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Jim Flynn, Owen McCarthy and Kate Flynn hoeing the garden at Kent. Inscription reads: "Hard days work." The three pine trees are at right background.
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Tera Miller with sled and horse team at his place on Bellyache Mountain. Winter weather. Lettuce crates are stacked and covered behind him.
3) 4-H picnic
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Participants in a 4-H picnic over Cemetery Hill in Red Cliff, Colorado, 1965.
Back row, from left: Wilma Medina, ----, ----, ----, ----, Christine Beck (Banicki) Mary Lou Albert, Patricia Beck (Rowe)
Blonde standing in middle : Sheila Warren
Sandra Albert (Rose) squatting
Johanna Beck, standing in front of Patricia Beck (Rowe)
When Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act in 1914 and created the Cooperative Extension System at USDA, it included work...
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Alan Nottingham and his older sister, Winifred Nottingham Mason, standing at the entrance to the College Farm house. Across from Arrowhead in what is now Eagle-Vail, the College Farm was an agriculture experiment station for Colorado A & M College.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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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A view of the lettuce sheds at Allenton taken from the south side of the Eagle River in 1932 near Edwards, Colorado. Railroad facilities in the background.
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The John J. Ambos homestead and cabin.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The John Ambos Ranch on Congor Mesa in the foreground with the Martin Schomers Ranch in the background.
Martin Schomers was among the last to homestead on the Congor Mesa. "Schomers died of tick fever in May of 1940 after being ill only a short time. The children fell heir to his property but since two were still minors, the estate was not settled until 1944. During the intervening time Darrell Ray, who was married to Helen Schomers in 1939, operated...
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The Arthur Horn ranch about 2.5 miles north of McCoy on Rock Creek, in winter. Pete Horn purchased the ranch about 1890.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Pastures at Beaver Creek, July 24, 1928.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Just across Rock Creek Canyon from the Ebert place on Conger Mesa, Bert Hadley took up a 160 acre homestead and built this house on it in 1905. Prior to that year, he had married Huldah LaForce and they had spent a part of their honeymoon on the former Milby Frazer place at the head of Egeria Canyon. Bert, who was in poor health, did not live long enough to realize his dream of transforming the homestead into a cattle ranch. After his death, about...
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Glen Staton takes a seat in the alfalfa field on Brush Creek. He's wearing gloves and has his hands perched on a tool.
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Betty Jo and Glen Schmidt, posed in front of a Caterpillar tractor. It was their last year on the ranch.
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Looking east toward Red Point at far right on the horizon, the fields show the great agricultural potential of the Eagle River Valley.
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"The Bill Johannbroer Ranch on Conger Mesa in 1970." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 235
"Billy Johannbroer was a locomotive engineer on the Clear Creek Branch of the Colorado and Southern Railroad. He did very little active work on his homestead. His wife and children, Bill, Lillian and Kenneth, were the chief ranchers with Billy only being able to help during his vacations and during slack railroad seasons.
Bill Jr. married Verna Ray, daughter of Daniel...
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The Black Mountain Ranch at this time had about 50 acres under cultivation, the balance of the 1,100 acres was pasture and timberland....John Ambos and his mother put in twenty years of hard work here, before selling the place to Willard Atwood in the spring of 1941. -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 245
"The main part of the ranch house on the Black Mountain Ranch was built by Tony Johannbroer in 1910, and the addition by John Ambos in 1928. Tony and his wife...
17) Boies' chickens
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Ethel Boies Bayer's father, Brett Timothy Boies, ran an experimental farm in British Columbia. These are chickens from the farm, on a photo postcard.
18) Branding
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Branding calves on the Bearden place. From left, from left Rolland, Ellis and Ray Bearden.
19) Branding
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Branding calves on the Bearden place. From left, from left Rolland, Ellis and Ray Bearden.
