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Six people sitting on port of "Thirteen" house, Burns, Colorado. From left to right: Frank Benton, Marie Durbin Bainum (cousin to Grace), Grace Benton (Mrs. Frank), T. Harry Benton (son), unidentified man, Charles Mann. (The latter two men are from the Mann Livestock Commission Co.)
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Albert Smith, wearing boots and hat, standing in a snowy field behind a Hereford. His hands are on the cow's back .
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View of the Chambers Ranch with houses, outbuildings and barn. The barn was moved to its present site at the Eagle Visitor Center in 1986 and donated to the Eagle County Historical Society. The Eagle River is in the background.
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Everett Howard holding the reins of Tom, the horse. Both are standing in a field. Some timber is visible behind Tom. Everett is wearing overalls and Tom wears a bridle.
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Ellis Bearden standing with woman and ox cart somewhere in rural France/Belgium .
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July 25, 1914, first cutting of hay on the Sherman Brothers Ranch. The crew is posed on the tongue of the slide stacker. Hay is poised on the stacker in the background, with hayers and pitchforks ready to move it onto the haystack.
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The 2009 Eagle County Fair & Rodeo royalty. In green, Queen, Kelly Adams; blue, Queen Attendant, Angela Downs; pink, Princess Sarah Bakken; yellow, Attendant, Bethany Roof.
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The Little Britches Grand Entry at Eagle Fairgrounds, 1987. Queen Laura Miller leads with Jr. Princess Staci Burton behind her.
11) Hefting potatoes
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A man standing on a wagon hefts a full potato sack over his head. A man standing in front of the wagon has a full potato sack over his shoulder. The horse team is waiting patiently during potato harvest on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
"Farm workers in a celebratory mood hoist 100-pound sacks of spuds into a wagon at the Sherman ranch east of Eagle. The next step in the process was for farmers to haul their potatoes to the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad...
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Eagle County Fair and Rodeo royalty1989-90, ready for the Garfield County Fair parade 1989.
Left to right, Queen, Jo Jo Walker; Lady in Waiting, Tammy Quealy; Princess, Jenny Walch.
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C.1900: "The Big Barn," Doll Brothers Ranch, Gypsum Valley. Barn had 3 full stories, running water and electricity. Could stable 250 horses individually. Winter view with snow on ground. Fencing in foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Edie Lederhause, 1980-1981 Rodeo Queen, and Betty Jo Jansen, riding in the Eagle Flight Days parade, 1980, with Edie's horse project (4-H).
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Horse and rider with dog at left, standing in front of a tent. Possibly someone standing in tent opening but photo is blurred. Sheep pen and sheep in background. Photo labeled: "Sheep Camp, Dry Lake," in lower left corner.
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The 2013 Eagle County Fair & Rodeo royalty. From left, Princess Attendant, Adie Lengel; Princess, Malorie Stephens; Queen Attendant, Morgan Kromer; Queen, Katie Stephens.
18) Loading Hay
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Gulling Offerson loading hay into barn on bench above Beaver Creek. A two horse team, left foreground, is being used while a team of mules is visible in the left background. The mules are pulling the cables that are lifting the load of hay to the top of the stack. The view is looking east with the Avon "gypsum cliffs" to the left.
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"Threshing grain on the Bill Winslow Ranch, Sheephorn 1914. Clarence Rundell, Ammi Hoyt, --?--, Everett Hoyt, Chas. Gutzler." -- verso caption
"The machine at left is the thresher, appearing to be an early model that is hand fed as best I can determine. I think men on the stack are feeding the stacked grain into the machine, with straw discharge out of sight to left of photo. In any case, the horses in foreground are hooked to a 'horse power'. This...
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Photo postcard looking down on H. K. Brooks' Bar X Ranch, Eagle, Colorado. The Eagle River is at the bottom of the photo.
Hollis "Holly" Kelloway Brooks came to Eagle County from Minnesota, settling first in McCoy and then operating a general store in Edwards. From 1926 to 1929, he was the County treasurer. In 1931 and through the 1940s, he owned and operated the Bar X Ranch (formerly the Castle Peak Ranch) in Eagle.
Before Brooks, the ranch...
