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The Sherman Ranch house with a front porch and side addition. Barn is visible at far left.
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Disk harvester pulled by a team of horses is harvesting potatoes on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
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Sherman Ranch house with several additions on front.
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A house on the Sherman Brothers Ranch. Three women are sitting on the front porch.
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The Sherman Brothers Ranch house with Gertrude and children posed on front porch. Barns visible at left.
"Jesse Sherman and his wife, Gertrude, often entertained nieces and newphews and children from town. This cement-block home was the primary Sherman residence. Several other houses on the ranch were used for the families that helped to work the ranch." --Early Eagle, by Kathy Heicher p.47
The house was 4 miles east of Eagle, approximately where...
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Monica Barnes hold the reins to the family work horses with Boyd Barnes standing in front of her.
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Guy Barnes hauling hay with a team of horses and wagon.
"Guy Barnes was hired as a herdsman by a man named Andrew Christiansen. Mr. Christiansen raised Hereford cattle and needed someone to help with caring for the cattle. Mr. Barnes cared for the cattle on Mr. Christiansen's land in town during the Winter but during the late Spring, Summer and early Fall, Barne's job took him to Mr. Christiansen's cattle on pasture eleven miles North of town."...
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Eagle County Historical Society volunteer Bill Heicher explains the stagecoach route that went from Red Cliff to Squaw Creek then over Bellyache mountain to Eagle.
A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
