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The Castle Peak Dairy delivery wagon making the rounds. There is a shaft bell on the wagon shaft, probably to let customers know the wagon was close. This particular wagon now resides in the Eagle County Historical Society Museum.
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Ed Erickson, left, and Henry Ulin in a wagon drawn by a team of horses. They are standing outside a farmhouse in Gypsum Creek. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Horse drawn wagon with two passengers on road east of the entrance to Beaver Creek at Avon (Stone's Ranch). Stone's Ranch later became the Agriculture Experiment Station for the State College...State Farm. The road became U.S. Highway 6. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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July 25, 1914, first cutting of hay on the Sherman Brothers Ranch. The crew is posed on the tongue of the slide stacker. Hay is poised on the stacker in the background, with hayers and pitchforks ready to move it onto the haystack.
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Wagon and two teams of horses.
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A man standing on a wagon hefts a full potato sack over his head. A man standing in front of the wagon has a full potato sack over his shoulder. The horse team is waiting patiently during potato harvest on the Sherman Brothers Ranch. "Farm workers in a celebratory mood hoist 100-pound sacks of spuds into a wagon at the Sherman ranch east of Eagle. The next step in the process was for farmers to haul their potatoes to the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad...
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View of a horse-drawn float with flags attached. People walking along Water Street on the sidewalk above the river, next to houses. House in midground is the Beck House, built in 1914. Train in background. [not in focus]
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Ray Miller (brown shirt) with horses that will pull the Continental Oil Company wagon during a 4th of July parade.
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"Ammi Hoyt on his way to a railroad siding with a load of potatoes for shipment to market. Until 1925 most potatoes were still being hauled by horse drawn wagons, but shortly afterwards hauling was done by trucks." -- McCoy Memoirs p.199 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"A train of freight wagons like these were a common sight on the road between Wolcott and Routt County points, before the advent of the Moffatt Road. By traveling together freighters could lend assistance to one another in case of an equipment breakdown, encountering a mudhole or a steep grade, of which there were many. This photo was taken about a mile north west of McCoy, by A. B. Noyce of Steamboat Springs in the spring of 1903. The three freighters...
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The Kilgore property on Brush Creek is in the foreground; in the backgound are horses hauling a load to market.
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McCoy Lane, McCoy, Colorado, looking East. A mix of automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles are on the streets. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Everett Howard on horseback with another horse to Everett's left. There is a wagon behind the horses. They are standing in front of John Howard's house where Everett's mother is standing on the porch. There is a ladder leading to a sleeping loft visible to the left. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Butch Wellington driving old farm team. Only picture of D&RG Section House at Edwards." -- Esther Klatt
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Feeding cattle on the Horn Ranch at Rock Creek, during the heavy snows of winter 1916. From left: Arthur, Lulu, Mabel, Harold and Leonard Horn. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Feeding horses on the Bearden place. The driver of the team is probably Roland J. Bearden.
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Lester Watson and "Bud" in a wagon at Kent.
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First Gilman fire in 1885. People are trying to save their possessions and are lined up on the road below Gilman. "Smitherums hand," written on verso.
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Horse drawn wagon on Grand Avenue in the Strawberry Days parade, 1917.
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A mud wagon prepared to start the run from Wolcott to Steamboat Springs. A more robust vehicle than a coach for use in difficult conditions such as mud, although conditions in this photo are good. Comfort was often a casualty, but wasn't much to start with. More mules would almost surely be added for power to deal with adverse conditions and a larger load. [Courtesy of Stuart Dykstra] "Before the road was built over Rabbit Ears Pass, the stage...