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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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Five men at a hunting camp on the Flattops. Some of the men are Fennos. A tent is in the bacground, blankets and gloves stacked in foreground. Automobile at far right. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Ellis Bearden with Elton's 4-H Club calf. Photo taken Sept. 30, 1941.
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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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Poultry at the Bearden place. Elizabeth and Roland Bearden are standing with the birds; upper cabin in the background.
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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. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Barbara Clark, Eagle County teacher, with Daisy, the horse, at the Bar-Gay Ranch near Edwards, Colorado (at the mouth of Squaw Creek). Ring, the dog (previously owned by Tom Pearch), is standing next to Mrs. Clark. The Bar-Gay Ranch was originally the Hawley place. Gaylord and Barbara Clark bought the house and outbuildings; the land was a school section which they leased for 99 years.
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The Bearden Meadows sign at the Cordillera development on the Bearden Ranch.
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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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Original Squaw Creek School building from the front. Building surrounded by a fence with heating oil tank in side yard. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Ellis Bearden next to his truck after elk hunting.
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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. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Peggy Whittaker and Eileen Randall outside a cabin at Brush Creek.
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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. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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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Highway 6 & 24 in Eagle County. Wilmor[e] Lake would be off to the right. The Clark Ranch (Bar-Gay Ranch) is on the left at midfield. Bellyache Mountain is in the background.
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Checking potato plants on the Fenno Ranch. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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A school photo of Margurite Hawley from Edwards, Colorado. Jerome C. and Luella Smith Hawley were among the earlier settlers of Eagle County, ranching at the mouth of Squaw Creek around 1900. Upon retiring, they left the ranch to their son, Ezra J. Hawley. Margurite, Ezra's daughter, became a teacher for the Southern California Bible College in Pasadena, California.
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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...