Ames, near Ophir, Colorado

Ames
Joseph Collier, photographer.
Summary: Pack burros are gathered in front of the Sample Room and the Cabinet Saloon in Ames, a mining community near the Ophir Loop in San Miguel County, Colorado. Two men on horseback lead the group of burros. Men and a woman stand on the sidewalk in front of the businesses; a woman stands in a second-story window. A team of horses pulls a wagon with two men sitting on the buckboard; a ridge of mountains is in the distance.
Date [between 1875 and 1900?]
Notes: "362. Ames" handwritten on image in Collier collection of Western History Department, Denver Public Library.; Negative has number "1" stenciled in lower corner.