McCoy area were out of hay before the first of April, when there was still from twelve to thirty inches of snow on the ground. Rather than seeing their...
43) Round up
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"This picture shows rounding up the cattle to start the long trip to the railroad yards. Uncle Orris Albertson said that Grandpa "Bert" Gates could drive cattle anywhere. He must have been quite a cowboy." -- The Gates Genealogy
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Lee Johnson and Ed, his brother. The Johnson Brothers began buying registered Herefords in 1906 and handled range cattle, as well. They increased their land holdings, including the Sherman Brothers ranch east of Eagle in 1919, to become the largest owners of irrigated farm land in the county.
Ed Johnson ran the ranch and Lee Johnson had the transport company out of Longmont.
They dispersed the herd in 1922-23. Ed Johnson went to Raton, New Mexico,...
45) Lloyd Ranch
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"Cowboys work steers in a corral at the Lloyd ranch. The ranch brand was a 'Diamond J Bar.' The property is currently the site of the Diamond Star subdivision." -- Early Eagle, by Kathy Heicher, p.89
46) 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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"Charley McCoy's Upper Place in 1930.The original log house was destroyed by fire in 1927 or 1928 and the frame house was built shortly afterwards. This picture shows some of Charley McCoy's top grade of cattle. Besides the cattle and the one saddle horse, at least seven men and boys are visible just to the left of the barn some of whom were probably members of the Dutch Laman family who were living on the ranch at that time." -- McCoy Memoirs p.108
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48) Horn Ranch
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"The Horn ranch house on Rock Creek, two and one half miles above McCoy, as it was in 1917. Homesteaders Alvin Hart and Rooks built the cabin with the fireplace, the rest was added on by the Horns. The two bedrooms upstairs and the ground floor was the living room, the fireplace room served as a bunkhouse for ranch hands. Shortly after Arthur Horn's death, Mrs. Horn had that part of the building removed. The Pete Horn family lived here from 1890 to...
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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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Rudy Olin portraying Charley Johnson during the Gypsum Cemetery Tour July 16, 2011. The tour was sponsored by the Town of Gypsum in celebration of Gypsum's Centennial, held July 9-17, 2011. The Porchlight Players, a local drama group, portrayed interesting citizens of the town buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Charley (Charles H.) Johnson died about July 26, 1901. He was a Dotsero cattleman who was murdered by a gunshot to the back of the head...
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"Sheephorn Creek, 1915. Spring branding on the Clarence Rundell ranch. Left to right: CHarley Gutzler, Carl Forster, Frank McMillan, Bill Tester, Clarence Rundell, Dr. Sidell and Ward Ross." -- McCoy Memoirs p.317
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Interior of the Howe cabin, restored by Jack Oleson. Jack created the "stove" from actual stove parts and a wooden box.
A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
53) Horn Ranch
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Photo postcard of the Horn Ranch on Rock Creek, Table Rock in the background. Taken by John Ambos in 1916, it shows cattle feeding on a snowy field with a log structure at left midfield.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The John Winslow Ranch on Cottonwood Creek, Sheephorn 1914." -- verso caption
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Photo postcard looking northeast of James E. Ullman's Castle Peak Ranch in Eagle. Ullman bought the ranch from John Carey in September 1919 for $28,000. It included ninety acres of farming land in the home place and included summer range on Castle. [EVE Sept. 19, 1919 p.1]
The ranch was purchased by Holly Brooks in 1931.
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Two unidentified riders with rifles across their saddles at the Doll Brothers Ranch. Fencing and cattle behind them. It's possible that the man on the left is Mr. Stone, livestock foreman on the Doll ranch.
The Chicago photo studio mark infers that the photos were those of John Condon, Doll Brothers' partner, developed after a visit to the ranch.
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Three men seated in a field with 2 dogs in front of the Doll Brothers' Ranch. They are probably members of the Doll family. Lucy Doll wearing coat and shawl, stands behind them. Barns, farmhouse and outbuildings shown with cattle grazing at left background.
59) Peaceful pasture
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This photograph is featured on a page with others under the title "Fine Peaceful Pasture" in the Edwards School Scrapbook, page 15. The scrapbook was completed as a youth citizens' league project between 1954-1955.
A cow with a bridle can be seen grazing between the aspens. The photograph is damaged and cracked, an example of how detrimental heavyweight paper can be to aging photographs.
