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21. Loading potatoes
22. Rundell ranch
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Stacking hay using a horse team and a Mormon derrick on the J over J Ranch (now the 4 Eagle Ranch) north of Wolcott, Colorado. The Ranch was originally homesteaded by John Welsh and later run by his son-in-law, Charles Hartman. Tractors were never used on the ranch before it left the family in 1930.
24. Charles Crawford
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Esther Edwards [Rogers] chewing on a head of lettuce while supported by her uncle, Ellis Miller. Crates of picked lettuce are in the background.
Esther was born in November 1925 on Bellyache Mountain. "Dr. Rucker failed to register my birth. It's not clear to me why that was. ... However, it did cause one problem when I tried to get a birth certificate in order to get a passport." -- Esther Rogers March 3, 2013
26. Hayers with team
27. Lettuce patch
28. Planting lettuce
30. Groh Ranch
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"Pioneers Mary and Frank Groh on their still unimproved ranch on Rock Creek, below McCoy [1/4 mile south] in [May] 1891. The man to the right of Mr. Groh is unidentified but the man doing the driving is Sam Elliott." -- McCoy Memoirs p.121
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
32. Newell Buffehr
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Newell Buffehr confronting a horse team pulling a hay wagon on the Buffehr ranch. Behind them, a man is standing on a haystack.
Newell was cited as one of six landowners in the Gore Creek Valley in 1959 by Dick Hauserman [Inventors of Vail p.7]: "John Hanson, Gust Kaihtipes, Pete Katsos, Henry Anholtz, Newell Buffehr, and Jay Pulis."
Newell and his wife Mary moved to Denver for Mary's health. She died in 1962.
34. Grain binder
35. Lester Watson
36. Cutting hay
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Guy Cates, Doc Rodgers and Ed Rodgers loading lettuce at Bachelor Gulch. Cates is standing next to the wagon loaded with lettuce crates; the other men are in the wagon. A two-horse team pulls the wagon. A tall pine stands at midground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]