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Kate and Dan Flynn, hoeing the garden at Kent. Inscription reads: "Long Ago."
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The Arthur Horn ranch about 2.5 miles north of McCoy on Rock Creek, in winter. Pete Horn purchased the ranch about 1890.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Ed Erickson, left, and Henry Ulin in a wagon drawn by a team of horses. They are standing outside a farmhouse in Gypsum Creek.
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Jim Flynn, Owen McCarthy and Kate Flynn hoeing the garden at Kent. Inscription reads: "Hard days work." The three pine trees are at right background.
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Fred Dice seated on John Deere tractor with buck rake on front. Haying season on the Schlutter Place, Brush Creek.
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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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A view of the lettuce sheds at Allenton taken from the south side of the Eagle River in 1932 near Edwards, Colorado. Railroad facilities in the background.
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Darrell Barnes and Guy Barnes in the lettuce patch at the Castle homestead. The cabin is visible in the background.
"Grass and sage brush were cleared from a large area not far from the cabin and the cleared land was planted to make a lettuce field. Barnes was able to sell the lettuce crop by hauling it to town in a wagon pulled by horses. The lettuce was loaded into a railroad car and shipped to market. It was packed in ice to keep it fresh and...
9) Lyon Ranch
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Photo postcard of the Judd Lyon Ranch in Yarmony Park, about 1940. Lyon homesteaded in 1909, his closest neighbor being John F. Hudson, two and a half miles to the northeast. McCoy was eight miles to the southwest and had the closest store and post office.
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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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Clarence Dubach's westernmost barn in Triangle Park, looking NW from the access road. Core from drilling was stored here. Photo taken September 1965.
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Jim Flynn leaning on a rake in a hayfield. Piles of hay behind him.
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Charley McCoy and Jake Johannbroer cutting hay on Conger Mesa, 1912.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Gay-Bar (Clark) Ranch as seen from Bellyache Mountain, October 1949. Highway 24, the Eagle River, and WIlmor[e] Lake are all visible at midground. Hay stack visible in closest field. [color degradation]
15) 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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Equipment and household goods auction on April 17, 1965. Charley and Josephine Ray sold the former Schrupp ranch to Raymond Horn, making him one of the largest land owners in the area. Photo on p. 226 of McCoy Memoirs.
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"Ray, Marty" [processing date Aug 65]
Ray Miller holding Marty miller on a tractor, raking hay, on what is now Singletree.
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Harry and Marie Nottingham standing next to the ice house at their ranch at Buck Creek. Between them on a stand is a basket full of exceptionally large potatoes.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Slide" hay stacker, used until the 1960's, on the Benton Ranch near Burns, Colorado, 1989.
20) Rundell ranch
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"Sheephorn ranch."
Photo postcard showing a hay stacker in a field. A person is standing on the haystack at center. This is probably the Rundell ranch at Sheephorn Creek. The Rundell ranch is mentioned in John Ambos' book,McCoy Memoirs, p.315-317.
