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Two men with pitchforks, loading a hay wagon drawn by a horse team on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
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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....
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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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"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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Horse teams turning furrows while harvesters fill sacks with potatoes on the Sherman Brothers Ranch.
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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.
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"During the winter of 1916-1917, there was considerable snow in the McCoy area and for several weeks sleds were a popular mode of transportation. Here, Arthur, Pete, Mabel and Lulu Horn are leaving on the two and one half mile ride to McCoy for mail and supplies." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 115 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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July 25, 1914, first cutting of hay on the Sherman Brothers Ranch. Yield: 92 ton 800 # from 17 acres. Men are moving hay with pitchforks from wagons. Hay stack in background.
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A team of horses (Bill and Tom) pulling a sled of wood in the canyon above Black Mountain Ranch, 1928. Cabins visible in background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The garage, blacksmith shop, bunkhouse and chicken house at the Offerson place. A wagon is parked at midground, under a large tree. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Abandoned horse drawn farm equipment on the Ebert Ranch." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 260 The two-story Ebert ranch house is at far right background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Sometimes winter travel was very hard on both animals and humans." -- The Gates Genealogy
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Franklin, Lucy and daughter Gretchen in a carriage at the Doll Brothers' ranch in the Gypsum Valley. The "Big Barn" is at the right in the picture.
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Three men during the potato harvest on Bobson Ranch, Gypsum. Sigurd Bobson wearing glasses is in the middle. The horse is pulling a sorter/bagger on a sledge. Extra bags are held underneath the sorter tray. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Dick & Queen, the Larsen horses, ready to pull a wagon. There are trees in the background and objects in the wagon.
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The restored Wohlgehagen cabin, while titled the "stage stop" by Diamond S ranch residents, was very likely not the actual stage stop on Bellyache. Rather, this is Anna Wohlgehagen's homestead cabin that has been re-built and re-located. According to Jack Oleson, the real stage stop was likely located at the head of Squaw Creek and was not salvageable. A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch...
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Threshing on the Frank Groh Ranch on lower Rock Creek, below McCoy, Colorado. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Eagle County Historical Society volunteer Bill Heicher explains the stagecoach route that went from Red Cliff to Squaw Creek then over Bellyache mountain to Eagle. A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
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The McCoy and Wohler grain threshing outfit on the Frank Groh ranch, lower Rock Creek near McCoy, in 1911. Related to 1992.004A.026 Left to right: Charles McCoy, Phil Kapale, Frank Groh, Cliff Daniels, Harry Groh, Ben Butler, Tom Wohler, Sam Kibbler, Ed Baily [from verso of photo] [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]