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Justin Winstead with his Grand Champion market sheep at the 1994 Junior Livestock sale, Eagle County Fair.
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The 2010 Eagle County Fair & Rodeo royalty. From left, Queen Attendant, Shelby Massie; Queen, Rena Gulick; Princess, Bethany Roof; Princess Attendant, Emily Massie.
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Two winners and their handlers from the stock judging at the Eagle County Fair in 1939. The cattle are facing to the right in the photo. Watching behind them are other contestants, ranchers, and judges. The Fair was held west of the Eagle County Courthouse.
4) Steer roping
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Scott Jones and Greg Baldwin steer roping during the Eagle County Fair & Rodeo, 2013.
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View of the Chambers Ranch with houses, outbuildings and barn. The barn was moved to its present site at the Eagle Visitor Center in 1986 and donated to the Eagle County Historical Society. The Eagle River is in the background.
[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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The 2009 Eagle County Fair & Rodeo royalty. In green, Queen, Kelly Adams; blue, Queen Attendant, Angela Downs; pink, Princess Sarah Bakken; yellow, Attendant, Bethany Roof.
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The Little Britches Grand Entry at Eagle Fairgrounds, 1987. Queen Laura Miller leads with Jr. Princess Staci Burton behind her.
11) Hefting potatoes
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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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Eagle County Fair and Rodeo royalty1989-90, ready for the Garfield County Fair parade 1989.
Left to right, Queen, Jo Jo Walker; Lady in Waiting, Tammy Quealy; Princess, Jenny Walch.
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Edie Lederhause, 1980-1981 Rodeo Queen, and Betty Jo Jansen, riding in the Eagle Flight Days parade, 1980, with Edie's horse project (4-H).
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The 2013 Eagle County Fair & Rodeo royalty. From left, Princess Attendant, Adie Lengel; Princess, Malorie Stephens; Queen Attendant, Morgan Kromer; Queen, Katie Stephens.
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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...
17) Melonie Gordon
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Melonie Gordon, 1979-1980 Rodeo Queen, on stage during the Eagle County Fair.
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Edie Lederhause, 1980-1981 Rodeo Queen, at left, after being crowned. Karen Greenman, at right, is receiving her sash as Attendant during the Eagle County Fair.
19) Brandie Burke
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Brandie Burke, 1984-85 Rodeo Junior Princess. Brandie is nine years old in this photo, holding balloons, bouquet and belt buckle.
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Jr. Princess Jo Jo Walker and Queen Lacey Satterfield at the Pretty Baby Contest, Eagle County Fair 1988.
