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Horse teams turning furrows while harvesters fill sacks with potatoes on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
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Early Gypsum where tents provided original services: hotel, stores, saloon, restaurant. Meals at the Eagle Hotel were 35 cents, a bed was 25 cents. All of these services were located across from the train depot. The location is close to present day Railroad Ave. and Second Street. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Newell Buffehr confronting a horse team pulling a hay wagon on the Buffehr ranch. Behind them, a man is standing on a haystack. Newell was cited as one of six landowners in the Gore Creek Valley in 1959 by Dick Hauserman [Inventors of Vail p.7]: "John Hanson, Gust Kaihtipes, Pete Katsos, Henry Anholtz, Newell Buffehr, and Jay Pulis." Newell and his wife Mary moved to Denver for Mary's health. She died in 1962.
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Loading 100# sacks of potatoes onto wagon at the Shryack Place (also called the Mosher Place) on lower Brush Creek. From there, the sacks would be taken to "spud" cellars. Two horse team is pulling the wagon; farm buildings in left background.
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"Stage fare from Wolcott to McCoy was $2.00, to Yampa, $4.00 and to Steamboat, $7.00. Light baggage was carried free." -- McCoy Memoirs p.25 Photo labled both 1890 [verso] and 1900. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"During the winter of 1916-1917, there was considerable snow in the McCoy area and for several weeks sleds were a popular mode of transportation. Here, Arthur, Pete, Mabel and Lulu Horn are leaving on the two and one half mile ride to McCoy for mail and supplies." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 115 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Grain binder with horse team and workers. The binder cuts the grain and binds it in sheaves.
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A closer look at Lester Watson seated on a grain drill with a two-horse team at Kent, 1919. The three pines marking Kent are on the hillside in the distance.
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A couple in a buggy drawn by a horse team on their way through Glenwood Canyon. A large rock is balanced in the background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The road crew that worked on the stage coach roads to keep them open. Horse teams are harnessed to scrapers.
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Mildred and Everett Howard at their Bachelor Gulch home on a load of logs from McCoy Park. The load is on a sled pulled by a 2-horse team. Mildred is seated and Everett is standing holding the reins to the horse team. The sled bobs with bolsters are clearly visible. Mertz cabin in left background; Howard house in right background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Building the Derby Mesa Road, circa 1923. Workers with skids and horse teams at right, waiting for the detonation to clear at left.
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Roland Bearden with a two-horse team cutting hay near Edwards.
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July 25, 1914, first cutting of hay on the Sherman Brothers Ranch. Yield: 92 ton 800 # from 17 acres. Men are moving hay with pitchforks from wagons. Hay stack in background.
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Guy Cates, Doc Rodgers and Ed Rodgers loading lettuce at Bachelor Gulch. Cates is standing next to the wagon loaded with lettuce crates; the other men are in the wagon. A two-horse team pulls the wagon. A tall pine stands at midground. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]

76. Plowing

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Two men, each with a 3-horse team, are plowing. From the skyline, this appears to be the Eagle/Brush Creek area.
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"John Winslow at his ranch on Cottonwood Creek, Sheephorn, 1906." -- verso caption [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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A team of horses (Bill and Tom) pulling a sled of wood in the canyon above Black Mountain Ranch, 1928. Cabins visible in background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Driver with horse team hauling full potato sacks during the harvest on Bobson Ranch near Gypsum. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Everett Howard holding the reins of his horse team (Don and Chubb, as identified by Mamie Rodgers) while standing on timber sled. The sled is empty. Caption reads "after unloading logs at depot." Snow on the ground. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]