Haxtun – Jacks Old Photos of Colorado

The Luckes #1 -- Photo postcard of steam tractor bringing in the wheat near Haxtun, CO, 1916. (Photo by G.W. Pierce)

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This photo of a large steam tractor pulling wagons of harvested wheat at Haxtun, CO, makes for a striking image. As noted in the caption on the photo, this dryland…

The Luckes #2 -- Lucke family photo, probably taken near Haxtun, CO, ca. 1917. [Photo courtesy of Laura Miller, taken from the “Family History of Henry & Margaret Lucke,” compiled by Hazel Lucke Kilgore, 1979.]

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This photo shows Aurelia “Ora” (Brust) and George Lucke with their four children (left to right) Edgar, Milton, Bruce and Lucille. Ora’s life was taken in October of 1918 by…

Welcome to my blog of old Colorado photos. I’ve always loved old photos, and given my interest in history, it was probably inevitable that I would be drawn to the idea of collecting old images of the Colorado town where I grew up, i.e., Fort Lupton. Fort Lupton sits on the South Platte River, about halfway between Denver and Greeley, at the western edge of the Great Plains.

I grew up feeling more connected to the eastern half of the state than to the western half. Maybe that was because I knew the plains were just out the back door of Fort Lupton, so to speak, or simply because I was more familiar with the names of towns to the east. So, a few years ago, when I decided to expand my collecting beyond Fort Lupton, I leaned east. Since then, though, I’ve gotten the bug for expanding my collection to the entire state. You'll find that, in its current state, my blog is weighted toward images of Fort Lupton, eastern and northern Colorado, but that will shift as I steadily add images from the Colorado Rockies and western slope.

I hope you enjoy my blog as much as I enjoy building and tending to it. Please feel free to leave comments!

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Jack’s Old Photos
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Jack’s Old Photos
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