Semotan Ranch
About the Ranch The Semotan Ranch is located in Clark, Colorado. The barn on the Semotan Ranch was once used as the Long Gulch School House. The ranch was bought in 1958 and owes its success to the women of …
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Back to home Soash Ranch
Images fo the Soash family and the historic Soash Ranch can be found in the digital collections at the Tread of Pioneers Museum – https://photos.treadofpioneers.org/results.php.
Bonnifield Place
Photos Paul and Ellen Bonnifield, Historians, Summer 2021 Paul Bonnifield posing next to historic machinery in his yard Paul Bonnifield feeding his horses. Libby Christensen, Dr. Lesil Carr Childers, and Ellen feeding horses. Historic agricultural machinery in Paul Bonnifield’s yard.
Stanko Ranch
About the Ranch In 1907, Peter and Anna Stanko sold their saloon in Walsenburg and moved to Steamboat Springs. They purchased land from Logan Crawford, the son of Steamboat Springs founder James Crawford. The Stankos raised cattle, pigs, oats, and …
Kuntz Ranch
About the Ranch Joseph Emile Gay Crosier arrived in Pleasant Valley in 1897 and purchased land from William F. Nichols, who had patented his homestead in 1892. In 1909, Emile patented his own homestead. In addition to cattle ranching Emile …
Brown Ranch
About the Ranch Margaret Duncan Brown purchased the ranch in 1915 from the McPhee Family. After losing her husband, she continued the operation, sold her cattle, and turned to raising sheep. She worked as one of the few female sheepherders …
Hitchens Overlook Ranch
About the Ranch James Hitchens arrived in the Yampa Valley in 1884 and filed on land intending to homestead in 1886. The former miner patented the homestead in 1899. His son Albert took over operations in 1929 and in 1958, …
Monger Ranch
About the Ranch Adaline Johnson moved to Routt County in 1902 and at the age of 18 filed a homestead claim. She married John Monger in 1915 and unfortunately passed away during the Spanish Flu epidemic in 1918. In 1948, …