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Albert Buffehr standing on sled, holding the reins to a four-horse team. The caption reads "log hauling out of Mill Creek." Albert and his wife, Violet, lived in Minturn and later moved to Edgewater, Colorado. Both are buried in Minturn.

Joy Marfitano standing in front of cut logs at Warren's sawmill on Shrine Pass.

A man, possibly Buster Beck, in snowfield with a cross-cut felling saw, possibly near Fancy Pass. "A felling saw is generally less stiff than a bucking saw and the backside, as well as the cutting side, is usually curved inward. Felling saws are more often used to cut down standing trees, so the thinner, lighter design is easier to use without gravity holding the blade against the cut." [http://www.fs.fed.us/t-d/pubs/htmlpubs/htm77712508/page03.htm]...

Stump in the snow. The trail where logs have been dragged through the snow is to the right of the stump.

Everett Warren stacking logs at the lower sawmill on Wearyman Creek.

Logs stacked waiting for transport out of the timber.

Fallen logs, waiting for trimming and hauling.

Everett Howard holding the reins of his horse team (Don and Chubb, as identified by Mamie Rodgers) while standing on timber sled. The sled is empty. Caption reads "after unloading logs at depot." Snow on the ground. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]

The front of the Fleming Lumber and Mercantile Co. building on Eagle Street in Red Cliff in December 1999. The building is vacant and for rent.

"In February of 1933 there was no snow at the John Ambos sawmill on the east rim of Rock Creek Canyon and very little anywhere in the McCoy area, for that matter. But a year later, there was plenty of it. The A frame just to the right of the mill shed, supports a heavy aerial cable that Frank Haddon had stretched across the canyon for a log hoisting operation in 1930 which was a dismal failure." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.245 [Title supplied from catalog...