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Looking south toward the Town of Eagle c1917, according to notes on the photo. If the large building in the far right background is the County Courthouse, this photo could not be dated earlier than 1932. The railroad bridge can be seen in the left background. U.S. Hwy 6 is running across the center of the photo
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Marvin standing with his brother Willie outside the place at lower McCoy. Parents Emil (Dutch) and Pearl Laman had 10 children: Beula, Annie, Alice, Bill, Robert, Red, Hlda, Louis, Louise, and Marvin.
Bill "Willie" was born in 1909. "He was a well-known all around ranch hand, he lived in Routt County all of his life. ... He and Lorraine Rose were married in 1938. They had three children."
"Marvin, the youngest of the Laman family was born in...
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"Burns, Colo. 1945. Ted Harris, Calvin and Calla James and Nina Harris." -- McCoy Memoirs p.174
"After Mr. and Mrs. James had sold their homestead they moved to Burns where Calvin worked in the timber and also for a short time on the railroad. The couple retired in 1942 and build a home in Eagle. Calvin died there but his wife, Calla still resides in their home." -- McCoy Memoirs p.175
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical...
44) Kathy Schmidt
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Kathy Schmidt on Pommers, her horse.
"Our daughter, Kathy, was in 4-H and wanted a horse. We found one not yet 'broke' and bought him. Kathy had taken a course in horse training from the University of Wyoming by correspondence. So we trained 'Pommers.' We found the name of a war horse in an unusual book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle--writer of Sherlock Holmes mysteries. We spent a lot of time with Pommers to get him used to the railroad, the highway...
45) Hefting potatoes
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A man standing on a wagon hefts a full potato sack over his head. A man standing in front of the wagon has a full potato sack over his shoulder. The horse team is waiting patiently during potato harvest on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
"Farm workers in a celebratory mood hoist 100-pound sacks of spuds into a wagon at the Sherman ranch east of Eagle. The next step in the process was for farmers to haul their potatoes to the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad...
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View of Black Mountain taken from Volcano Ridge, Routt County.
"A distant view of the Black Mountain and ranch as it was in 1920. It also shows about a mile of the railroad track between Crater and Rock Creek." --McCoy Memoirs p.244
[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
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48) Round up
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"This picture shows rounding up the cattle to start the long trip to the railroad yards. Uncle Orris Albertson said that Grandpa "Bert" Gates could drive cattle anywhere. He must have been quite a cowboy." -- The Gates Genealogy
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A group photo taken on March 24, 1930, Easter Sunday, at the Thompson Ranch on Conger Mesa.
"From left to right in back: Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bowles and their two children, Mary and Joe Nichols, Helen and Art Hudson, Bill and Verna Johannbroer, Verna Rose Johannbroer, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hamilton, Francis, Eleanor and Blanche Thompson, Harry Abbett, Bill and Florine Connor, Edith Thomas, Charley Thompson, Martin Schomers
In front: Minnie Ambos, ? ...
50) Ambos Homestead
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"No doubt, quite a number of ranchers still living will remember that Grandaddy of all winters, 1919-1920 when stockmen were forced to start feeding hay a month earlier than usual and only a very few had enough feed to see their stock through the winter and a late, late Spring. Several cattlemen of the McCoy area were out of hay before the first of April, when there was still from twelve to thirty inches of snow on the ground. Rather than seeing their...
