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Ranchers loading bags of wool at the depot in Eagle. Horse teams are dragging the skids.
Caption: "Loading part of $20,600 wool shipment from Eagle, Colorado."
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Grace and Emmett Nottingham standing on sledge drawn by horse team in front of the old house in Avon. Dog and cats are around the sledge. View is to the northwest overlooking the future Avon town site. Railroad track visible in background. Harry Nottingham place at Buck Creek is in right background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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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"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...
