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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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The owner of the Trading Post and Ellis "Bearcat" Bearden (on right), astride the buffalo at the Battle Mountain Trading Post in Minturn.
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Ellis, in uniform, Elizabeth, Rolland and Ray Bearden in front of the truck at the Bearden place.
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The Bearden Meadows sign at the Cordillera development on the Bearden Ranch.
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At the corner of Bearden Road and Elk Creek Trail at Cordillera.
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The Bearden cabin with Ellis Bearden's pickup truck parked on the road behind it.
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Ray, Ellis and Rolland Bearden with elk at the Bearden place.
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Aerial view of Bellyache and the Bearden property. Ellis Bearden's place is at upper left. The Pearch place was just north of that property.
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Branding calves on the Bearden place. From left, from left Rolland, Ellis and Ray Bearden.
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Branding calves on the Bearden place. From left, from left Rolland, Ellis and Ray Bearden.
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Cordillera development on the Bearden Ranch.
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A view of Cordillera taken in 1985.
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Cut logs on a wagon, ready for transport.
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Roland Bearden with a two-horse team cutting hay near Edwards.
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Studio portrait of Elizabeth C. Diamond [Bearden], wearing a knit dress and pearls. "She was the daughter of Thomas and Catherine Diamond, born September 3, 1898, in Leadville. She was educated at St. Mary's School in Leadville and attended Western State College in Gunnison. Following competion of her formal education, Miss Diamond entered the teaching profession. ... It was while she was teaching in the Squaw Creek school that she met and married...
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Ellis "Bearcat" Bearden, rancher in the Squaw Creek Valley until his death in 1993. "The equestrian center at Cordillera bears his name and is located on the land his family homesteaded when Bearcat was just a toddler. The humble log buildings the family used as their ranching headquarters still stand, and are targeted for preservation by the Cordillera Preservation Foundation. Bearcat Springs, a small tributary to Squaw Creek, also carries his...
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Ellis Bearden with the catch of the day.
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Ellis Bearden standing with woman and ox cart somewhere in rural France/Belgium .
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Ellis Bearden with Elton's 4-H Club calf. Photo taken Sept. 30, 1941.
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Ellis Bearden next to his truck after elk hunting.