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Marker for: "Charlie Forster, Sept. 29, 1910--Oct. 27, 1976," in the McCoy Cemetery. A meadow scene with horse and rider, steer, river, trees and mountain is engraved on the marker.
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Monica, Darrell and Boyd Barnes, seated in the doorway of the larger cabin at Four Mile (four miles up Eby Creek). Animals in the yard include a calf, dog, and pig.
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Dan Rule with steer.
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Ellis Bearden posed by horse with cattle in the background.
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Moving cows home from summer pastures from the Olsen Ranch on Piney.
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Breeding cows taken in summer pasture, Ed and Charles Johnson, Colorado (cousins) (this photo is number 7771 Dave Risk Photos, 220 W. 12th St. Kansas city, MO)
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Moving cattle into the shipping pens at Wolcott, Colorado, to wait for the train. "Daddy Frank also told "Bud" that the first time he could remember going to Wolcott, he was about 5 years old. The cowboys ran their horses down the street shooting their guns. He was so frightened he hid behind his mother's skirt (Grandmother "Nona" Gates). Bet Grandmother was rather uneasy herself." -- The Gates Genealogy
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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...
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Cowboy brands a steer while the horse holds the tethered animal steady.
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Dan Rule with steer.
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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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Lee Johnson and Ed, his brother. The Johnson Brothers began buying registered Herefords in 1906 and handled range cattle, as well. They increased their land holdings, including the Sherman Brothers ranch east of Eagle in 1919, to become the largest owners of irrigated farm land in the county. Ed Johnson ran the ranch and Lee Johnson had the transport company out of Longmont. They dispersed the herd in 1922-23. Ed Johnson went to Raton, New Mexico,...
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"Cowboys work steers in a corral at the Lloyd ranch. The ranch brand was a 'Diamond J Bar.' The property is currently the site of the Diamond Star subdivision." -- Early Eagle, by Kathy Heicher, p.89
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Working cows on the old Frost Place, also the Schlutter Place (Pair o Dice Mesa). Faye Dice (named after Helen Faye Dice) sitting on cattle chute. Barns and corrals are now gone (2007).
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"Charley McCoy's Upper Place in 1930.The original log house was destroyed by fire in 1927 or 1928 and the frame house was built shortly afterwards. This picture shows some of Charley McCoy's top grade of cattle. Besides the cattle and the one saddle horse, at least seven men and boys are visible just to the left of the barn some of whom were probably members of the Dutch Laman family who were living on the ranch at that time." -- McCoy Memoirs p.108 [Title...
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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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LaVeta and Gordon Whittaker at their ranch on Bruce Creek. The old ski tow location is behind them, along with cattle.
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Cowboys driving a herd of cattle over the Eagle River bridge at Eagle.
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Steer roping during the Eagle County Fair & Rodeo, 2013.
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Erin Mooney and his steer project, Eagle County Fair 1963.