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John Bunker pushing a lettuce planter on the Offerson Ranch.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
142. Chambers Ranch
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The Chambers Ranch at the mouth of Eby Creek in Eagle, Colorado. The white barn became the museum for the Eagle County Historical Society. The site with the buildings is now the Eagle interchange for I-70.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Alan Nottingham and his older sister, Winifred Nottingham Mason, standing at the entrance to the College Farm house. Across from Arrowhead in what is now Eagle-Vail, the College Farm was an agriculture experiment station for Colorado A & M College.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
144. Hay at Fenno Ranch
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Mounds of hay at the Fenno Ranch, Squaw Creek.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
145. Newell Buffehr
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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.
147. Conger Mesa
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View looking southwest from the Black Mountain Ranch in the direction of Castle Peak.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
148. Black Mountain Ranch
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The Black Mountain Ranch at this time had about 50 acres under cultivation, the balance of the 1,100 acres was pasture and timberland....John Ambos and his mother put in twenty years of hard work here, before selling the place to Willard Atwood in the spring of 1941. -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 245
"The main part of the ranch house on the Black Mountain Ranch was built by Tony Johannbroer in 1910, and the addition by John Ambos in 1928. Tony and his wife...
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"August 1950 Hayfield Eagle River Valley." Location appears to be near Red Point.
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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.]
151. Grain binder
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Grain binder with horse team and workers. The binder cuts the grain and binds it in sheaves.
152. Lester Watson
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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.
153. Clarence & the Kids
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Clarence Fair leans on a farm tool in his overalls with the children. The smaller children are Ross and Alice Chambers' children, Donna Louise and Donald, and Ladonna Fair stands in a hat. The Fair family lived and worked on the Chambers Ranch at this time. Clarence Fair also drove a dairy delivery truck for the Chambers family.
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Everett Howard's mother-in-law and his sister, Virgie, standing in front of a building. A crate of some sort is visible. The women are dressed for fieldwork, wearing overalls, hats, boots and gloves.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
155. Cutting hay
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Roland Bearden with a two-horse team cutting hay near Edwards.
156. Potato fields
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Rows of potato plants on the Offerson Ranch. Inscription states: "Another view of the spud patch in 1929."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Photo postcard of threshing grain on the Ambos Ranch. Surrounded by threshing equipment, Jim Jones, Martin Schomers, and L. E. Kirby are standing on the sorter platform.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
158. Nottingham Ranch
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The Nottingham Ranch in Avon, now Beaver Creek. Hay stacker at left. Barn and farm buildings at right.
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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.]