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Rodeo at the Eagle County Fair in 1939. Cars ring the area in the background. The old courthouse is in the left background.
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Steer roping during the Eagle County Fair & Rodeo, 2013.
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Two teams of 3 oxen (first team has horse leader in center) pulling a plow. Teamster standing on plow with whip over his right shoulder. Inscription on back: "Sec30,43,12. Grand view farm Sedgewick (?) serving Albert's clan. This is a view of my outfit and hired man. This is the way we do it in this country. We plowed 90 acres in 32 days. I have my farm most all ready for crop next year. How do you like the looks of the place? Yours truly,...
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Moving pigs on the ranch. The photo may have been taken on the Gerard ranch in Eagle, Colorado.
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Bob & Mary Jo Trezise watching their father, Robert, till their garden with horses, Dick and King. There is a swingset in the left background and a sandbox in the right foreground.
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Melissa Larsen riding Daisy the Horse. Daisy has a tell-tale white spot on her forehead and they appear to be in a field with trees in the background.
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Two work horses, Dick & King, are moving a hay derrick by a hired man. He is standing on the platform of the derrick holding the reins of the horses. There are trees in the background.
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Bob (Robert) Trezise holds his son, Bobby, on top of the Dick the horse.
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Moving pigs on the ranch. The photo may have been taken on the Gerard ranch in Eagle, Colorado.
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First use of Eagle County road maintenance equipment using horse-drawn and mechanized graders.
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Dick & Queen, the Larsen horses, ready to pull a wagon. There are trees in the background and objects in the wagon.
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"Mother, Daisy, and Virginia Green" (Caption from photo album) Hester Larsen holds Daisy the horse with Virginia Green is in the saddle. There is a fenceline behind them with a house and trees in the background. Virginia is holding onto rope and the saddle horn.
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"Dick" the horse runs through a grassy field with trees and a fenceline in the background.
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Duane and Melissa Larsen stand alongside a horse with Bob Larsen sitting on top.
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Thrashing grain on Brush Creek. There is a hired man working on the wagon with a horse and grain elevator.