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Workers digging and sacking potatoes in the field. Two horses with potato boxes are at the right with field workers sacking from the boxes. A horse team is at the left, possibly digging potatoes.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Two work horses, Dick & King, are moving a hay derrick by a hired man. He is standing on the platform of the derrick holding the reins of the horses. There are trees in the background.
4) Stacking Hay
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"Stacker Horse" (caption from photo album)
A white horse stands hooked to the hay derrick ready for work. There are two men to the far left of the photo. One appears to be loading hay onto the derrick.
5) Stacking Hay
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"Stacking Hay" (caption from photo album)
A hay derrick is used to stack hay. There is a horse (?) in the foreground.
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Hans Larsen can be seen in the background with the horses, wagon, and equipment to dig potatoes. Gladys and Teddy are pictured in the foreground (names from photograph). Teddy appears to be sitting on a full sack of potatoes and there are others scattered throughout the photograph.
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Duane and Baby Bobby Trezise on a horse. There is farm equipment in the foreground and background; a large woodpile is also in the background.
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Dick & Queen, the Larsen horses, ready to pull a wagon. There are trees in the background and objects in the wagon.
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"Mother, Daisy, and Virginia Green" (Caption from photo album)
Hester Larsen holds Daisy the horse with Virginia Green is in the saddle. There is a fenceline behind them with a house and trees in the background. Virginia is holding onto rope and the saddle horn.
11) Coffin Mountain
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An overlook of Coffin Mountain and a farm on Brush Creek. Coffin Mountain is darker and on the right side of the photograph. Mountains are the backdrop to horses, a gravel road, and many fencelines. There is also a haystack and possibly other farm equipment visible in the background.
12) Hans & Chet
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Hans Larsen & Chet Head ride horses. Hans is holding rope in his right hand.
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Eben Massey talks about growing up on a ranch in Gateway, Colorado. He remembers riding horseback and playing with his cousins. He recalls encounters with rattlesnakes, bull snakes, pack rats, rabbits, and deer. He tells stories of deer hunts he was involved with. He remembers being a “flanker” who helped to brand cattle, working as a cowboy and ranch hand as a boy, riding horses, and calf roping. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County...
