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Betty Taylor Beck and Angela Beck (holding baby Aurora Beck) at hunting camp on Homesatke Rd., October 18, 2008. Betty was the daughter of Jeff and Eddie Taylor. They owned Jeff's Place in Minturn. Betty married Jack Beck and had three children, Bruce, Ronnie and Marylin.
2) Yeoman Camp
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"Yeoman Camp at Salt Creek" (part of the Brush Creek drainage). Multiple log buildings, corrals and fencing are seen. Several miles further up East Brush Creek Rd. is the old mining town of Fulford. This photo was taken prior to the CCC camp built in the 1930s at Yeoman Park. The site has been a favored camping and fishing place since the settlement of Eagle.
" At an elevation of 9,000 ft, Yeoman Park campground is located on the edge of a wetland...
3) Hunting camp
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Five men at a hunting camp on the Flattops. Some of the men are Fennos. A tent is in the bacground, blankets and gloves stacked in foreground. Automobile at far right.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Bob McDougall and Buster Beck camping at a lake in the Gold Park area.
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From left, Clark and Walter Gates going on a camping and hunting trip. Clark is "probably scanning the countryside for elk." -- The Gates Genealogy
6) Camping
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A camping trip with buckboard and tent. Dessie is in white at the right; Earl is fence sitting at far left. Another couple is with them and there's a buckboard in the center of the scene.
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Camping scene at Deep Lake cabins in 1905.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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From left, Clark Gates, Bert Gates (standing) and cousin Walter Gates cooking during a hunting trip. Pork and Beans were definitely on the menu.
9) Camping
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Campsite with tent at far right, clothes drying on bushes, and dog keeping guard.
10) Upper Black Lake
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A view of Upper Black Lake on Vail Pass. The cabin camp is in the distance. A raft with bedsheet sail is at left.
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"These hunters were camped on Black Creek, ten miles north-east of McCoy in 1912. They are: Rudolph Ebert, Carl Schrupp, Ernest Werner and Fritz Arendt. The photo by Martin Schomers. At that date, it's doubtful if any one of the group possessed a hunting license. Note the grouse hanging on the tree, one of the reasons that grouse, once so plentiful in those days, are so scarce now." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.11
Photo postcard.
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Companion photo to 1992.004A.039, McCoy Memoirs, p.10
"McCoy hunters on Piney Creek in 1907 are Harry Groh, Fritz Arendt, and Emmett Quinlan." Ferdinand Ambos took the photo.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Boy Scouts at Gold Park. It was right after the war and the scouts routinely found wire and explosives.
14) Hunting camp
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Hunting camp based from the Brett ranch. Three men are standing at the front of the tent; another man is kneeling in front of the cookstove.
15) Uranium mining
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Several Red Cliff residents prospected uranium on Wilson Mesa, Utah, in 1953. Sitting around the breakfast table in the camp are, from front left: Jeff Taylor, Vic Chitwood, and Johnny Tetreault. At front right, Buster Beck, with two unidentified men standing. Jeff Taylor's grandsons currently [2010] mine uranium in Moab, Utah.
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Walter (left) and Clark Gates, cousins, standing by a campfire. Walter frequently visited his cousins, coming from Nebraska in the summertime.
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Bernard "Spike" Doyle on left and Robert Maloit during the second Holy Cross Pilgrimage (1928). They are at Camp Tigiwon with the large assembly tent and the uncompleted Tigiwon Post Office in the background. The boys were allowed to join the Pilgrimage without being accompanied by an adult. They are standing near Rock Circle, made by the members of the First Pilgrimage by chipping their initials and date on a rock and placing them in this formation....
18) Walter Gates
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Walter Gates posed with horses at a hunting camp.
"Walter and Grace [his wife] visited often on Derby Mesa (from their home in Hastings, Nebraska) during the summer for a number of years. They stayed frequently with the Clark Gates, the James P. Gates and the Bert Gates families. In laater years they stayed with the Frank Gates and Albert Gates families." -- Bettie Gates in The Gates Genealogy
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From left, Walter and Clark Gates going on a camping and hunting trip.
