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The Chester Mayer ranch, Eagle, Colorado, from a photographic Christmas card, sent to the Kite family between 1945 and 1952. The Mayer ranch is now the Eagle Ranch subdivision. It was the John Ewing ranch prior to the Mayers.
On verso of card: "Dear Kites, Sure would like to have a visit from the Kite family again. Lloyd hasn't forgotten what a nice time he had while you folks were here. Thought of you when we branded this year. Built new corrals...
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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...