Cordillera, Colorado
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The Bearden Meadows sign at the Cordillera development on the Bearden Ranch.
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Crates of lettuce grown on the Fenno Ranch at Squaw Creek. Label reads: "Snowy Range Mountain Lettuce, Burton Produce Co., Denver, Colo." Lettuce was transported by train to Denver and beyond.
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Two men stacking hay using a Mormon Derrick at Squaw Creek. A hay slide is at right foreground, between a man and a boy.
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Checking potato plants on the Fenno Ranch.
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Cora and Joe Carter, standing in front of an automobile in Leadville, Colorado. The license plate is for 1942.
"Sam and Russell's mother was Cora Fenno (daughter of Emma Fenno Graham), who married Joe Carter in Leadville in 1904. Soon after that, the two took up a homestead in the pretty draw that bears their name. They continued living in Leadville, 'proving up' on the land during the summer. Then in the 1920s, they built a two-story white clapboard...
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Potato plants and shed at the Fenno Ranch, Squaw Creek.
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Louis and Edith Fenno standing next to their home at Squaw Creek.
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Potato fields on the Fenno Ranch; automobile parked in foreground.
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The Sam and Betty Carter home at Carterville at Squaw Creek. The house was built in the 1950s.
"When Sam and Russell grew up, they fell in love with the Terry sisters, Betty and Wanda, who had lived at both Squaw and Lake Creeks. After their marriages, the four built cabins at Carterville and raised another generation of Carter children" -- June Simonton, The First Pioneers: a Squaw Creek History, p. 27
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Studio portrait of Edith and Louis A. Fenno, most likely a wedding portrait.
Edith Nilson and Louis Alton Fenno were raised and married in Leadville, Colorado. In 1910, they moved to Squaw Creek and in 1912, Fenno filed on a homestead there. They had three children: Mary, Ida and Louis C. Fenno. Louis died on Feb. 17, 1961; Edith died on Mar. 6, 1973.
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Young cowboys, Forrest Voss and Jim Rollwagen, standing next to their horses on the Fenno Ranch, Squaw Creek.
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View of the potato fields on the Fenno Ranch with potato shed at midfield.
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Mounds of hay at the Fenno Ranch, Squaw Creek.
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At the corner of Bearden Road and Elk Creek Trail at Cordillera.
