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21. Stewart Cemetery
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Stewart gravesites in Dotsero. Jack Stewart (tall gravestone), 1842-1916, Jack Stewart II, (front of tall gravestone), 1923-1979, and Elsie Trump Owen (marker to the right of the Stewarts) who was a daughter of Nelson Yost, 1898-1985. Also buried here is the baby of Edna Stewart-Lemon.
The cemetery is to the right of the westbound ramp to I-70 at Dotsero.
"Graves in the Dotsero Sweetwater area. Collected by Joan Brallier. Helped by Myrti Stephens...
22. Dotsero
24. Snow in Dotsero
25. Christmas 1953
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"Built in 1887 the Quinlan Homestead cabin east of Dotsero is still standing. Elizabeth, Mary and Gertrude were born under its dirt roof. The family only lived here a few years before locating near McCoy." -- McCoy Memoirs p.141
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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c.1900: Pack train at the Carbonate mine site (Flat Tops), approximately 12 to 15 miles from Dotsero. The old mining camp was being dismantled and this pack train was taking items from the blacksmith shop, including the bellows. Seven donkeys with three men (l. to r.: Mr. Johnson, Frank Doll, James Dilts). Cut logs in background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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1928: Five boys line up in front of the Dotsero School. From left to right: Edwin Yost, Therman Yost, Freddie Yost, Clyde Hayes, Eddie Wilds. The teacher at this time was Myrtie Stephens. The boys are wearing overalls. There is a fence in the right foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
29. Truck wreck
30. Nels Yost
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John Nelson "Nels" Yost, standing at a bridge. He is wearing overalls and has a pocket watch on a chain. He was born in Quincy, Illinois, on Dec. 13, 1853, and came to Leadville, Colorado, in 1877. There he married Lilly Cook in 1888. He came to Eagle County, driving stage and a freighting outfit between Leadville and Glenwood Springs. After the railroad arrived, he located at Dotsero. He died Mar. 8, 1938, and was buried at Eagle. -- Eagle...
32. Log house
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The east entrance to Glenwood Canyon in the 1930s. The road was not paved and was very close to the Colorado River which carved the canyon. The road connects Dotsero and Eagle County to Glenwood Springs and Garfield County, Colorado.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
34. Shoe shop
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Photo postcard, handcolored, 15797: Bridge over the Colorado River on the Dotsero Cutoff.
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"'The Pagodas' in Red Canon, Colorado River. The Dotsero Cutoff, 38.1 miles long, is the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad's latest construction, connecting Dotsero, 17 miles east of Glenwood Springs, with Orestod, on the Moffat Road. This reduces the distance 175 miles from Denver to Glenwood Springs, Salt Lake City and beyond. Ceremonies...