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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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Livestock judging at the 1939 Eagle County Fair. The judges are walking behind the animals. The contestant at far right [facing left] is Tom Hartman.
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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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Alec Macdonell, born in Beauly, Scotland, with one of his Scottish longhorned cattle. "Highland cattle or kyloe are an ancient Scottish breed of beef cattle with long horns and long wavy coats which are coloured black, brindled, red, yellow or dun. The breed developed in the Scottish Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland. Breeding stock has been exported to the rest of the world, especially Australia and North America, since the early 20th Century....
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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 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.]
11) Bailey Ranch
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Bailey Ranch, Burns, Colorado, in early 1900. Stock pens visible in foreground with outbuildings and house in background.
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The Bailey Family log cabin with cows standing on the roof. Shovel is leaning up against the rock chimney.
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Shared marker for "Arbaney, Dad, Fierman August, June 2, 1918--Apr. 26, 1997; Mom Beulah Bogue, Sept. 1, 1919-- ; married Nov. 7, 1937," in Fairview Cemetery. A steer is engraved on the left corner of the stone; flowers and a hummingbird are engraved on the right corner. Two wedding bands are engraved in the center of the stone.
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Eagle County Historical Society volunteer Bill Heicher explains the stagecoach route that went from Red Cliff to Squaw Creek then over Bellyache mountain to Eagle.
A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
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Bill Heicher, Eagle County Historical Society volunteer, explains the historic stagecoach route over Bellyache to Rex Brown.
A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
17) Blacksmith shop
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Interior of the blacksmith shop. The building is actually the home that Jack Oleson was born in at Gypsum. He moved the building to the Diamond S Ranch in 2012.
A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
18) Bob Cowden
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Bob Cowden, whose parents homesteaded on Bellyache, assisted with the tour of the Diamond S historical sites. The original Cowden cabin was rebuilt by Jack Oleson in 2009.
A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
19) 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.
20) Borah ranch
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The Borah ranch on Brush Creek. The main home and barn/buildings are at center with a herd of cattle visible in the left corner. The site of the Borah ranch is now the Frost Creek Golf Course.
"The first half showing all the buildings built in 1902. 1896 to 1916." -- Alda Borah
