GC34E6BBeckwith Mountain Ranch
Type: Traditional
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By: CW Scout@
| Hide Date: 09/18/2011
| Status: Available
Country: United States
| State: Colorado Coordinates: N38° 11.483 W105° 31.375 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Vision and Mission 2006 By restoring the Beckwith Ranch House, the
bunkhouse, the out buildings and the corrals to their late 19th
century condition,will recapture the romance of the Old West
ranching heritage.A Brief History of the Beckwith Ranch. The Beckwith Ranch,
established in 1874 by brothers Elton and win Beckwith, was at its
peak one of the largest cattle operations in Colorado. Sons of a
wealthy shipbuilder from Mount Desert Island, Maine, Elton and
Edwin brought cattle from Texas in 1869 for the miners in Colorado
with Charles Goodnight, one of the legendary founders of the
western cattle industry.In the 1870's Elton and Edwin began
building a ranching empire. Elton married Elsie Chapin Davis in
1875, and in 1877 their daughter, Velma, was born. Their Victorian
mansion was built during this time. Elton enjoyed a short political
career, serving one term as a Colorado state senator. In addition
to their ranch home, Elton and Elsie owned a home on Capitol Hill
in Denver. Beckwith died in June of 1907. After Elton's death, Mrs.
Beckwith sold the property in the Wet Mountain Valley and moved to
Denver, where she lived in the Brown Palace Hotel, until purchasing
a home in the city. She lived there until her death in 1931. Elton,
Elsie, and Edwin are all buried in the Ula Cemetery, located a few
miles southwest of the ranch.
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01/31/2019 By Army Girl & USMC EOD Bummer! Closed and we didn’t want to trespass on private property! Cute area!
~Army Girl & USMC EOD
09/21/2018 By Bonanzaman49 Well, OK, it's only 3 mi from our house, so, decided it was time to check it. Container in good shape, signed log, and enjoyed the view as always.......been here many times before we started caching! TFTC!!
08/01/2018 By arw7/14 Coordinates were jumping all around so we had to give up, this time. The hint and activity log wasn't much help either. But I did bring a friend along for the adventure, a trackable I picked up in Mexico on a race.
07/29/2018 By KJKlock I came out to the Mount Princeton Hot Springs and Buena Vista area this weekend to pick up Jenn from the Colorado Trail and to resupply her for her next week of hiking.
After dropping her back off at the trailhead on Sunday afternoon, I took the long way back home to find caches in two new counties. This is our first and only find in Custer County.
Very cool place here.
TFTC!
06/26/2018 By fatrabbit57 To pretty can't imagine loving then
05/07/2018 By MaxB on the River Visiting from Michigan. Brought MaxB's Escorted Travel Bug Group Tour to Find Cache and work on the Colorado County Challenge. Today we cached in 5 new counties.
Beckwith Mountain Ranch
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