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Tera Miller with sled and horse team at his place on Bellyache Mountain. Winter weather. Lettuce crates are stacked and covered behind him.
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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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Charles Crawford with his team, Brownie on left and Trix on right, ready to harrow a field at Kent.
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Workers digging and sacking potatoes in the field. Two horses with potato boxes are at the right with field workers sacking from the boxes. A horse team is at the left, possibly digging potatoes.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Esther Edwards [Rogers] chewing on a head of lettuce while supported by her uncle, Ellis Miller. Crates of picked lettuce are in the background.
Esther was born in November 1925 on Bellyache Mountain. "Dr. Rucker failed to register my birth. It's not clear to me why that was. ... However, it did cause one problem when I tried to get a birth certificate in order to get a passport." -- Esther Rogers March 3, 2013
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George Ziegler (l), horses Nell and Trilby, and a ranch hand in Eagle, 1914. George is holding a hat over Nell's head; Trilby is wearing a hat. The horses are yoked as a team.
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Grace and Emmett Nottingham standing on sledge drawn by horse team in front of the old house in Avon. Dog and cats are around the sledge. View is to the northwest overlooking the future Avon town site. Railroad track visible in background. Harry Nottingham place at Buck Creek is in right background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
9) Grain binder
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Grain binder with horse team and workers. The binder cuts the grain and binds it in sheaves.
10) 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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Guy Barnes hauling hay with a team of horses and wagon.
"Guy Barnes was hired as a herdsman by a man named Andrew Christiansen. Mr. Christiansen raised Hereford cattle and needed someone to help with caring for the cattle. Mr. Barnes cared for the cattle on Mr. Christiansen's land in town during the Winter but during the late Spring, Summer and early Fall, Barne's job took him to Mr. Christiansen's cattle on pasture eleven miles North of town."...
12) Harvesting oats
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"Harvesting a good crop of oats on the Arthur Horn ranch in 1916. Along with the assurance of an ample supply of irrigation water out of Rock Creek, this soil is very productive. In the background is Table Rock, a lava formation separating Rock and Egeria Creeks. The top of the rock is mostly sagebrush with some cedars and pinyons scattered through it. Until 1950 there was clear evidence of an Indian arrowhead makers' camp including a round area about...
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1900-1910: Team of three horses pulling a cutter harvesting oats on the Sherman Ranch near Eagle, Colorado. Driver's head and whip visible.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Disk harvester pulled by a team of horses is harvesting potatoes on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
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Crates of lettuce stacked on wagon being hauled from Bellyache. Four-horse team is pulling the wagon; driver sitting on top of crates.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
16) Hauling potatoes
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"Ammi Hoyt on his way to a railroad siding with a load of potatoes for shipment to market. Until 1925 most potatoes were still being hauled by horse drawn wagons, but shortly afterwards hauling was done by trucks." -- McCoy Memoirs p.199
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
17) 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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Mowing alfalfa using horse teams on the Mayer Ranch at the south end of the town of Eagle. (This ranch property is developed and is called the "Bull Pasture.") There are three teams, each pulling a cutter on which sits a team driver. The first team is driven by Ralph Robertson, Allan Hibbs is next driving the mules, and Frank Hulett is on the back team
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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July 25, 1914, first cutting of hay on the Sherman Brothers Ranch. The crew is posed on the tongue of the slide stacker. Hay is poised on the stacker in the background, with hayers and pitchforks ready to move it onto the haystack.
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July 25, 1914, first cutting of hay on the Sherman Brothers Ranch. Yield: 92 ton 800 # from 17 acres. Men are moving hay with pitchforks from wagons. Hay stack in background.
