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Dan Rule with steer.
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Moving cattle into the shipping pens at Wolcott, Colorado, to wait for the train. "Daddy Frank also told "Bud" that the first time he could remember going to Wolcott, he was about 5 years old. The cowboys ran their horses down the street shooting their guns. He was so frightened he hid behind his mother's skirt (Grandmother "Nona" Gates). Bet Grandmother was rather uneasy herself." -- 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...
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Cowboy brands a steer while the horse holds the tethered animal steady.
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Dan Rule with steer.
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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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"Cowboys work steers in a corral at the Lloyd ranch. The ranch brand was a 'Diamond J Bar.' The property is currently the site of the Diamond Star subdivision." -- Early Eagle, by Kathy Heicher, p.89
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Working cows on the old Frost Place, also the Schlutter Place (Pair o Dice Mesa). Faye Dice (named after Helen Faye Dice) sitting on cattle chute. Barns and corrals are now gone (2007).
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"Charley McCoy's Upper Place in 1930.The original log house was destroyed by fire in 1927 or 1928 and the frame house was built shortly afterwards. This picture shows some of Charley McCoy's top grade of cattle. Besides the cattle and the one saddle horse, at least seven men and boys are visible just to the left of the barn some of whom were probably members of the Dutch Laman family who were living on the ranch at that time." -- McCoy Memoirs p.108 [Title...
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Cowboys driving a herd of cattle over the Eagle River bridge at Eagle.
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Steer roping during the Eagle County Fair & Rodeo, 2013.
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Erin Mooney and his steer project, Eagle County Fair 1963.
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"Sheephorn Creek, 1915. Spring branding on the Clarence Rundell ranch. Left to right: CHarley Gutzler, Carl Forster, Frank McMillan, Bill Tester, Clarence Rundell, Dr. Sidell and Ward Ross." -- McCoy Memoirs p.317 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Dan Rule and steer [Photo developed Oct. 9, 1941, Ping's Station, Eagle, Colorado]
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Interior of the Howe cabin, restored by Jack Oleson. Jack created the "stove" from actual stove parts and a wooden box. A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
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Judging livestock at the Eagle County Fair, held in Eagle In September 1939.
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Photo postcard of the Horn Ranch on Rock Creek, Table Rock in the background. Taken by John Ambos in 1916, it shows cattle feeding on a snowy field with a log structure at left midfield. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Six steers on rope halters lined up with their handlers while being judged during the Eagle County Fair, 1939.
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Jim Henderson (facing camera) and Nelse Nelson with his back to the camera. "Early spring 1920, Squaw Creek, I was ten years old, many times I fed and milked these cows. No idea who took the picture, it could have been my mother. Nelse Nelson with back to camere [sic.], what a guy. Always good to me. He was the mine foreman at East Lake Creek, when my father worked there in 1905-6-7. Life a wee bit different those days, my mother sold our homestead...
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Photo postcard looking northeast of James E. Ullman's Castle Peak Ranch in Eagle. Ullman bought the ranch from John Carey in September 1919 for $28,000. It included ninety acres of farming land in the home place and included summer range on Castle. [EVE Sept. 19, 1919 p.1] The ranch was purchased by Holly Brooks in 1931.