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1939: Burns Stockyard, November 1939, loading cattle into cattle cars. (Denver & Rio Grande Railroad) Two cowboys on ramps loading cattle; one man on track siding, left midground; woman holding child standing in empty corral behind horses. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Branding calves on the Bearden place. From left, from left Rolland, Ellis and Ray Bearden.
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Grandma George's (Charity Elizabeth Forster George) farm in Fr. Morgan with cattle headed toward the barn.
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Lou Clark (Layman) with County Fair projects: registered bull, Cran-Clay Roland, and registered heifer, Bar-Gay Anne. The Clark ranch house is in the background.
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"In the old days, all the neighbors helped each other." -- The Gates Genealogy
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"Branding meant a lot of hard work. They would bunch the cattle out in an open area. The men that were good ropers roped the calves and brought them to the branding fire. They worked without the help of chutes and corrals unless the cattle were close to the ranch buildings." -- The Gates Genealogy
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"The Martin Schomers ranch, as it looked in December of 1919. It was the twenty-fifth of April before this snow was all gone." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 263 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Ranch hands branding cattle in a fenced pasture on the Norman Ranch (between Burns and McCoy). [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Branding calves on the Bearden place. From left, from left Rolland, Ellis and Ray Bearden.
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Award for livestock presented to Dan Rule, 1939 Eagle County Fair. [Photo developed October 5, 1939 Ping's Station, Eagle, Colo.]
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Elizabeth George at her farm in Ft. Morgan, Colorado. She is standing with a cow and wearing a bonnet for sun protection, dogs in background.
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Martha Goodall, standing, is watching her daughter, Alice Goodall, bottle feed a fawn. They are standing in front of the first house built in Eagle, Colorado. There are other structures in the background. Two men are seated in a wagon at the far right. William F. Woods is on the left. Henry C. Goodall, at the far right, is holding snowshoes. Alice was married in this house in 1884 to William Franklin Wood. She was the mother of Robert Woods....
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Dan Rule's steer, Brush Creek [Photo developed Oct. 12, 1941, Ping's Station, Eagle, Colorado]
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Brush Creek Valley, 1916. Two groups of buildings, fenced pasture and Brush Creek visible with Bellyache Mountain in the background.
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Summer Range, Johnson Brothers Ranch, Edd Johnson Inscription on photo postcard: "Who is Edd? Your brother? What a beautiful scene. The cattle remind me of my Harveys. He had a small heard of these cattle. F. J. Morse"
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Livestock judging at the 1939 Eagle County Fair. The judges are walking behind the animals. The contestant at far right [facing left] is Tom Hartman.
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Dan (left) and Larry Rule, showing cattle. [Photo developed Jan. 23, 1941, Ping's Station, Eagle, Colorado]
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Lou Clark (Layman) and Bar-Gay Robin, a young registered bull. The Clark family raised milking shorthorn cattle on their ranch. Some of the cattle were 4-H projects.
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A closer look at the barn at H. K. Brooks' Castle Peak Ranch. The cattle are eating at feeders at mid-field. 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 Castle Peak ranch (Bar X) in Eagle. Before Brooks, the ranch was sold by John Carey in September...