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"Bud & Betsy" (caption from photo album)
"Bud" is Duane Larsen kneels down with a calf named Betsy. Duane is wearing a cowboy hat and there is a fenceline in the background.
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Two winners and their handlers from the stock judging at the Eagle County Fair in 1939. The cattle are facing to the right in the photo. Watching behind them are other contestants, ranchers, and judges. The Fair was held west of the Eagle County Courthouse.
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"The eye-pleasing scene, as they moved 300 cattle down the Derby Loop road against a mountain backdrop including distinctive Dome Peak, W Mountain and King Mountain, probably varied little from cattle shipping operations a half century ago."
Heicher, Kathy. The Cattle Drive: Burns Hole cowboys mix tradition and technology. Photographer Mike Rawlings. Vail Trail, November 24, 1989, p.16-19.
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Sitting on a rail after the work is done.
Heicher, Kathy. The Cattle Drive: Burns Hole cowboys mix tradition and technology. Photographer Mike Rawlings. Vail Trail, November 24, 1989, p.16-19.
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Albert Smith, wearing boots and hat, standing in a snowy field behind a Hereford. His hands are on the cow's back .
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Albert Smith feeding cattle near Wayne Creek corrals. Snow is on the ground. Aspens and fence are visible in the background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"No doubt, quite a number of ranchers still living will remember that Grandaddy of all winters, 1919-1920 when stockmen were forced to start feeding hay a month earlier than usual and only a very few had enough feed to see their stock through the winter and a late, late Spring. Several cattlemen of the McCoy area were out of hay before the first of April, when there was still from twelve to thirty inches of snow on the ground. Rather than seeing their...
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The Bailey Family log cabin with cows standing on the roof. Shovel is leaning up against the rock chimney.
10) Boots
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A pair of authentic cowboy boots, photographed at the Burns stockyard pens.
Heicher, Kathy. The Cattle Drive: Burns Hole cowboys mix tradition and technology. Photographer Mike Rawlings. Vail Trail, November 24, 1989, p.16-19.
11) Branding
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Branding calves on the Bearden place. From left, from left Rolland, Ellis and Ray Bearden.
12) Branding
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Branding calves on the Bearden place. From left, from left Rolland, Ellis and Ray Bearden.
15) Branding Time
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"In the old days, all the neighbors helped each other." -- The Gates Genealogy
16) Branding Time
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"Branding meant a lot of hard work. They would bunch the cattle out in an open area. The men that were good ropers roped the calves and brought them to the branding fire. They worked without the help of chutes and corrals unless the cattle were close to the ranch buildings." -- The Gates Genealogy
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"Branding and dehorning cattle on the Charley McCoy Ranch in 1908 [Yarmony Creek ranch]. Left to right: John Payne, Charley McCoy, Everett Hoyt, Fred Bailey, Ammi Hoyt, Lawrence Payne, Edgar Sperry and Ethel McCoy on the horse." -- McCoy Memoirs p.105
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Ranch hands branding cattle in a fenced pasture on the Norman Ranch (between Burns and McCoy).
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Sheephorn Creek, 1915. Spring branding on the Clarence Rundell ranch. Left to right: CHarley Gutzler, Carl Forster, Frank McMillan, Bill Tester, Clarence Rundell, Dr. Sidell and Ward Ross." -- McCoy Memoirs p.317
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
20) Branding calves
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"Henry Creek 1915, Left to right: Leander Hoyt, Mr. Johnson, Warren Henry, Everett Hoyt." -- verso
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
