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81) Branding Time
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"Branding meant a lot of hard work. They would bunch the cattle out in an open area. The men that were good ropers roped the calves and brought them to the branding fire. They worked without the help of chutes and corrals unless the cattle were close to the ranch buildings." -- The Gates Genealogy
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"February, 1936. The Black Mountain Ranch when John Ambos and his mother were living there. It shows the 1925 burn on the northwest side of Black Mountain, caused by carelessness of sawmill operator Dick Webb whose mill was located at the foot of the mountain." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 244
An automobile at lower left is approaching the ranch; a horse harnessed to a sled is standing to the right of the automobile.
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"The Martin Schomers ranch, as it looked in December of 1919. It was the twenty-fifth of April before this snow was all gone." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 263
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
84) McCoy lane
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"The McCoy lane looking west. This 1912 photo [says 1911 on verso of photo] shows the front part of the Hotel on the left, [on the right] the blacksmith shop, the big red barn and the front of the old log barn and beyond it, the bridge across Rock Creek. The big barn, approximately fifty by sixty feet in size, was of frame construction and built by C. H. McCoy in 1902. It had stalls for twenty horses and a loft that held ten tons of loose hay....
85) Branding
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Branding calves on the Bearden place. From left, from left Rolland, Ellis and Ray Bearden.
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From left, Heine Bond, Mort Doll and Kevin Doll on horseback with corrals behind them.
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Full sacks of potatoes, lined up on wagon, ready for storage or shipping. A man rests on a sack for the photo, taken on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
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Charles, Chet, John and William (father) Eaton (left to right) at McCoy Creek Ranch. Each Eaton is holding the reins of a horse and is standing in front of a log barn.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
90) Groh Ranch
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"Pioneers Mary and Frank Groh on their still unimproved ranch on Rock Creek, below McCoy [1/4 mile south] in [May] 1891. The man to the right of Mr. Groh is unidentified but the man doing the driving is Sam Elliott." -- McCoy Memoirs p.121
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Alex and John Winslow on Sheephorn in 1914.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Austin Offerson and a "Dude" from Pennsylvania, mounted on horses. They are standing on a dirt road next to the fenced yard at the Offerson place. There appears to be a chicken in the lower right foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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John Kavanaugh and horse, taken on ranch prior to his marriage (early 1930s).
"He liked the horse as you can see. Taken on Ranch before he was married." pencil, on back
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Horse teams turning furrows while harvesters fill sacks with potatoes on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
95) Joe W. Edwards
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Caption: "Joe Edwards--his homestead on Bellyache near Foxe's sawmill before he and Emma married."
The horses appear to be carrying fuel containers.
96) Harry Groh
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Harry Groh on horseback at McCoy, Colorado. Harry married Jessie Brooks in 1914. "Harry and Jessie spent their honemoon and continued to live on the Kibbler Place on Grand River until 1915. Harry and his father than bought the Elliott Place on Rock Creek from the Ellis Cattle Company. Harry and Jessie operated the ranch until 1925 and then sold to Jack Grimes." -- McCoy Memoirs 126
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97) Hugh Norman
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"Hugh Norman at the Arthur Horn ranch [on Rock Creek] in 1916." -- McCoy Memoirs p.204
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"Hugh Norman and Mae Van Horn were married in 1919 and shortly after their marriage they moved to the Kibbler ranch which they ran for several years. They continued to rent and operate various ranches in the area. As a sideline Hugh contracted haying jobs in Egeria Park." -- p.204
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98) Newell Buffehr
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Newell Buffehr confronting a horse team pulling a hay wagon on the Buffehr ranch. Behind them, a man is standing on a haystack.
Newell was cited as one of six landowners in the Gore Creek Valley in 1959 by Dick Hauserman [Inventors of Vail p.7]: "John Hanson, Gust Kaihtipes, Pete Katsos, Henry Anholtz, Newell Buffehr, and Jay Pulis."
Newell and his wife Mary moved to Denver for Mary's health. She died in 1962.
99) Men and horse.
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Two men standing next to a horse. The man on the left has his arms crossed on his chest; the man on the right is holding the horse's bridle. All three are posed in front of a barn. Scrap lumber is visible and the barn door is open.
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Ellis Miller, half-brother to Emma Newby Edwards, seated on a horse with his nephew, Joseph Klyde Edwards riding in front. The family cabins are in the background.
