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2. 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,...
3. Stacking hay
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Lou Clark (Layman) and dog, Ring (wearing hat), in front of the Clark House, Edwards, Colorado. In the background is the hill across the Eagle River and Wilmor[e] Lake, where the "layers appear to be sideways." -- Lou Layman
"Highway signs added sometime in the 1980s or 1990s designate it as 'Wilmore' Lake, but in the 1940s the name came from a 'railroad house'--a small building near the railroad track that probably was used to store equipment that...
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Doug Hughes and Maybelle "Dickie" Yandell across the valley from Squaw Creek. Dickie is Doug's aunt, Melba's sister.
"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,...
12. Betty Ray
17. Bonnie Ray
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Jim Henderson (facing camera) and Nelse Nelson with his back to the camera.
"Early spring 1920, Squaw Creek, I was ten years old, many times I fed and milked these cows. No idea who took the picture, it could have been my mother. Nelse Nelson with back to camere [sic.], what a guy. Always good to me. He was the mine foreman at East Lake Creek, when my father worked there in 1905-6-7. Life a wee bit different those days, my mother sold our homestead...