Cordillera, Colorado
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Maybelle "Dickie" Yandell [Frankele] on left, standing next to Betty Ray. The girls are holding flowers together. The log building behind them has a sod roof.
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The Bearden Meadows sign at the Cordillera development on the Bearden Ranch.
3) Doug Hughes
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Doug Hughes hoeing lettuce on Squaw Creek, circa 1928.
"Melba Yandell Hughes and her family came to Squaw Creek because of the lettuce. Melba had been married when her family lived in Oklahoma, and had lost her husband after their son, doug, was born. Eldest of eight children, Melba moved back home so her son could enjoy family life and the attention of all those brothers and sisters--actually, his uncles and aunts. The youngest of them, Maybelle,...
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Crates of lettuce grown on the Fenno Ranch at Squaw Creek. Label reads: "Snowy Range Mountain Lettuce, Burton Produce Co., Denver, Colo." Lettuce was transported by train to Denver and beyond.
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5) Stacking hay
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Two men stacking hay using a Mormon Derrick at Squaw Creek. A hay slide is at right foreground, between a man and a boy.
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Checking potato plants on the Fenno Ranch.
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Cora and Joe Carter, standing in front of an automobile in Leadville, Colorado. The license plate is for 1942.
"Sam and Russell's mother was Cora Fenno (daughter of Emma Fenno Graham), who married Joe Carter in Leadville in 1904. Soon after that, the two took up a homestead in the pretty draw that bears their name. They continued living in Leadville, 'proving up' on the land during the summer. Then in the 1920s, they built a two-story white clapboard...
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Potato plants and shed at the Fenno Ranch, Squaw Creek.
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Louis and Edith Fenno standing next to their home at Squaw Creek.
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Potato fields on the Fenno Ranch; automobile parked in foreground.
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Five generations of the Fenno family.
Back row: John and Clifford
Middle row: Edith, Florene, Mary
Seated: Barbara (Louis' wife) and her children
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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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Cecyl Bea and Dog Hughes sitting on the ground. Doug is holding a duck and ducklings are in the foreground. Fencing is visible in the background.
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The Sam and Betty Carter home at Carterville at Squaw Creek. The house was built in the 1950s.
"When Sam and Russell grew up, they fell in love with the Terry sisters, Betty and Wanda, who had lived at both Squaw and Lake Creeks. After their marriages, the four built cabins at Carterville and raised another generation of Carter children" -- June Simonton, The First Pioneers: a Squaw Creek History, p. 27
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A family on a hill at Squaw Creek.
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Studio portrait of Edith and Louis A. Fenno, most likely a wedding portrait.
Edith Nilson and Louis Alton Fenno were raised and married in Leadville, Colorado. In 1910, they moved to Squaw Creek and in 1912, Fenno filed on a homestead there. They had three children: Mary, Ida and Louis C. Fenno. Louis died on Feb. 17, 1961; Edith died on Mar. 6, 1973.
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Young cowboys, Forrest Voss and Jim Rollwagen, standing next to their horses on the Fenno Ranch, Squaw Creek.
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View of the potato fields on the Fenno Ranch with potato shed at midfield.
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Members of the Fenno family sharing a picnic at Squaw Creek. A camp fire is at leaft and four children are sitting with two women on the ground; two men stand in the background.
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Studio portrait of the Fenno children taken on Sept. 15, 1929, Mary and Clifford's wedding day. From left in back, Louis Charles Fenno and Clifford Thomas (Mary's husband) are standing; in front, Ida Fenno [Bearden] and Mary Fenno Thomas are seated.
Mary and Clifford operated the Edwards Store and Post Office, which they sold in 1946. Then they operated their ranch in Edwards until Clifford died in 1956. After that, Mary moved to Eagle and lived...
