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Ellis Bearden with Elton's 4-H Club calf. Photo taken Sept. 30, 1941.
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Aerial view of Bellyache and the Bearden property. Ellis Bearden's place is at upper left. The Pearch place was just north of that property.
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Poultry at the Bearden place. Elizabeth and Roland Bearden are standing with the birds; upper cabin in the background.
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Barbara Clark, Eagle County teacher, with Daisy, the horse, at the Bar-Gay Ranch near Edwards, Colorado (at the mouth of Squaw Creek). Ring, the dog (previously owned by Tom Pearch), is standing next to Mrs. Clark. The Bar-Gay Ranch was originally the Hawley place. Gaylord and Barbara Clark bought the house and outbuildings; the land was a school section which they leased for 99 years.
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The Bearden Meadows sign at the Cordillera development on the Bearden Ranch.
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Crates of lettuce grown on the Fenno Ranch at Squaw Creek. Label reads: "Snowy Range Mountain Lettuce, Burton Produce Co., Denver, Colo." Lettuce was transported by train to Denver and beyond. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Two men stacking hay using a Mormon Derrick at Squaw Creek. A hay slide is at right foreground, between a man and a boy. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Ellis, in uniform, Elizabeth, Rolland and Ray Bearden in front of the truck at the Bearden place.
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Highway 6 & 24 in Eagle County. Wilmor[e] Lake would be off to the right. The Clark Ranch (Bar-Gay Ranch) is on the left at midfield. Bellyache Mountain is in the background.
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Checking potato plants on the Fenno Ranch. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Cora and Joe Carter, standing in front of an automobile in Leadville, Colorado. The license plate is for 1942. "Sam and Russell's mother was Cora Fenno (daughter of Emma Fenno Graham), who married Joe Carter in Leadville in 1904. Soon after that, the two took up a homestead in the pretty draw that bears their name. They continued living in Leadville, 'proving up' on the land during the summer. Then in the 1920s, they built a two-story white clapboard...
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Potato plants and shed at the Fenno Ranch, Squaw Creek. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Louis and Edith Fenno standing next to their home at Squaw Creek. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Purley Bertroch and Ellis Bearden (on right) standing in front of a pickup truck. Purley worked on the family farm in Gypsum until World War II, when he served in the First Cavalry, U.S. Army. After that, he worked as a carpenter, general contractor and developer throughout Eagle County.
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Potato fields on the Fenno Ranch; automobile parked in foreground. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Bert Yandell and his dog, Pal, across the valley from Squaw Creek. Bert is carrying books and a lunch pail in his left arm. Ranch buildings are in the background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Sam and Betty Carter home at Carterville at Squaw Creek. The house was built in the 1950s. "When Sam and Russell grew up, they fell in love with the Terry sisters, Betty and Wanda, who had lived at both Squaw and Lake Creeks. After their marriages, the four built cabins at Carterville and raised another generation of Carter children" -- June Simonton, The First Pioneers: a Squaw Creek History, p. 27 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by...
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Feeding horses on the Bearden place. The driver of the team is probably Roland J. Bearden.
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Ranch equipment at the Bearden place.
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Cordillera development on the Bearden Ranch.