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141) Group portrait
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Group photo, left to right: Claude Carr, Frank Van Horn, Frank Long, Will Yates, Aunt Carrie Van Horn, Mayme Long, Grandma Lulu Carr. They are standing in front of a log building with two large windows. Curtains and flowers can be seen in the left window.
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A cabin belonging to Alex and Katherine [last name unknown] photographed in September of 1944.
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Voice Recording
In a recording made for his son, Don Rogers talks about his family’s cattle ranch on Pinon Mesa in the 1910’s, about getting lost in the wilderness at the age of six, about an expert tracker named Avery Burford who led the search party, and about being found the next morning after he spent the night alone on a sandbar of East Creek. He recalls a gunfight between cowboys Louis Stewart and Blue, a shooting by a man named Pete Lapham, and tensions...
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From the Shryack Family Collection. The individuals in the photo have not been identified, though they are likely related to, or associated with, the Shryack family. The postcard is undated, but was very likely created in the early 20th century at some time after 1904. If you have any information about the content of this item, please reach out to the EVLD Local History Librarian at history@evld.org or (970) 328-8800.
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Dick Lloyd talks about cattle ranching in Western Colorado both before and after the Taylor Grazing Act, about moving cattle around to different grazing areas in Colorado, and about shipping them to Denver by rail via the De Beque Stockyard. He speaks about training horses and using horses to herd cattle. Bertha Lloyd discusses her courtship with Dick, their chivaree and their marriage. The two of them describe homesteading in a log cabin on the Grand...
