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1920 McCoy baseball team, from left to right: Jack Booco, Gern Booco, Wymer Dixon, Ralph Kayser, Ted Harris, Bill Babcock, Early Brooks, Bill Babcock Jr., Carl Schrupp and Frank McCalister.
"The first ball park was just north of the Salt Well where the sage brush had been grubbed out and the ground leveled. ... Later the ball park was moved to the extremem lower end of Conger Mesa on Louise Schrupp's acres and a short distance from the McCoy Depot."...
2) State Bridge
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By June of 1946 when this picture was taken, the bridge's "age was beginning to show and some weak places had developed and there was talk of condemnation, it being unsafe for heavy loads. So it was no great surprise to anyone when truck driver Jim Jardy hauling a heavy bulldozer mounted on a low boy found one of those weak places and dropped through. Jardy and Bernard Ginther, operator of the bulldozer, were extremely thankful that they did not go...
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Girls posing in front of the Antelope School teacherage in 1921. From left: Emma Maxwell, Ethel Ault, unknown (possibly the teacher), and Myrtle Panting.
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Walter Lieber and George Grant standing in front of farm equipment and shed on Norman Ranch. The Norman Ranch (between Burns and McCoy) became the Orhmand Hurt Ranch in the 1950's. George Grant was the father of Laurene Knupp.
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5) Rodeo 1924
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"A 1924 Rodeo at McCoy. George Bird of Yampa is the rider. The other men on horses are Andrew Henry and Charley McCoy. At that time the entire area east of the hotel and where the school buildings now are was a vacant tract and well suited for rodeos, etc." -- McCoy Memoirs p.35
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The Colorado and Rio Grande Railroad showing the Quinlan [Kirby] Ranch at midfield.
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Shared marker for: "Kirby, Howard, Feb. 7, 1917--June 12, 2007; Ramona, Aug. 19, 1928-- ," in the McCoy Cemetery. A mountain scene is engraved at the top of the marker. An inscription engraved in a heart reads: "Together 59 years."
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Charley McCoy (Charles B., son of Charles H. McCoy) married Stella Hatch in 1900. Daughter Ethel was born in 1902 and daughter Mildred was born in 1913. "Charles B. stayed with ranching and was known as a progressive stockman of the area. He developed a fine ranch on Yarmony Creek, five miles east of McCoy." -- McCoy Memoirs p.107, photo on p. 105
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"This house, located on the south side of the Colorado River is presently the property of a Denver attorney, John Comer. It was build by Earl Brooks about 1920 and considered one of the better homes of the McCoy area. The Brooks family lived in it for seventeen years before moving to California." -- McCoy Memoirs p.152
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Shared marker for: "Kirby, Edith R., Sept. 18, 1915--Sept. 4, 2007; Ronald E., May 17, 1921--June 9, 2000," in the McCoy Cemetery. A mountain scene with pines is engraved on the marker. An American legion Post 195 emblem is engraved at center.
11) John T. McGuire
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Marker: "Sacred to the memory of our brother, John T. McGuire. Died Oct. 23, 1893, aged 26 years," in the McCoy Cemetery. Rushes and leaves engraved on the marker.
13) McCoy Hotel 1944
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"After 1920 the various hotel proprietors made minor and major improvements and remodeling, including types of fence construction." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 97
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"Former Conger Mesa resident, Marie Theisen Fic, now of Denver." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.253
Photo taken on April 5, 1964.
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"Bertha and Carl Baker, ten years after moving from McCoy to Meeker." -- McCoy Memoirs p.179
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Marker for: "Our sister, Kathleen Dooley Stahl, 1884--1918," in the McCoy Cemetery. Inscription at bottom reads "Asleep."
18) 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...
19) Perry Ault
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"Centenarian Perry Ault at Kremmling on his 100th birthday, October 23, 1967." -- McCoy Memoirs p.161
Perry Ault is the author of From Oxen to Jet Planes, 1971.
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20) Louise Branson
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Marker for: "Wife and mother, Louise Shue Branson, Oct. 27, 1928--Oct. 5, 1989," in the McCoy Cemetery. A butterfly is engraved on the left side of the marker; a rose and painter's palette engraved on the right.
Inscription: "She was loved by all."