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121) Family camp
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A family camp near Edwards, Colorado. The man was working in the lettuce sheds and his family was camping nearby.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
122) Men in hay field
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"Ranchers look over the first cutting of hay on July 24, 1914, at the Sherman ranch east of Eagle. Alfalfa and Timoth hay were among the crops that thrived in the mountain valley climate." -- Early Eagle, by Kathy Heicher p.51
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"The Martin Schomers ranch, as it looked in December of 1919. It was the twenty-fifth of April before this snow was all gone." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 263
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
124) Planting lettuce
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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.
125) Branding
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Branding calves on the Bearden place. From left, from left Rolland, Ellis and Ray Bearden.
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Poultry at the Bearden place. There are five unidentified individuals and a dog in the photograph.
127) Sacks of potatoes
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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.
128) Conger Mesa
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The upper end of Conger Mesa showing the crater as viewed from Tunnel 49.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
129) Brooks Water Wheel
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Restoring the Brooks Water Wheel in the fall of 1993.
"This past week, while Comer was reading a morning newspaper in his home, he heard a major crashing noise and immediately knew his beloved water wheel was taken out by the mighty high waters of the Colorado River." -- Raymond Bleesz, History in Need of Repair, Vail Daily June 4, 2014 p.A2
130) Groh 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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Potato harvest on Bobson Ranch, Gypsum Creek. Four unidentified men are in a field, potatoes bagged and ready for transport.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Potato fields on the Johannbroer Ranch. Pershing Post Office is on the left. Discrepancy in dates. Photo is labeled 1932, but the caption in McCoy Memoirs says 1928.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
133) Irrigating potatoes
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Jesse Sherman, at left, owner of the Sherman Brothers Ranch, standing next to Skeet Koger, doing the irrigating of the potato crop. The potatoe types were "Red McClure and Ohio."
By Marie Louise Ryan
Special to The Sopris Sun
"In the late 1800s Thomas McClure left his family against their wishes. He did so with a single motivation: to strike out on his own in the New World. He sold a prize brood sow to buy passage from Little Kenny, Ireland, and...
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Uncle Frank Montgomery and William (father) Eaton on McCoy Creek Ranch. The men are standing in front of a huge haystack with other haystacks visible.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
135) Yarmony Park
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"Yarmony Park and Black Mountin, from Yarmony Mountain. Charley McCoy's upper ranch and reservoir on Yarmony Creek in the foreground. The former Leonard Hudson place lies just above the reservoir, the Harris and Lyon ranches partly hidden in back of the tree. The Babcock homestead is located on the extreme left. The two white spots are late May snow drifts." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 278
Mishler and Ball were the first homesteaders, filing in 1892....
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"Lettuce fertilizer plots, experimental farm, Avon. Elevation, 8,000 feet."
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.10.
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Horse teams turning furrows while harvesters fill sacks with potatoes on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
138) Dan Rule and steer
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Dan Rule holding potatoes in a Brush Creek field.
[Photo developed Oct. 9, 1941, Ping's Station, Eagle, Colorado]
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"The Bill Johannbroer Ranch on Conger Mesa in 1970." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 235
"Billy Johannbroer was a locomotive engineer on the Clear Creek Branch of the Colorado and Southern Railroad. He did very little active work on his homestead. His wife and children, Bill, Lillian and Kenneth, were the chief ranchers with Billy only being able to help during his vacations and during slack railroad seasons.
Bill Jr. married Verna Ray, daughter of Daniel...
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Bruce Beck, seated on a tractor, while working on the Erickson Ranch.
