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From left, Harriet Nelson, Kate Flynn, Cecil and Dell stealing strawberries at Ed Watson's place, 4th of July 1918.
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Large meadow area of Beaver Creek with piles of hay ready for stacking. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Tiny Carter holds onto a calf. Another cow is behind her along the fenceline on the right. There is a dirt track or road on the left side of the photograph.

164. 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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"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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"This house was home to Mr. and Mrs. Judd Lyon and their daughter Florence for fifteen years and a number of other families for several years afterwards." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 280 "After the Lyon family left the ranch in Yarmony Park, several different people owned it. Among these later owners were Harry Groh, Roy Sherwood, and Buzz Mugrage. The Lyon ranch was dryland, like many others in the Park, and there was no chance of getting irrigation...
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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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Photo postcard of the Horn Ranch taken from the top of Table Rock. [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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As the Doll Brothers ranch grew in size, brothers Frank and Sam built this three-story flour mill, circa 1900. "Considered modern in its time, the mill ground all wheat produced in the area, putting out 80 barrels a day. The mill even imported wheat to grind. After the mill burned, suspicion followed that the fire had been deliberately set by disgruntled businessmen in the area." -- Shirley Welch, The Eagle River Valley, p.114 [Title supplied...
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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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Looking south from Tunnel 49 into Lower Egeria Canyon. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Threshing equipment with two men operating the machinery on the Offerson Ranch (near the weaning sheds on Wayne Creek). [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The camel-back bridge over the Eagle River on U.S. Hwy 6 & 24, approximately 5-6 miles east of Eagle, Colorado.Behind the train, is the Leonard Horn ranch with ranch houses to the left of the tall pine tree at center. Rube Creek flows by the ranch houses. The dirt road at left goes to the ranch.
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"Growers inspecting experimental plots of lettuce and peas at College Farm, Avon." In: High Altitude Vegetable Growing: Lettuce--Cauliflower--Peas, by R. A. McGinty. Fort Collins, Colorado Experiment Station, Horticultural Division, Bulletin No. 309, May, 1926. p.28.
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International Overshot Stacker throwing hay onto haystack. during haying, Beecher Gulch Place.
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View of the Eagle ice skating rink looking south from the corner of 5th and Washington Streets. Beyond the rink is Mayer's pasture. The pasture became the Bull Pasture and the Mayer addition to the Town of Eagle. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Hot Springs Pool in Glenwood Springs, looking east.
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Lena Sansoti (Yost) poses with her 4H chickens in 1939. Lena would marry George Yost on December 4, 1946 in Eagle.