All Eagle Valley Library District locations will be closed on Monday, May 27, 2024 in observance of Memorial Day. Regular library hours will resume Tuesday, May 28, 2024.

Cora and Joe Carter, standing in front of an automobile in Leadville, Colorado. The license plate is for 1942. "Sam and Russell's mother was Cora Fenno (daughter of Emma Fenno Graham), who married Joe Carter in Leadville in 1904. Soon after that, the two took up a homestead in the pretty draw that bears their name. They continued living in Leadville, 'proving up' on the land during the summer. Then in the 1920s, they built a two-story white clapboard...