The Mountain brothers, Wray and Silas Artie, came west in 1919 looking for farmland to homestead or purchase. In the spring of 1921, they moved their families from Cumberland, Cass County, Iowa to settle on the parcels they had purchased and begin life anew in a land much different than the wooded rolling hills of southwestern Iowa. Artie and Daphne would remain on the original purchased 320 acres northwest of Yuma, while Wray and Dora would move to land on the outskirts of the railroad town of Hyde in eastern Washington County, just a few miles west of Yuma. The brothers and their wives built their farms and raised their families, survived the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, remaining a loyal part of the agricultural lifestyle of northeastern Colorado for their entire lives. Artie and Daphne were the first Mountain generation to work the land. Their son Kenneth, and his wife Irma Atkinson, (whose family also moved to Yuma County from southwestern Iowa, in 1908), took over operations of the farm in 1949, becoming the second generation on the land. Their three sons (Bob, Steve, and Terry) became the third generation to farm the land, following the death of their father in 2003.