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The Tom Elliott place on Rock Creek. The ranch house is on the right with corrals and barn at left. The ranch is in Routt County, two miles north of McCoy. Irrigation was from the creek in order to grow supplementary feed for winter.s [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Jack Gray and Jess Adams, driving cattle through McCoy on McCoy Lane. Log building in the background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The horse barn on the Charles B. McCoy ranch, photographed in 1970 by John Ambos. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Schlegel homestead on the Piney. Barn and corral built by Matt Schlegel (Mathias).
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Laman place on the Colorado River Road (near McCoy), built in 1947.
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The front of the Arthur Panting ranch house at McCoy with children sitting on the front step. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"This house near Bond was the home of John and Mary Payne and family for eight years and during six of those years it was a meal stop for hungry travelers on the main road between State Bridge and McCoy where meals were to be had for twenty-five cents." -- McCoy Memoirs p.140 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Buchholz homestead on Buchholz Mesa. Nicholas is at the far left; Mary is wearing a hat and standing near the door. John, Mary Louise and Beulah Buchholz are also in the picture. There are mounted riders at far right and cattle at midground. Buchholz Mesa was sold to E. M. Tabor and Nick and John opened a livery business in Eagle. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Shortly after they were married, Jack and Martha Sigler came out from Denver and homesteaded land in the Volcano area. Their first abode was a cellar or dug-out at an abandoned railroad construction camp, but later they buit this house north of Volcano, one section at a time. Like many other homesteaders, their lives were much too short to see their dreams fulfilled." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 304 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County...
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The first dwelling on the Kayser desert claim was a tent and it was 1909 or 1910 before this house was built by a Mr. Freeman for Joe Kayser. A number of transients lived in it before members of the Kayser family. Of those, Ralph occupied it the longest. It is presently the home of the Raymond Horn family." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.229 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Strubi family dwelling in Burns built in 1953. Wire fence in foreground.
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Built to stand up under the rigorous winters of the high country, this is a 1970 photo of the big house that Dick Klumker built in 1934, but has been unoccupied since 1937." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 312 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"The ranch buildings on what later became the Black Mountain Ranch. When this picture was taken in 1935 [photo has both 1934 and 1936 written on it], it was a working ranch (with emphasis on work) and had about fifty acres under cultivation, the balance of the 1,100 acres was pasture and timberland. Pioneers named the hill in the background Sawmill Mountain. Until 1915 the hill was a paradise for grouse and to see fifty or sixty in a flock was...
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Bill Gates dwelling built in 1909 on Derby Mesa.
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The William Johnson Ranch, formerly the Anthony Sneve Ranch on West Brush Creek. The patent on the ranch was established in 1911. The ranch was purchased by Edna Chambers in 1935. Chambers in turn sold the property to William S. and Nora Johnson in 1938. It is now the site for Sylvan Lake State Park. [A History of Sylvan Lake State Park, by Kathy Heicher]
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Three people standing in front of a log building, probably on Brush Creek. The man on the right is Morton White. The man on the left may be Ben White. The women in the appliqued apron is unidentified. The White family were major landholders in the Brush Creek area. The photo was developed by Ping on September 21, 1940.
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Lederhause dwelling on the Colorado River Road, built in 1905.
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J.T. (Terry) and Mamie Miller's cabin on Bellyache Mountain in Eagle County, Colorado. There are two automobiles in front of the cabin and people looking at the photographer.
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"Six miles due north of the Conger Mesa and five miles northeast of Volcano lies Long Park in the Routt National Forest. Here the Klumker family and a man named Blake took up 160 acre homesteads in 1912. This view of the Park in 1968 shows the Klumker House and near the road in the distance is the Blake cabin. The buildings to the right of the house have collapsed under the deep snows of the region." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 311 [Title supplied from...
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"Just across Rock Creek Canyon from the Ebert place on Conger Mesa, Bert Hadley took up a 160 acre homestead and built this house on it in 1905. Prior to that year, he had married Huldah LaForce and they had spent a part of their honeymoon on the former Milby Frazer place at the head of Egeria Canyon. Bert, who was in poor health, did not live long enough to realize his dream of transforming the homestead into a cattle ranch. After his death, about...