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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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Cattle are corralled near several railroad cars at Ruedi.
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A view of Eagle, probably taken from Eby Creek. The D&RG depot is at far right. The Eagle school is the large building before the Mayer ranch area. The Brush Creek valley at top right shows ranch land with few houses. The Eagle River is at left.
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Burns Stockyards, October 1939, showing cattle in loading pens going up the ramp to rail cars on shipping day. Steam engine at left background. Four horses in foreground with dog. The yards were built in exchange for the right of way needed by the railroad to go through the Benton Land & Livestock Company property. It was a great help to local ranchers and, when the railroad no longer would ship cattle by rail, it caused hardship for the ranchers...
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1948: Charlie Albertson (75 yrs. old) on "Laddie" at Burns, Colorado stockyard, Fall of 1948. Mr. Albertson wears hat, leather jacket, and chaps; lariat prominent on saddle horn. Stock chute and cattle car (Rio Grande) in left background. Two automobiles in right background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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View looking southeast of the town of Eagle (right midground). Eagle River is in center foreground; Chambers Ranch is in left foreground. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"This picture shows rounding up the cattle to start the long trip to the railroad yards. Uncle Orris Albertson said that Grandpa "Bert" Gates could drive cattle anywhere. He must have been quite a cowboy." -- The Gates Genealogy
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"No doubt, quite a number of ranchers still living will remember that Grandaddy of all winters, 1919-1920 when stockmen were forced to start feeding hay a month earlier than usual and only a very few had enough feed to see their stock through the winter and a late, late Spring. Several cattlemen of the McCoy area were out of hay before the first of April, when there was still from twelve to thirty inches of snow on the ground. Rather than seeing their...