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Branding calves on the Bearden place. From left, from left Rolland, Ellis and Ray Bearden.
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Full sacks of potatoes, lined up on wagon, ready for storage or shipping. A man rests on a sack for the photo, taken on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
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"Pioneers Mary and Frank Groh on their still unimproved ranch on Rock Creek, below McCoy [1/4 mile south] in [May] 1891. The man to the right of Mr. Groh is unidentified but the man doing the driving is Sam Elliott." -- McCoy Memoirs p.121 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Horse teams turning furrows while harvesters fill sacks with potatoes on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
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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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Two hands are picking up potatoes and throwing them on the sorter, which is pulled by a horse. Ed Schrupp is at the back of the sorter, filling sacks. Other horses and sorters are seen at right background. [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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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.]
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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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"Mrs. William Johannbroer beside a new potato digger. Four horses were required to pull one of these." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 234 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Kay Carter stands in a corral/barnyard with a horse.
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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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Steer roping during the Eagle County Fair & Rodeo, 2013.
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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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Haying on the Beecher Gulch Place. Mr. Cain is driving the buck rake horse team in right foreground. Fred Dice is on the haystack, distributing the hay from the International Overshot Stacker. Tractor in background, possibly driven by Joe Dice.
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Crates of lettuce stacked on wagon being hauled from Bellyache. Four-horse team is pulling the wagon; driver sitting on top of crates. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]