Cow Creek and Pioneer Sheep Companies (page 2)

Old time sheep wagon - horse drawn with iron rimmed wheels.

The Hahn's Peak Basin was the summer hunting grounds of the Ute Indians until gold was discovere in the early 1860's.  For the next fourty odd years there were miners, logging camps and a few scattered ranches.  By 1911, the Cow Creek and Pioneer Sheep Companies moved the summer headquarters from Baggs Wyoming to Hahn's Peak Basin.  By the late 1950's the era of the large sheep outfits was over and the US Forrest Service turned it into recreation areas.  Pearl Lake was built in 1962 and Steamboat Lake (in Hahn's Peak Village) in 1968.

Uncle Harold Spragg with later made sheep wagon with smaller rubber tires - pulled by pick-up truck.

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