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"An early day log dwelling a little similar to the Wohler house, but built by Tom Elliott on his Mother's homestead. Besides the Elliott family who lived here over twenty years, succeeding occupants were the Grays, Grohs, Grimes, Kaysers and Holts. The dirt roof building on the extreme left was the original building and the rest were additions. The logs in this building and many other in the vicinity are as sound today as in the day they were cut...
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"Carl and Josie Ruehle of Casper, Wyoming, pay a brief visit to the Conger Mesa. They operated and lived on the Kayser place from time to time before 1920. Mrs. Ruehle was formerly Josephine Kayser." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.230 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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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Josie Ruehle, at left, and Minnie Ambos at the Black Mountain Ranch in 1925. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Rifle, Colo. 1924. Frank Bratton, Albert Kayser, and Jim Jones." -- McCoy Memoirs p.309 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The King and Queen of Pioneer Day at McCoy, June 16, 1974, Josephine Kayser Ruehle and Arthur Kayser. Josephine married Carl Ruehle in 1910 and moved to Casper, Wyoming, several years later. Arthur, the youngest of Joe Kayser's sons, was on the Kayser Ranch for only a few years before moving to Oak Creek, where he was employed by the town. Photo used on p. 337 of McCoy Memoirs. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical...
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"The Horn ranch house on Rock Creek, two and one half miles above McCoy, as it was in 1917. Homesteaders Alvin Hart and Rooks built the cabin with the fireplace, the rest was added on by the Horns. The two bedrooms upstairs and the ground floor was the living room, the fireplace room served as a bunkhouse for ranch hands. Shortly after Arthur Horn's death, Mrs. Horn had that part of the building removed. The Pete Horn family lived here from 1890 to...
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School picture of the 3rd and 4th grades, Golden, Colorado, 1903-1904. Agatha Ebert, Florence and Josephine Kayser, Carl Schrupp and John Ambos are in this photo, previous to relocating in the McCoy area. Back row: Viola Nixon, Agatha Ebert, Ida Youngwall, Amy Harris, Mary Eldridge, -----, Laura Morton, Amanda Rue, Stella Reed, Ida Bently, Lena Grass, Florence Kayser, Josephine Kayser, Mabel Mathews, Flossie Couch, Lily Youngwall Middle row: Percy...
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Douglas Martin and Glende Vernice standing next to the remains of a building on the Hank Fox place, Red Dirt Creek. Vesintiner's Dam broke on June 3, 1952, flooding the area down through McCoy. -- Verso Eagle Valley Enterprise June 5, 1952 p.1: "Dam Break Destoys Cabins at McCoy. Homes, ranch property and livestock were destroyed early Tuesday morning when the King Mt. Reservoir dam near McCoy gave way, spilling 600 acre feet of water into Red,...