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"Stacking alfalfa hay with a Mormon stacker on the Conger Mesa Schrupp ranch in 1912. In those days, after hay was cut and raked it was first put in shocks and when ready to be stacked it was loaded on slips or wagons with a fork after hay slings had been placed on the bed of the slip or wagon. Arriving at the stack yard, the stacker, operated by the same horses that brought in the load, picks up the sling load of hay, raises and swings it around...
62) Town of Eagle
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The town of Eagle taken from the Eby Creek area. Highway 6 runs through the photo, with the major main street, Broadway, at center, dead-ending into Chester Mayer's ranch (now the Bull Pasture and Eagle Ranch subdivisions). Chambers Ranch is at the lower right corner, the big white barn now housing the Eagle County Historical Society Museum. The Eagle River runs from left to right with the railroad bridge over the river at midground. Brush Creek...
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The John J. Ambos homestead and cabin.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
64) Branding
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Branding calves on the Bearden place. From left, from left Rolland, Ellis and Ray Bearden.
65) Hayers with team
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Two men with pitchforks, loading a hay wagon drawn by a horse team on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
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Seven hogs rooting in the hog pen on the Chester Mayer ranch. Fencing, corrals and outbuilding in the distance.
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Hay field with cut hay on the Bar-Gay Ranch, Edwards, Colorado. Horse team at midfield.
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"Just across Rock Creek Canyon from the Ebert place on Conger Mesa, Bert Hadley took up a 160 acre homestead and built this house on it in 1905. Prior to that year, he had married Huldah LaForce and they had spent a part of their honeymoon on the former Milby Frazer place at the head of Egeria Canyon. Bert, who was in poor health, did not live long enough to realize his dream of transforming the homestead into a cattle ranch. After his death, about...
69) Lloyd Ranch
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"Chicago businessman Clyde Lloyd purchased the Sherman Brothers Ranch (east of town) in 1922. He and his stepson Wayne T. Jones called the operation 'Red Mountain Ranch' and were known for annually hosting one of the largest Hereford sales in the state. Clyde's brother and sister-in-law, Carl and Ella, were the caretakers for the ranch. Located about 4 miles east of Eagle, the property featured a magnificent ranch house (which burned to the ground...
70) 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.]
72) 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.
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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.
75) 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.]
76) 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 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.]
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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.]
80) 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....
