Local History Photo Archive
The Eagle Valley Library District and the Eagle County Historical Society work together to bring you thousands of photographs, artifacts, and many other items from historical Eagle County and the surrounding areas on the Western Slope.
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- Frank Doll and horse
- Frank Doll shows one of his race horses at the Doll Ranch in Gypsum. The horse stables are visible behind Frank. A caption on the back reads, "Frank Doll with Race Horse - this horse had won much money in races (Killed horse in RR going south to a race)"
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- Frank Doll and horse
- Frank Doll showing one of his horses at the "Big Barn" in Gypsum Valley. A boy is standing at the barn door. "Horse-racing cannot be considered apart from those who were responsible for the breeding of some of the finest race horses in the country--namely, Blind John Condon and Uncle Sam Doll, who at one time owned and operated the largest race track in Chicago. The fine stables are still intact on the Doll ranches, mementoes of the 'gay 90's'--days when horse-racing was king of all sports, before Colorado outlawed it. Sam Doll was considered by many the best trainer of horses west of the Mississippi, and those who saw his fine 'high-steppers' hitched to an English hansom agree." --Pioneers of Eagle County, by Marie Smith Feb. 28, 1936.
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- Frank Doll with horses
- 1898: Frank Doll with horses brought from Ohio, standing in front of cabin at Dotsero. Frank and Lucy Doll with their children, Sam and Susan, spent the Fall and Winter of 1887 here. The one-room log cabin appears to be on a rock foundation with steps leading up to a small porch at the front door. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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- Frank Edwin Grant
- Frank Edwin Grant leans against a railing near a building in Castle Gate, Utah. Frank was the brother of Mary (Grant) Borah and brother-in-law to Alfred Borah. He worked for Alfred for a number of years before moving to Utah. Living first in Salt Lake City, he moved to Castle Gate, where he died in 1925, at the age of 55.