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.]

"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...