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Victor Akin's horse, "Buck"


Title	Victor Akin's horse, "Buck"
Image ID Number	H21211
Description	Victor Akin's horse "Buck", a buckskin, hense the name "Buck". In his early days, he won races at fairs, etc. He was the "winner" of the very nice bedroom suite among other things. He was also used to entertain (and terrorize) tenderfoot school teachers that came to the district. In those days there was no such thing as high powered machinery - horse power meant "powered by horses". Victor leased some teams to work on reconstructing a dam at Chamber's Lake. He supervised his teams during the week and rode Buck down the Poudre Canyon Trail to check things out at home on weekends. An all night trek up the canyon on Sunday night got him back on duty. This routine went on for several weeks. Buck was sole transportation for Helen to District #35 school during seventh and eighth grades. Plus; it was decreed that there was space behind the saddle going to waste. Mildred Jesser attended third grade as a passenger. Buck kept our lunches thoroughly shaken up. Fort Collins, Colorado
Content Type	animals
Image Source	Historical Collection
Format	image/jpeg
Image Collection	Akin Collection
File Location	Akin Scrapbook, page 15
Language	English
Image Origin	Digital Print Only
Digitization Format	Microtek ArtixScan Scanner; Adobe 6.0; TIFF 800 dpi; JPEG 72dpi; GIF 72dpi
Collection Name	HistoricPhotographs

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The Water Ways Photograph Database provides 1200 photographs associated with Larimer County water history.