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2. Horn Ranch
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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 low building on the right was the kitchen, the two story addition had 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...
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The George Harris Ranch house in Yarmony Park in 1920. George married Julia Koski in 1915 and they filed on a 320 acre homestead in the southeast corner of Yarmony Park in 1916. "Julia's half brother and sisters, Frank, Sophia and Mary of Denver spent part of every year with them. Mary attended Yarmony School for several years in the early 1920's." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.290
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]...
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Hauling logs on a sled using a two-horse team.
"James P. Gates was a very good carpenter, and decided to build a stage coarch inn on their new land, which as a stop on the stage line between Kremmling and Steamboat Springs, Colorado. So the cutting and hauling of logs began. J.P. knew hoe to use a broad axe to shape the logs he used for building so that they fit together evenly and firmly." -- The Gates Genealogy
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Group of four people, two woman (in the back seat), two men, in a "run-a-bout" wagon with a four horse team. Another wagon in background. Photo identified by name "McCollum" on back and notation "South of Ping's place" on catalog record.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
8. McCoy Lane
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Everett Howard on horseback with another horse to Everett's left. There is a wagon behind the horses. They are standing in front of John Howard's house where Everett's mother is standing on the porch. There is a ladder leading to a sleeping loft visible to the left.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
11. Broadway
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Broadway in Eagle. The building on the right was built by the First National Bank of Eagle County. The two story half of the building was occupied by general merchandise stores (F. Hugus and Co.; later, the Lewis store); the one story side by the bank.
The line of wagons and carriages may be a parade.
Same as 1991.001.046 Photo only scanned once into Past Perfect.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Joe Dice on Sally, the mare, at the Half-Way barn up Brush Creek. Rex, the dog, is visible under the horse's belly. Joe, ten years old, rode past the barn on his way to school.
The Half-Way barn (at the entrance now in 2007 to Sylvan Park) was a stage stop for the Eagle to Fulford stage line. The barn was long with plenty of room and freight wagons could be parked. The teamsters switched horses here and, if necessary, could sleep in the hay.
13. Minturn Store
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Wagon loading/unloading goods in front of the Minturn Store. Several children, women and men are on the boardwalk in front of the store. Tent with sign ("Photographs") in between the store and the house on the right.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
14. Albert Smith
20. 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....