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Verso: "Don and Tom on Battle Mt. Highway 1930s"
The highway was then unpaved and was the only route for workers going to the mine at Gilman.
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Mount of the Holy Cross and Notch Mountain from top of Battle Mountain. Trees and cleared space in foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
3. Gore Range
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The Gore Range farthest away, Battle Mountain, Gilman and U.S. Highway 24 at midground. The photo was taken by Si Ostermeier from the top of Notch Mountain.
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The Hart mining camp, "Poverty Flats," located on Battle Mountain east of Gilman and just below Bell's Camp. Harry Nottingham was orn in Belles Camp in 1890. There are varous buildings and outbuildings with a group of people gathered together at right midground. It may be a celebration of some sort.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
5. Assay office
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Photo postcard of Gilman with Belden at the bottom of the Eagle River Canyon. Ore cars are lined up on the tracks and the surface tram is clearly visible.
"Eagle River Canyon and Gilman from Battle Mt. Highway Sanborn W-1102"
6. Tigiwon road
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View of the Battle Mountain area from O.W. Randall's ranch with the newly constructed Tigiwon road in the foreground.
Photo labeled 284581 on front; stamped 4400 on back.
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Three two-horse teams pulling a sled loaded with mine timbers on Battle Mountain. One man driving the teams, seated on the timbers. Snow on ground.
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"Lover's Leap was blasted off to the road level in 1939 by a road construction crew. A hanging bridge will span the canon here." View of the escarpment looking up.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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View of D. & R. G. Railway tracks, looking up the Eagle River. Lover's Leap on left side of bridge; top of depot visible in background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
10. Convoy
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Truck convoy negotiating the Old Battle Mountain Road. The original rock supported roadway is clearly visible
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
11. Battle Mountain
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Battle Mountain as seen from Gilman. The numerous streaks near the mid point of the mountain mark mine openings above Belden. These represented small mining claims from the late 1800's. The photo is oriented east toward Red Cliff with Windy Point in the top center. U.S. Highway 24 is toward the top of Battle Mountain.
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Heavy equipment on a slope of Battle Mountain during road construction (1939-1940). Man and dog are walking in right foreground; graders and tractors moving dirt.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Graders and tractors creating roads on the steep sides of Battle Mountain, Colorado.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Marker for: "Jose B. O. Martinez, A3C US Air Force, Korea, July 2, 1936--Sept. 25, 2010," in River View Cemetery. Engraved on the marker is Battle Mountain, the Red Cliff Bridge and a hunter.
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Road to Red Cliff with old bridge across the Eagle River before the Red Cliff Bridge was opened in 1941. Battle Mountain is on the left.
Photograph is labeled: "Roads end"
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Joe S. Sandoval standing next to Jack Elliott [neighbors on Turkey Creek (Red Cliff)]. The men are at the Ground Hog Mine, Nottingham Incline, on Battle Mountain.
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Photo postcard showing the "New Battle Mountain Highway," U.S. Hwy 24. The view is looking south, going from GIlman to Red Cliff.
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"Looking northwest, going down Battle Mt. about 1.5 miles below Gilman." -- Lucille Riggle
The Eagle River is at center; U.S. Hwy 24 crosses the river in the foreground.
19. Lovers' Leap
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A man and woman perched on top of Lovers' Leap, Battle Mountain, near Red Cliff. Highway 6 is in the bottom right corner.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
20. Convoy
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Truck convoy negotiating the Old Battle Mountain Road. The original rock supported roadway is clearly visible. Probably the original image from which the close-up [1984.001.018] was made.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]