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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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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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"A grain threshing outfit and crew on the Frank Groh ranch on lower Rock Creek in 1911. From left to right they are Phil Hines and Frank Parker, who were onlookers. Next are Charley McCoy and Tom Wohler, who owned the outfit. Then Phil Kapale, Ben Butler, unknown, Ed Bailey, Frank Groh, Jr., Harry Groh and Sam Kibbler. While in operation, it was the duty of the owners to see that all parts of the equipment were functioning properly. Other men...
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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. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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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Stacking hay on the Chester Mayer Ranch (Eagle, Colorado), not the Eagle Ranch subdivision on Brush Creek. The hay was lifted to the top of the stack by a "Mormon Derrick," a weight and pulley arrangement using a crane. The derrick is in the center of the photo with horse teams and rakes "pushing" hay to the loading area. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Mowing alfalfa using horse teams on the Mayer Ranch at the south end of the town of Eagle. (This ranch property is developed and is called the "Bull Pasture.") There are three teams, each pulling a cutter on which sits a team driver. The first team is driven by Ralph Robertson, Allan Hibbs is next driving the mules, and Frank Hulett is on the back team [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Leonard G. Ambos cutting hay, August 1925. Verso: "The 'Kid' himself" [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Harvesting a good crop of oats on the Arthur Horn ranch in 1916. Along with the assurance of an ample supply of irrigation water out of Rock Creek, this soil is very productive. In the background is Table Rock, a lava formation separating Rock and Egeria Creeks. The top of the rock is mostly sagebrush with some cedars and pinyons scattered through it. Until 1950 there was clear evidence of an Indian arrowhead makers' camp including a round area about...
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A potato sorter (pulled by horse) shakes potatoes of similar sizes into sacks during the potato harvest on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
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Workers digging and sacking potatoes in the field. Two horses with potato boxes are at the right with field workers sacking from the boxes. A horse team is at the left, possibly digging potatoes. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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1930-1940: Using a Mormon Derrick to lift hay onto a rick. Horse team in midground; farmer standing on hayrick. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Fall cutting of alfalfa on the Pearch place using a two-horse team. There is a couple standing to the left of the horses, the woman holding a child on her hip. [Thomas Pearch was born in 1917 so it could be he.] A boy is seated on the seat of the cutter with a woman standing next to him. Vern (Elmo Levern) Pearch was born in 1878 and came to Leadville in 1881. Several years later, he located a homestead on Squaw creek. "He was always interested...
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1900-1910: Team of three horses pulling a cutter harvesting oats on the Sherman Ranch near Eagle, Colorado. Driver's head and whip visible. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Frank Schoonover sitting on potato digger with Joe Dice (7 or 8 years old) standing, facing the camera. The digger is pulled by a 4-head team during potato harvest on the Shryack Place, lower Brush Creek. Farm buildings in right background.
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"Sheephorn ranch." Photo postcard showing a hay stacker in a field with teams of horses and the stacker rakes.
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Stacking hay using a horse team and a Mormon derrick on the J over J Ranch (now the 4 Eagle Ranch) north of Wolcott, Colorado. The Ranch was originally homesteaded by John Welsh and later run by his son-in-law, Charles Hartman. Tractors were never used on the ranch before it left the family in 1930.
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Full sacks of potatoes, lined up on wagon, ready for storage or shipping. A man rests on a sack for the photo, taken on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
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Horse teams turning furrows while harvesters fill sacks with potatoes on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
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Newell Buffehr confronting a horse team pulling a hay wagon on the Buffehr ranch. Behind them, a man is standing on a haystack. Newell was cited as one of six landowners in the Gore Creek Valley in 1959 by Dick Hauserman [Inventors of Vail p.7]: "John Hanson, Gust Kaihtipes, Pete Katsos, Henry Anholtz, Newell Buffehr, and Jay Pulis." Newell and his wife Mary moved to Denver for Mary's health. She died in 1962.