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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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83. 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....
84. Branding
86. Rundell ranch
89. 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
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94. Joe W. Edwards
95. 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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96. Hugh Norman
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"Hugh Norman at the Arthur Horn ranch [on Rock Creek] in 1916." -- McCoy Memoirs p.204
Photo postcard.
"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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97. 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.