What we know
James H. Shumate came in 1873, built 'a log room, 14x16', where he lived for a year, and for five years supplied the hotel at Manitou with butter. In 1879 he started 'a store at what is now Husted', sold $70,000 of goods in the summers of 1881 and 1882 and was postmaster for six years; in 1899 he was clerk and trustee of the Husted Baptist Church (PBR 1899, S-0192, pp. 658-662). McGrath's The Real Pioneers of Colorado (1934) says he accumulated 1,400 acres near Husted (S-0200).
Where it was
Shumate's homestead patent of Jan. 10, 1888: W1/2 NW and NE NW of Sec. 18, T12S R66W, and SE NE of Sec. 13, T12S R67W (BLM GLO, S-0080), the land around the range line that his 1899 sketch calls 'section 13, township 12, range 67 west' (PBR 1899, S-0192, p. 658); center of those tracts on the BLM PLSS grid. Good to about a quarter mile.
Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.
Sources
- S-0080: General Land Office land patents, Bureau of Land Management (glorecords.blm.gov)
- S-0120: Bureau of Land Management, National Public Land Survey System (PLSS) data: CadNSDI section and quarter-section polygons, Colorado
- S-0192: Portrait and Biographical Record of the State of Colorado (Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1899)
- S-0200: Maria Davies McGrath, The Real Pioneers of Colorado, vols. 1-3 (Denver: Denver Museum, 1934; CWA Project No. 551), as retyped for the Denver Public Library Western History and Genealogy Department by Jane P. Ohl, October 2001
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.