# Henry B. Walker ranch (1869-1907)

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/henry-b-walker-ranch-1869-1907/
- Also known as: the Walker homestead at Husted
- Kind: Ranches and homesteads
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.023, -104.8368 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile))

- Updated: 2026-10-17

## What we know

Henry B. Walker's family was burned out north of Monument in the September 1868 raid and 'built their home at Husted in 1869. The location of the house was where the east and west road enters the Air Force Academy' (Lavelett, S-0013, p. 65); the Sun Hills essay says 'roughly at the North Gate' (S-0114). His son James B. Walker's 1918 sketch: after the raid the father 'bought a relinquishment of a Mr. Cousins and thus came into possession of a ranch, six miles south of Monument, whereon he resided until 1907', then moved to Colorado Springs and died in Denver in 1914 (Stone, S-0193, vol. 4 p. 173). Walker proved up this homestead in 1876 and bought more by cash entry: 202 acres in Secs. 31, 32 and 5 in 1884, in what is now the southeast part of Gleneagle, and 120 acres in Secs. 11 and 12 in 1888 (S-0080). Carlton B. Cozens homesteaded next to the 1884 tracts in 1880, and Clark Z. Cozens a mile west in 1873, so 'Mr. Cousins' may be a Cozens. See also 'Henry Walker's house burned (Sept. 1868)'.

## Where it was

Henry B. Walker's homestead patent of May 15, 1876: E1/2 NE (the serial card: NE NE and S1/2 NE), SW NE and SE NW of Sec. 12, T12S R67W (BLM GLO, S-0080); the center of those tracts on the BLM PLSS grid, at today's North Gate of the Air Force Academy, where Lavelett puts the house. Good to about a quarter mile for the land; the house site is not marked.

Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.

## Sources

- S-0011: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0011
- S-0013: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0013
- S-0080: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0080
- S-0114: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0114
- S-0120: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0120
- S-0193: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0193

## Nearby

- [Reynolds Ranch House (Twin Oaks ranch)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/reynolds-ranch-house-twin-oaks-ranch/): 0.5 mi northeast
- [Dead Man's Creek (an 1860s 'bloody tragedy')](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dead-mans-creek-an-1860s-bloody-tragedy/): 0.5 mi southwest
- [East Husted (Santa Fe station)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/east-husted-santa-fe-station/): 0.5 mi southeast
- [Husted](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/husted/): 0.6 mi southwest
- [Southwater](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/southwater/): 0.9 mi northwest
- [James H. Shumate ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/james-h-shumate-ranch/): 1.0 mi southeast

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.