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,...

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.]

Potato plants and shed at the Fenno Ranch, Squaw Creek. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]

Potato fields on the Fenno Ranch; automobile parked in foreground. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]

Fall cutting of alfalfa on the Pearch place using a two-horse team. There is a couple standing to the left of the horses, the woman holding a child on her hip. [Thomas Pearch was born in 1917 so it could be he.] A boy is seated on the seat of the cutter with a woman standing next to him. Vern (Elmo Levern) Pearch was born in 1878 and came to Leadville in 1881. Several years later, he located a homestead on Squaw creek. "He was always interested...

The upper Bearden place showing hayfields.

Branding calves on the Bearden place. From left, from left Rolland, Ellis and Ray Bearden.

Poultry at the Bearden place. There are five unidentified individuals and a dog in the photograph.

Roland Bearden with a two-horse team cutting hay near Edwards.