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Harry Mize standing next to a 1954 Jeep. There is an elk draped over the hood. Harry (1908-1980) retired as a Maintenance Foreman for the New Jersey Zinc Co. in 1973 and moved to Salida. He was an avid hunter/family guide. The Jeep is still running in Arizona. The photo is looking toward Highway 24. The white house was a New Jersey Zinc company house rented by Foster and Virginia Witthauer. Virginia was a nurse and Foster was head of the mill...

Haas shed at the Sandstone Creek ranch [Vail] with elk, gutted and hung, in the background. Elk racks in foreground. From L to R: Elmer Nelson, Mary Fanning, Margie Haas, Lena Storm, Mary Storm, Albert Nelson. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]

Hunting party on the Flat Tops near Trappers Lake. A mounted hunter, possibly Jake Borah, is standing by the cook stove. Hanging deer are in right background.

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

John M. Ruder, at left, with his son, Ralph L. Ruder, on right, with bobcat. Son of Jacob and Mary Buchholz Ruder [Mary was Nicholas Buchholz' sister], John was born Dec. 3, 1887, and came with his family to Eagle County in 1894. He lived most of his life on Gore Creek where the family homesteaded a ranch beginning in 1897. Ralph L. Ruder, John and Edna Ruder's only child, was killed in a truck accident on Battle Mountain, December 18, 1961. He...

Min Borah and five hounds belonging to Jake Borah. Min is holding the collar of one dog while standing in a campsite. Two tents are visible in the left background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]

Ethel Mary and Jim Latham with their rifles and trophies. Ethel Mary was working as a telephone operator in Eagle when she met James W. Latham, a young railroad man. Ethel Mary died of a brain tumor in the early 1950s.

Frank Robinson holding his 30-30 in his left hand and the reins to his horse in his right. They are standing in fallen timber. The horse is packing elk. Frank was the son of Harold Robinson, Safety man for the New Jersey Zinc Co. He had a brother, Fred, and a sister, Jane. Frank lived in Red Cliff and was in a logging company, Warren Brothers & Robinson. He had M.S. for years and died in 2009.

October 1956: John Gabelman poses with the day's kill: a large buck. He is in front of the Bent House in Triangle Park at Fulford, Colorado.

James P. Gates with his traps. Antler in foreground.