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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.
10. Doug Hughes
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Doug Hughes hoeing lettuce on Squaw Creek, circa 1928.
"Melba Yandell Hughes and her family came to Squaw Creek because of the lettuce. Melba had been married when her family lived in Oklahoma, and had lost her husband after their son, doug, was born. Eldest of eight children, Melba moved back home so her son could enjoy family life and the attention of all those brothers and sisters--actually, his uncles and aunts. The youngest of them, Maybelle,...
12. Ellis Bearden
15. Stacking hay
16. Bearden Family
19. Margurite Hawley
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A school photo of Margurite Hawley from Edwards, Colorado.
Jerome C. and Luella Smith Hawley were among the earlier settlers of Eagle County, ranching at the mouth of Squaw Creek around 1900. Upon retiring, they left the ranch to their son, Ezra J. Hawley. Margurite, Ezra's daughter, became a teacher for the Southern California Bible College in Pasadena, California.
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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...