Barbara Gleason (Pearch) grooming her horse. "Louise: Did you do a lot of horseback riding?" Barbara: "I did when I could. I was spoiled rotten. I was twelve years old when they let me have a horse. Billy Tucker brought it down and gave it to me. It was a black mare and her colt that was old enough to wean, so I got the colt. ... My mare, when she grew up, had this beautiful gold colt. It was the first Palomino." -- Barbara Gleason Pearch: an Interview...

Barbara Gleason (Pearch) with a friend and two dogs, sitting in a yard. "The home I remember myself was...a block behind the Methodist Church. The parking lot that they have at the Methodist Church was my folk's pasture. They kept a milk cow in there and when I got older, I had a horse [on Second Street right up from Howard]." -- Barbara Gleason Pearch: an Interview Conducted by Louise B. Walker Nov. 10, 1998, p.2

Tom Pearch and Barbara Gleason standing on a church lawn on Sept. 16, 1947. They were married November 9, 1947 in Eagle. [Her obituary says Nov. 9, her oral history says Sept. 16] Tom was raised on Squaw Creek. He worked as a heavy equipment operator at Camp Hale and Climax but was probably most known for his work as an auctioneer. In 1950, Tom and Barbara bought the Bert Billings house on Brush Creek so that they could have horses and live out...

Barbara Gleason (Pearch) and friend standing next to an automobile. The west side of Broadwas street in Eagle is visible in the background.