Emma Mae Newby, Esther Edwards Rogers' mother, on horseback, Bellyache Mountain. Emma Newby was Joseph T. (Tera aka Terry) Miller's stepdaughter. Her father died when she was 5. Caption: "She was sure going high and crooked." "I am not sure of the dates my family came to Eagle, but checking online homestead and census records, I found the Edwards family in the 1910 census in Colorado Springs and in 1919 to 1922 in Eagle County homestead records. I...

Emma Mae Newby in riding clothes, standing in front of an outbuilding on Bellyache. "The Millers were 'city folks.' My grandfather [Joseph T. Miller] was the postmaster in the town of Sublette, Kansas. He had a college education and had been a Lutheran minister. (I can't imagine why he would leave all that and take his family to live in a log cabin on a remote Colorado mountain to plant lettuce and potatoes! I never learned what his motivation was.)...