Photo postcard looking down on H. K. Brooks' Bar X Ranch, Eagle, Colorado. The Eagle River is at the bottom of the photo.
Hollis "Holly" Kelloway Brooks came to Eagle County from Minnesota, settling first in McCoy and then operating a general store in Edwards. From 1926 to 1929, he was the County treasurer. In 1931 and through the 1940s, he owned and operated the Bar X Ranch (formerly the Castle Peak Ranch) in Eagle.
Before Brooks, the ranch...