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Photo postcard looking down on Eagle, Colorado. The Eagle River is at lower left; Brush Creek Valley is at right midfield. Highway 6 runs from left to right across the midfield. The County courthouse is the square building at right midfield, placing this photograph after 1932.
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Photo postcard looking down on H. K. Brooks' Bar X Ranch, Eagle, Colorado. The Eagle River is at the bottom of the photo.
Hollis "Holly" Kelloway Brooks came to Eagle County from Minnesota, settling first in McCoy and then operating a general store in Edwards. From 1926 to 1929, he was the County treasurer. In 1931 and through the 1940s, he owned and operated the Bar X Ranch (formerly the Castle Peak Ranch) in Eagle.
Before Brooks, the ranch...
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A view of Eagle looking north up the Eby Creek drainage, taken on September 23, 1900. Developed by Otis Ping in Albatou, Iowa, on September 27, 1900. The Methodist Church is at far right midground; Castle Peak is at far right top.
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Ranchers taking cattle to summer pastures in the Frying Pan River Valley.
5) Bull Pasture
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The "Bull Pasture" housing development, circa 1983. This area was used for pasturing bulls used in breeding, prior to the housing development, and was the site of the Eagle County Rodeo for many years.
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Photo looking north on H. K. Brooks' Bar X Ranch, Eagle, Colorado. The Eagle River is at the bottom of the photo; Castle Peak is at the midpoint along the skyline.
Hollis "Holly" Kelloway Brooks came to Eagle County from Minnesota, settling first in McCoy and then operating a general store in Edwards. From 1926 to 1929, he was the County treasurer. In 1931 and through the 1940s, he owned and operated the Castle Peak ranch (Bar X) in Eagle.
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7) McCoy Area
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Looking at the McCoy area from the south side of the Colorado River. There appears to be a man and an antler in the left foreground. Photo was taken August 23, 1975.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Summer Range, Johnson Brothers Ranch, Edd Johnson
Inscription on photo postcard: "Who is Edd? Your brother? What a beautiful scene. The cattle remind me of my Harveys. He had a small heard of these cattle. F. J. Morse"
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A closer look at the barn at H. K. Brooks' Castle Peak Ranch. The cattle are eating at feeders at mid-field.
Hollis "Holly" Kelloway Brooks came to Eagle County from Minnesota, settling first in McCoy and then operating a general store in Edwards. From 1926 to 1929, he was the County treasurer. In 1931 and through the 1940s, he owned and operated the Castle Peak ranch (Bar X) in Eagle.
Before Brooks, the ranch was sold by John Carey in September...
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Cheri and Sam Robinson standing in front of their sheep camp at Ptarmigan Pass, August 1991. The Robinsons, from Piceance Creek (near Rifle, Colorado), run their sheep in Summer pastures around Pando (Camp Hale), Colorado.
The Robinson's created a poster for the Pathfinder Camporee (1985), held at Camp Hale, Colorado, featuring their sheep grazing in the remains of the Army Camp. [Poster in EVLD's Rare collection: RAREdr 978.844 P2975]
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Breeding cows taken in summer pasture, Ed and Charles Johnson, Colorado (cousins) (this photo is number 7771 Dave Risk Photos, 220 W. 12th St. Kansas city, MO)
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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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Photo postcard looking northeast of James E. Ullman's Castle Peak Ranch in Eagle. Ullman bought the ranch from John Carey in September 1919 for $28,000. It included ninety acres of farming land in the home place and included summer range on Castle. [EVE Sept. 19, 1919 p.1]
The ranch was purchased by Holly Brooks in 1931.
14) Peaceful pasture
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This photograph is featured with a group under the heading "Fine Peaceful Pastures" in the Edwards School Scrapbook, page 15. The scrapbook was completed as a youth citizens' league project between 1954-1955.
15) Peaceful pasture
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"Fine peaceful pastures" - caption from Edwards School Scrapbook, page 15. The scrapbook was created as a youth citizens' league project between 1954-1955. An unidentified man on a horse watches over a group of heifers and several calves on open range.
This photograph has been edited to remove black corners used to secure the item in the scrapbook.
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Two young calves stand with a horse in a muddy pasture. There is a shed to the right in the background, along with fences, trees, and a mountain backdrop.
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"Brush Creek. The fence was north boundry [boundary] line to our 500 ac[re] farm. The Old Familiar Hills where my childhood days were spent, the old pasture and mts [mountains] I climbed cedar trees and called or barked to coyotes across the Valley." -- Alda Borah
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The Arthur Horn Ranch on Lower Rock Creek, looking north east toward Conger Mesa (near McCoy).
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Arthur Horn Ranch as seen from Conger Mesa, looking south west (Lower Rock Creek).
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
