What we know
Harrison Bucks, Civil War veteran and freighter, patented the 'Bucks Place' in 1878 and helped build the Spring Valley School; Bucks Mountain was added in 1885.
Where it was
Centroid of the patented forties (S1/2 SW1/4 Sec. 23 and NW1/4 NE1/4 and NE1/4 NW1/4 Sec. 26, T10S R66W) per the landmark nomination's footnote citing BLM COCOAA 074025 (Larkspur Historical Society binder 6 p. 128).
Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.
Sources
Sources are named in the text above. Numbers such as S-0080 refer to our source list. Most newspaper quotations were read in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Long quotations from recent books are shortened here.