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Shortly after they were married, Jack and Martha Sigler came out from Denver and homesteaded land in the Volcano area. Their first abode was a cellar or dug-out at an abandoned railroad construction camp, but later they buit this house north of Volcano, one section at a time. Like many other homesteaders, their lives were much too short to see their dreams fulfilled." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 304
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The first dwelling on the Kayser desert claim was a tent and it was 1909 or 1910 before this house was built by a Mr. Freeman for Joe Kayser. A number of transients lived in it before members of the Kayser family. Of those, Ralph occupied it the longest. It is presently the home of the Raymond Horn family." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.229
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Andrew Christensen's house in west Eagle. Today located across Highway 6 off Brooks Lane near the Fishing for Fun Bridge in West Eagle. Christensen was a major cattle producer in the area.
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An unidentified man is leveling field previously plowed, probably disced and/or harrowed. Level or "drag" on which he is standing carries a small amount of soil with it that is shaved off the high places, and then if leaks out underneath into the low places to create a uniform (or level) slope so that irrigation water flows uniformly. Is used only on irrigated ground. Judgement of operator had large influence on success. He is on the Dice Ranch,...
45) Kibbler place
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"House on the former Kibbler place on the Grand River. There have been a number of changes made in its desgn since Sam built it in 1908, but otherise it is about the same. Occupants after Kibblers were the Hugh Norman family, Harry and Jessie Groh, Donothans and, presently, the Settlemeyers." -- McCoy Memoirs p.138
Date conflicts with the date in 1992.004C.086
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"Just across Rock Creek Canyon from the Ebert place on Conger Mesa, Bert Hadley took up a 160 acre homestead and built this house on it in 1905. Prior to that year, he had married Huldah LaForce and they had spent a part of their honeymoon on the former Milby Frazer place at the head of Egeria Canyon. Bert, who was in poor health, did not live long enough to realize his dream of transforming the homestead into a cattle ranch. After his death, about...
47) Rundell Family
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Clarence and Phoebe French Rundell with children, Ernest and Helen. They are seated outside the house on the Sheephorn Creek ranch.
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Lou Clark (Layman), approximately 15 years old, on horse, Daisy, in front of the Clark house. The log house at the foot of Squaw Creek was the Clark home from late 1945 until 1953.
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The Lloyd Ranch house, possible during a 4th of July celebration. The band is waiting to play by the gazebo.
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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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Haas Ranch at Sandstone Creek (Vail) with Frank Harnagle and Margie Haas bottle feeding lambs. Frank Harnagle was Frank Haas' cousin. Ranch house and chickens in the background.
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The Vanance Favre home is on part of what once was the H. B. Gillespie ranch. Gillespie made his fortune at the Molly Gibson Mine at Aspen, Colorado.
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The house was built in 1880-90's. It was moved from Keystone mines near Oak Creek in 1944 to the Leonard Horn Ranch. The house was sawed in half to get accross the frozen Colorado River at State Bridge in order to make the move. There is a barbed wire fence in the foreground and a rug airing on the porch rail.
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Margie Haas holding two puppies with a dog in the background. They are standing in front of the Haas house at Sandstone Creek (Vail). Snow on the ground.
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"Except for its contour, this doesn't look like the ranch house that Tom and Sarah Wohler built and lived in for twenty-five years, but the original log structure is there under a new roof and exterior remodeling. The Wohlers' adopted daughter spent her childhood years here and in later years as the wife of Roy Sherwood." -- McCoy Memoirs p.131
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59) J-L Ranch
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J-L Ranch dwelling in Basalt, built in 1944, with two gabled dormer windows.
