Two girls wearing dresses stand outside of a log cabin school with a boarded up window in the mining community of Hahn's Peak (also known as Poverty Bar), Colorado in Routt County. Each child holds a bouquet of flowers.

Four miners pose with a wheelbarrow full of ore, Routt County, Colorado. The hillside behind them has been cut away.

Two men fishing in Yampa (formerly Bear) River, Colorado reached via Moffat Road, Denver & Salt Lake Railroad (formerly Denver, Northwestern & Pacific); wooden frame residences and buildings viewed across river behind trees.

Miner Ed Burnett sits in a chair and examines a piece of ore with a hand-held magnifying glass in the interior of a cabin in the town of Hahn's Peak (also known as Poverty Bar), Colorado in Routt County. He wears a long-sleeved shirt, dirty trousers, and a canvas hat.

J. B. Gray and Robert Bird, early homesteaders, pose in Yampa, Routt County, Colorado.

Hank Campbell sits in a chair smoking a pipe in Hahn's Peak, Routt County Colorado, in a suit, vest, tie, and cowboy hat.

Head and shoulders portrait of Benny and Percy Laughlin, Yampa, Routt County, Colorado. Benny wears a suit and white bow tie; Percy has on a brocade blouse with high neck and puffed sleeves.

J. C. Mobly, prospector, a noted character of Western CO, stands with his hands in his pocket on a slope near the town of Hahn's Peak (also known as Poverty Bar), Colorado, in Routt County. He wears a suit jacket, denim jeans, calf-length leather boots, a front-button shirt, a string tie, and a hat. He has shoulder- length hair and an unkempt mustache.
"Mobly was very friendly with the Ute Indians on their hunting expeditions."

Joe Moran poses in the tall grass for a full-torso portrait in front of a wood-frame building in the town of Hahn's Peak (also known as Poverty Bar), Colorado, in Routt County.

Miners pose indoors with dogs in Routt County, Colorado. Newspaper clippings and posters cover the walls.

Pete Pourtalis pushes a wheelbarrow full of ore out of a mine near the mining community of Hahn's Peak (also known as Poverty Bar), Colorado, in Routt County. He wears a jacket, a long-sleeved shirt, trousers, and a cowboy hat. He holds a pipe in his mouth. Two miners stand behind him under the timbers of the mine shaft.

Sam Stevens, a resident of the mining community of Hahn's Peak (also known as Poverty Bar), Colorado, in Routt County stands on a hillside in the Humbolt Mountains of Nevada and examines a piece of ore with a magnifying glass. He wears trousers, a long-sleeved shirt, suspenders, a cowboy hat and a canteen over his shoulder.

People pose at The Antlers, in Yampa, Routt County, Colorado, a frame hotel with porch/balcony and sign: "The Antlers. "The group are (upper deck): 1. Myrtie Bird Trantham, 2. Levi Trantham, 3. Minnie Lindsey, 4. Addie Hunter; (lower level, l to r): 5. Ida Bird, 6. Annie Butteric, 7. Harry Butteric, 7x. Auntie Hopper, 8. Alice Bird, 9. leash (?) Cottonting, 10. Lem Lindsey, 11. Auntie Lindsey, 12. J. P. Lindsey, 13. Emma Bryant, 14. Maud Trantham, 15. Dan Trantham, 16. Gus Bower, 17. Etta Phillips." "Taken 1899"

Portrait of Colorado Territorial Governor John Long Routt (1826-1907), with signature.

Head and shoulders portrait of Mrs. C. A. Morning, Yampa, Routt County, Colorado, wearing a lace collar and a locket.

Auntie Lindsey poses in Yampa, Routt County, Colorado. She wears a long skirt, a corseted bodice with ruffles, and a wedding ring.

Mike Cox poses in Yampa, Routt County, Colorado, in the snow, holding the star atop a Christmas tree.

William Bird and his wife stand on their porch in Yampa (formerly Egeria,) Routt County, Colorado. The two-story frame house has intersecting gables, a picket fence and trees.

Hayden, Colorado

Sage Creek Coal Fields

Hayden, Colorado

A luggage wagon is parked on the platform in front of the Hayden, Colorado, train depot in Routt County.

Hotel Yampa with its famous elk horn fence also residence of Ira Van Camp, who had stage station and livery stable.

Oak Creek (or Hill) Coal Mine, Colorado (Routt county), reached via Moffat Road, Denver and Salt Lake Railroad (formerly Denver, Northwestern and Pacific); shows coal mine, smelter, coal carts and tracks, standard gauge track and sidings with hopper and box cars, photo by L.C. McClure, Denver.

Tall pine trees frame view of George Lake near Buffalo Pass (on Continental Divide, border of Routt and Jackson Counties, Colorado).

Remains of old Lodge at Columbine, just north of Hahn's Peak about 32 miles north of Steamboat - "Columbine had more residents and for a later period than Hahn's Peak. Columbine lies at the western base of Hahn's Peak 10,824 ft. high, a historic spot."

Center of panorama view of Camp Mt. Harris, Routt County, Colorado, founded by George and Byron Harris; includes Colorado Utah Supply Company residences and Denver and Salt Lake (Moffat Road) railroad tracks with box cars.

Four men, who look behind them, travel in a horse-drawn cart down a rocky road that parallels Elk River near the town of Hahn's Peak (also known as Poverty Bar), Colorado, in Routt County.

Men, women, and children pose with saddled horses in front of the wood frame store, Clark, Routt County, Colorado; sign above door reads: "Express Room."

Two prospectors, W. A. George and Sam Stevens, stand on a promontory near Hahn's Peak (also known as Poverty Bar), Colorado, in Routt County. George, who was killed in a mining accident in 1905, holds a rifle in his right hand and a pack in his left hand. Stevens holds a long, wooden pole in his right hand. Each man has a canvas pack draped across his chest and wears long-sleeved shirts, trousers, long, leather boots, and cowboy hats.

A funeral party of men and a small girl somberly gathers around a casket strapped to a toboggan on a snowy field near the town of Hahn's Peak (also known as Poverty bar), Colorado, in Routt County. Two dogs stand near the group of people; the men wear dark suits, boots, and hats.

Men and a woman pose on a horse-drawn stagecoach in Routt County, Colorado. Women and girls sit in the windows of a nearby building.

View of the Steamboat Cabin Hotel, Steamboat Springs, Routt County, Colorado, features the three-story building with gables, dormers, contrasting wood trim and wraparound porch.

View of the powerhouse, Steamboat Springs, Routt County, Colorado, in which W. F. Swan had an interest - Mr. Carver ran the power house and was part owner - features the gable-roofed brick building with gauge-arched windows and a smokestack; icicles hang from the eaves.

View over Steamboat Springs, Routt County, Colorado, includes farm houses and barns with hay lofts on the outskirts of town.

View of abandoned Native American tepee frames in the snow in North Park, Routt National Forest, Colorado.

View overlooking the agricultural community of Hayden, Colorado, in Routt County. An iron bridge crosses the Yampa River. Haystacks dot the field next to the town.

View of Moffat Avenue, Yampa (Egeria) Routt County, Colorado; signs read: "The Antlers," "Saloons," "Drugs," "Yampa Restaurant," "Famous Restaurant & Bakery," and the "Moffat Avenue Restaurant."

Panoramic view of the small community of Juniper Hot Springs, Colorado, in Routt County shows one and two-story commercial storefronts with gables and false fronts, a residence, and a boarding house on the street. Two men stand in front of the open door of the boarding house.

Steamboat Springs, Colorado Routt County, Pioneer Day celebration taken from Onyx Quarry? Hill toward N.E. / W. I. Hodlas, registered mining & civil engineer, U. S. Mineral Surveyor, engineering, surveying, maps, reports, blueprinting, Steamboat Springs, Colo.

A man poses with pen in hand as he annotates an exhibit tag at an agricultural exhibit of the Routt County Fair in Hayden, Colorado. Another man watches behind him. Items on display include grains, fruits, squash, and other vegetbles. American flags decorate the exhibit. Signs: "Welcome Routt County Fair."

All photos courtesy of:

History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library

and

The American Memory Project