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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."...
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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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Photo postcard looking down on H. K. Brooks' Bar X Ranch, Eagle, Colorado. The Eagle River is at the bottom of the photo.
Hollis "Holly" Kelloway Brooks came to Eagle County from Minnesota, settling first in McCoy and then operating a general store in Edwards. From 1926 to 1929, he was the County treasurer. In 1931 and through the 1940s, he owned and operated the Bar X Ranch (formerly the Castle Peak Ranch) in Eagle.
Before Brooks, the ranch...
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The Brooks water wheel in 1970 showing signs of deterioration. Water wheels were common along the Colorado but the Brooks wheel is one of few still standing.
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"In 1917 Howard and Mattie Van Horn and daughters came over from Edwards on the Eagle River and bought part of the Groh ranch from Hollis Brooks, the owner at that time. The land they bought had about thirty acres in cultivation and under a ditch. There were no other improvements except some fence, so the Van Horns built this better than average ranch house and other buildings so necessary on every ranch. After living here several years they bought...
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"At the former Groh ranch on Rock Creek above McCoy in 1916 [photo dated 1917]. Here are: George Shepard, John Brooks [Jr.], Jessie [Brooks] Groh and Harry Groh. George, a faithful worker had been associated with the Brooks family for many years." -- McCoy Memoirs p.124
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The Brooks water wheel on the Colorado River, near McCoy. Yarmony Mountain is in the background.
Earl and Elsie Brooks sold the McCoy Hotel in 1919 to "Edith Stifel and purchased the former Charles Nelson place on the Colorado River. The place was badly rundown when Earl bought it and there were no improvements to speak of. So beginning from scratch they started the big undertaking of making it a modern ranch. Almost the first things which had to...
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Photo looking north on H. K. Brooks' Bar X Ranch, Eagle, Colorado. The Eagle River is at the bottom of the photo; Castle Peak is at the midpoint along the skyline.
Hollis "Holly" Kelloway Brooks came to Eagle County from Minnesota, settling first in McCoy and then operating a general store in Edwards. From 1926 to 1929, he was the County treasurer. In 1931 and through the 1940s, he owned and operated the Castle Peak ranch (Bar X) in Eagle.
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"The Brooks Bridge, built by the railroad company during construction of the Dotsero Cutoff, replaced an earlier one near the same site. It is now in a sad state or repair and unsafe for other than light traffic. Adjacent to the north end of it is the railroad track and it was here that Leonard Horn had the misfortune to be caught by a train while driving cattle across the bridge, resulting in the loss of several head that were struck by the train."...
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Restoring the Brooks Water Wheel in the fall of 1993.
"This past week, while Comer was reading a morning newspaper in his home, he heard a major crashing noise and immediately knew his beloved water wheel was taken out by the mighty high waters of the Colorado River." -- Raymond Bleesz, History in Need of Repair, Vail Daily June 4, 2014 p.A2
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Florence Scrivens (left) and Elsie Brooks standing outside in the snow.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
12) McCoy Hotel
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The McCoy Hotel in the trees, with a pile of antlers at the extreme left of the photo. Bud and Ethel Brooks are in the Maxwell automobile.
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A closer look at the barn at H. K. Brooks' Castle Peak Ranch. The cattle are eating at feeders at mid-field.
Hollis "Holly" Kelloway Brooks came to Eagle County from Minnesota, settling first in McCoy and then operating a general store in Edwards. From 1926 to 1929, he was the County treasurer. In 1931 and through the 1940s, he owned and operated the Castle Peak ranch (Bar X) in Eagle.
Before Brooks, the ranch was sold by John Carey in September...
14) 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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"A photo of the Brooks water wheel as it appeared in Empire Magazine about 1972. John Comer, the owner of the former Brooks ranch, is standing in front of it." -- McCoy Memoirs p.153
1962 is written on the front of the photo.
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16) Three of a kind
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"Three of a kind, Margie Brooks Smith, Lulu Horn and Madgel Brooks Schattz. Margie and Madgel are twins." -- McCoy Memoirs p.210
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"The east end of the Hotel, two years after the Brooks family had taken over from George Bechtelheimer in 1913. The occupants of the Brooks' family Maxwell car are unidentified, but some members of the family can be seen inside the fence, with Ethel and Bud in front of it." -- McCoy Memoirs p.96
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Photo postcard looking northeast of James E. Ullman's Castle Peak Ranch in Eagle. Ullman bought the ranch from John Carey in September 1919 for $28,000. It included ninety acres of farming land in the home place and included summer range on Castle. [EVE Sept. 19, 1919 p.1]
The ranch was purchased by Holly Brooks in 1931.
19) McCoy Station
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"At the McCoy railroad station, Sept. 6, 1913. In back: Earl Brooks, Eunice Redmond, Phil Hines, [?]
In front: John LaForce, Annie Panting, Edith Hemsworth, Harry Groh, [?], Charley Horn and H. W. Plum, the depot agent." -- McCoy Memoirs p.166
The sign for McCoy has the elevation: 7,210 feet; no population.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
20) Hunters
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Showing the catch after hunting outside of Eagle, Colorado. From left to right: Joe Allen, Bill Luby, Les Randall, Holly Brooks. They are posing with deer heads in front of an automobile.
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