Teachout's Ranch

Summary: A view of Teachout's Ranch near Edgerton, Colorado, includes a two-story gable-roofed building with a porch with Victorian decorative woodwork, and a smaller building nearby; numerous people stand near a board fence in front, including a seated elderly woman, a child holding a doll, a woman and child each on horseback, a seated man holding a rifle, and what appear to be ranch hands. Two wagons are in front of the fence. One is covered and is pulled by two horses with a man next to the horses. The other, also pulled by two horses is uncovered and has a man at the reins. Trees, another fence, and fields are in the background.
Date: [between 1860 and 1878?]
Notes: Formerly F30079.; Label on back of photoprint reads, Mrs. W.D. Tudor, Tudor Valley Ranch, Route 1 Box 184, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Title hand-written on back of photoprint.; Written in blue ink on back of photoprint: "Being a part of monument park and Among the Pines, Eight Miles North of Colorado Springs, on the line of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, Post office at the house. Board seven dollars a week. H. M. Teachout, Edgerton P.O., El Paso Co., Colorado." This picture with above add [sic] appeared in pamphlet called Rambles through the Great Kansas Valley and in Eastern Colorado by Gaft in 1878. The stone foundation of barn "not in picture" and the remnants of foundation of main house and an ice house still stand in 1967. "Harlow Teachout in spring wagon hauling water" told by nephew Roger Teachout. Picture obtained thru courtesy of C.S. Historical Museum.; R7100080580
Physical Description 1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint ; 12 x 17 cm. (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.