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Emma Newby Edwards and Alta Edwards [Bush Holland], Emma's sister-in-law, waiting for a race to start. Both women are on horseback, Emma on Lady, Alta on Pinto.
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Ray Miller (brown shirt) with horses that will pull the Continental Oil Company wagon during a 4th of July parade.
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Caption: "John K. Edwards, father of Joe W. Edwards. He is at Joe's homestead on Bellyache near Foxe's sawmill." The horses appear to be carrying fuel containers.
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Joe Edwards at far left. The men are sorting potatoes by size into sacks, the sorting equipment being pulled by a horse.
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Tera Miller with sled and horse team at his place on Bellyache Mountain. Winter weather. Lettuce crates are stacked and covered behind him.
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"Robin as a colt" standing with Laura Miller. Laura went on to become a renowned barrel racer.
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Emma Mae Newby, Esther Edwards Rogers' mother, on horseback, Bellyache Mountain. Emma Newby was Joseph T. (Tera aka Terry) Miller's stepdaughter. Her father died when she was 5. Caption: "She was sure going high and crooked." "I am not sure of the dates my family came to Eagle, but checking online homestead and census records, I found the Edwards family in the 1910 census in Colorado Springs and in 1919 to 1922 in Eagle County homestead records. I...
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Horses pulling the Continental Oil Co. wagon during a 4th of July parade.
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Marty Miller on horse. Photo is facing south, west of Arrowhead. [processing date Mar 1967]
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Esther Edwards [Rogers] chewing on a head of lettuce while supported by her uncle, Ellis Miller. Crates of picked lettuce are in the background. Esther was born in November 1925 on Bellyache Mountain. "Dr. Rucker failed to register my birth. It's not clear to me why that was. ... However, it did cause one problem when I tried to get a birth certificate in order to get a passport." -- Esther Rogers March 3, 2013
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Caption: "Lettuce patch, Bellyache Mtn, Eagle County 1923-26." Horse team in back is pulling a wagon on which the crates will be loaded.
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Merell Holland and horses. Merell Holland was Alta Edwards' husband. Alta married Malcolm T. Bush in 1925 in Garfield County. In 1928, she married Merell Holland. They had a daughter, Frances Holland (not born on Bellyache).
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Caption: "Tera Miller working in field on Bellyache ranch in Eagle County, Colorado." Miller is planting lettuce seed which is very tiny. The plants will need to be thinned once they're up and established.
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Caption: "Joe Edwards--his homestead on Bellyache near Foxe's sawmill before he and Emma married." The horses appear to be carrying fuel containers.
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Ellis Miller, half-brother to Emma Newby Edwards, seated on a horse with his nephew, Joseph Klyde Edwards riding in front. The family cabins are in the background.
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"My Maize P- Mother of the stallion and one of her colts" Original house and shed in the background.
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Emma Mae Newby on horseback. Snow on Bellyache Mountain. Emma taught school at the little log school house on Bellache.
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Ray Miller in front of the family house on the Miller Ranch (now Singletree).
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Ed Miller with a small horse. Ed was a chef and he, with his wife, Julia, managed the staff house at Gilman, in addition to doing some catering. His sister was Ruth Miller Caddy of Eagle.
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Emma Newby Edwards and Joe Edwards with their son, Joseph K. [Little Joe], who was born in 1924. The horse team is hitched to a wagon filled with lettuce crates.