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The Lloyd cabin at Lake Charles viewed through the trees.
"In addition to incredible high-mountain scenery, both Lake Charles and Mystic Island Lake offered some great fishing for cutthroat trout. They remain popular destinations for backpackers and hikers. By the late 1940s, the cabins, weathered by high-mountain snows, had fallen into disrepair. The Forest Service dismantled the remaining buildings." -- Early Eagle, by Kathy Heicher p.93
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Commissary on Benton Ranch in Burns, Colorado. This building was used from 1912 to 1970 to hold food supplies for ranch hands. View shows the two story building with upper porch. Rail fence evident at midground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
124. Thomas' Homestead
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The original Thomas homestead in Beaver Creek (Upper Neck). Standing in front of the house, from left to right: unknown man, John ThomasMabel and Mary (mother), Thomas (standing) Cliff and Charley Thomas seated in Front, Aunt and Uncle (Tom) Norris.
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125. At the Groh Ranch
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"At the former Groh ranch on Rock Creek above McCoy in 1916 [photo dated 1917]. Here are: George Shepard, John Brooks [Jr.], Jessie [Brooks] Groh and Harry Groh. George, a faithful worker had been associated with the Brooks family for many years." -- McCoy Memoirs p.124
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126. Wolcott School
127. Broadway
129. The 'old hotel"
132. "Home Sweet Home"
133. Sweetwater School
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Sweetwater School, known also as Middle Sweetwater School or Gannon School. The teacher was Myrtie Hockett (later, Mrs. James Stephens). Snow on ground and on the roof of the log school with a path visible in right foreground.
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"Built about 1910, this old cabin on the Black Mountain Ranch served as a temporary home for a number of timbermen until 1942. Among them were: Slim Carrington, Fred Schaefermeyer, Shorty Strutzel, Bill Babcock, Al Kearney, Leonard and Maude Hudson, the Herman Bowles family and several others." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 249
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Ellis "Bearcat" Bearden, rancher in the Squaw Creek Valley until his death in 1993.
"The equestrian center at Cordillera bears his name and is located on the land his family homesteaded when Bearcat was just a toddler. The humble log buildings the family used as their ranching headquarters still stand, and are targeted for preservation by the Cordillera Preservation Foundation. Bearcat Springs, a small tributary to Squaw Creek, also carries his...
137. Webster Place
138. Ault family home
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"This was once the home of Elliott Maxwell and wife until Perry Ault bought the place in 1908. He and his wife Lelah and their family of ten lived here until the children were grown, married and had homes of their own. Mr. and Mrs. Ault retired from active farming about 1950 and leased the ranch to their son-in-law, Walter Evans, before buying a house in Kremmling and moving there." -- McCoy Memoirs p.160
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The Sam and Betty Carter home at Carterville at Squaw Creek. The house was built in the 1950s.
"When Sam and Russell grew up, they fell in love with the Terry sisters, Betty and Wanda, who had lived at both Squaw and Lake Creeks. After their marriages, the four built cabins at Carterville and raised another generation of Carter children" -- June Simonton, The First Pioneers: a Squaw Creek History, p. 27
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