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Looking down on Black Mountain Ranch from Sawmill Mountain. The sawmill was located at the foot of the mountain and Dick Webb was the sawmill operator. Photo taken January 1936.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Black Mountain, el. 10,000 and the ranch, shortly after Judge M. Lyle had purchased the property and converted it into a guest ranch." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 248
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View looking southeast of the town of Eagle (right midground). Eagle River is in center foreground; Chambers Ranch is in left foreground.
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"The Black Mountain Lodge and two of the four guest cabins. Bud Kier did most of the carpenter work on the buildings and during that time, he and his wife Loi lived on the ranch." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.250
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The Butler and Conger Cabins at Black Mountain Ranch in 1966.
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The Theisen Cabin at Black Mountain Ranch in 1966.
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"The ranch buildings on what later became the Black Mountain Ranch. When this picture was taken in 1935 [photo has both 1934 and 1936 written on it], it was a working ranch (with emphasis on work) and had about fifty acres under cultivation, the balance of the 1,100 acres was pasture and timberland. Pioneers named the hill in the background Sawmill Mountain. Until 1915 the hill was a paradise for grouse and to see fifty or sixty in a flock was...
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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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"Judge Lyle named his four guest cabins after Conger Mesa pioneers. This one is the Conger, others are the Theisen, Butler and Ambos." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 251
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A view of the lodge at Black Mountain Ranch in 1970.
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Town of Minturn in 1896. The view is to the north west....Lion Head Rock is in the far upper right of the photo. [hand colored black and white photo]
caption on verso: "Minturn 1896. Grandpa Fleck. M.R."
One of Mack Fleck's daughters was Minnie Richardson; possibly her photo.
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"Hill ranch on Lake Creek" - caption from Edwards School Scrapbook, page 14. The scrapbook was completed as a youth citizens' league project between 1954-1955.
The foreground appears to be a hay or alfalfa field with several piles cut and piled in rows (one is in clear view in the bottom right corner). There is a building or home at center left; another home can be seen (colored white) beyond the first building as well.
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The home of Duane and Velma Larsen. Duane & Velma lived and worked on the Larsen ranch on Brush Creek with Duane's parents, Hans & Hester Larsen.
15) Duane & the dog
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Duane Larsen, a toddler in this photo, leans down to pet the dog. The Larsen home on Brush Creek and a fence are in the background. To the right of Duane is a large metal pipe.
16) Borah ranch
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The Borah ranch on Brush Creek. The main home and barn/buildings are at center with a herd of cattle visible in the left corner. The site of the Borah ranch is now the Frost Creek Golf Course.
"The first half showing all the buildings built in 1902. 1896 to 1916." -- Alda Borah
