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Looking across a field in Bachelor Gulch with a hayrick in midground, fencing in foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Field of lettuce being irrigated on experimental farm at Avon. Note irrigation furrows halfway between rows."
In: High Altitude Vegetable Growing: Lettuce--Cauliflower--Peas, by R. A. McGinty. Fort Collins, Colorado Experiment Station, Horticultural Division, Bulletin No. 309, May, 1926. p.13.
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Fred Dice seated on John Deere tractor with buck rake on front. Haying season on the Schlutter Place, Brush Creek.
85) Garden Tilling
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Bob & Mary Jo Trezise watching their father, Robert, till their garden with horses, Dick and King. There is a swingset in the left background and a sandbox in the right foreground.
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The Gay-Bar (Clark) Ranch as seen from Bellyache Mountain, October 1949. Highway 24, the Eagle River, and WIlmor[e] Lake are all visible at midground. Hay stack visible in closest field. [color degradation]
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The George Harris Ranch house in Yarmony Park in 1920. George married Julia Koski in 1915 and they filed on a 320 acre homestead in the southeast corner of Yarmony Park in 1916. "Julia's half brother and sisters, Frank, Sophia and Mary of Denver spent part of every year with them. Mary attended Yarmony School for several years in the early 1920's." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.290
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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.
90) Gerard Group
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Three men drive cattle down a dirt road. On the far right is Keith Gerard with a stray calf in front of him.
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Tiny Carter holds onto a calf. Another cow is behind her along the fenceline on the right. There is a dirt track or road on the left side of the photograph.
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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.]
94) Grain binder
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Grain binder with horse team and workers. The binder cuts the grain and binds it in sheaves.
95) 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
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"Growers inspecting experimental plots of lettuce and peas at College Farm, Avon."
In: High Altitude Vegetable Growing: Lettuce--Cauliflower--Peas, by R. A. McGinty. Fort Collins, Colorado Experiment Station, Horticultural Division, Bulletin No. 309, May, 1926. p.28.
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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."...
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Guy Cates and Aunt Teddy Tolbey standing in lettuce field at Bachelor Gulch. Used on p. 60, Beaver Creek: the first one hundred years, by June Simonton.
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As the Doll Brothers ranch grew in size, brothers Frank and Sam built this three-story flour mill, circa 1900. "Considered modern in its time, the mill ground all wheat produced in the area, putting out 80 barrels a day. The mill even imported wheat to grind. After the mill burned, suspicion followed that the fire had been deliberately set by disgruntled businessmen in the area." -- Shirley Welch, The Eagle River Valley, p.114
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100) Gypsum cliffs
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A view of the gypsum cliffs with the Fleck Ditch flume in foreground and the road running below the ditch.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
