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Potato plants and shed at the Fenno Ranch, Squaw Creek.
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post-1920: Squaw Creek School, showing entry, bell tower, and side of building.
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Louis and Edith Fenno standing next to their home at Squaw Creek.
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Purley Bertroch and Ellis Bearden (on right) standing in front of a pickup truck. Purley worked on the family farm in Gypsum until World War II, when he served in the First Cavalry, U.S. Army. After that, he worked as a carpenter, general contractor and developer throughout Eagle County.
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Potato fields on the Fenno Ranch; automobile parked in foreground.
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Five generations of the Fenno family.
Back row: John and Clifford
Middle row: Edith, Florene, Mary
Seated: Barbara (Louis' wife) and her children
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Bert Yandell and his dog, Pal, across the valley from Squaw Creek. Bert is carrying books and a lunch pail in his left arm. Ranch buildings are in the background.
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28. Bearden men
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Ray, Ellis and Rolland Bearden with elk at the Bearden place.
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1900s: Front view of the Squaw Creek School house, showing front entrace, bell tower and chimney. Snow on ground.
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Ellis "Bearcat" Bearden, rancher in the Squaw Creek Valley until his death in 1993.
"The equestrian center at Cordillera bears his name and is located on the land his family homesteaded when Bearcat was just a toddler. The humble log buildings the family used as their ranching headquarters still stand, and are targeted for preservation by the Cordillera Preservation Foundation. Bearcat Springs, a small tributary to Squaw Creek, also carries his...
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Cecyl Bea and Dog Hughes sitting on the ground. Doug is holding a duck and ducklings are in the foreground. Fencing is visible in the background.
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The Sam and Betty Carter home at Carterville at Squaw Creek. The house was built in the 1950s.
"When Sam and Russell grew up, they fell in love with the Terry sisters, Betty and Wanda, who had lived at both Squaw and Lake Creeks. After their marriages, the four built cabins at Carterville and raised another generation of Carter children" -- June Simonton, The First Pioneers: a Squaw Creek History, p. 27
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33. Feeding horses
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Feeding horses on the Bearden place. The driver of the team is probably Roland J. Bearden.
34. Family on hill
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A family on a hill at Squaw Creek.
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35. Alfalfa cutting
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Fall cutting of alfalfa on the Pearch place using a two-horse team. There is a couple standing to the left of the horses, the woman holding a child on her hip. [Thomas Pearch was born in 1917 so it could be he.] A boy is seated on the seat of the cutter with a woman standing next to him.
Vern (Elmo Levern) Pearch was born in 1878 and came to Leadville in 1881. Several years later, he located a homestead on Squaw creek. "He was always interested...
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Maybelle Yandell and Doug Hughes are standing next to each other with Bert Yandell standing behind them. A log building is in the background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
37. Ranch equipment
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Ranch equipment at the Bearden place.
38. Cordillera
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Cordillera development on the Bearden Ranch.
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Studio portrait of Edith and Louis A. Fenno, most likely a wedding portrait.
Edith Nilson and Louis Alton Fenno were raised and married in Leadville, Colorado. In 1910, they moved to Squaw Creek and in 1912, Fenno filed on a homestead there. They had three children: Mary, Ida and Louis C. Fenno. Louis died on Feb. 17, 1961; Edith died on Mar. 6, 1973.
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40. Old Blum Place
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Landscape view of the Old Blum Place near Squaw Creek (now owned by C. K. Thomas), built in the 1880s. Blum ran sheep on his property. Snow on ground. Barbed wire fencing in foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]