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The Arthur Horn ranch about 2.5 miles north of McCoy on Rock Creek, in winter. Pete Horn purchased the ranch about 1890.
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Arthur and Lulu Horn posed in front of an automobile in 1932.
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3) 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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Equipment and household goods auction on April 17, 1965. Charley and Josephine Ray sold the former Schrupp ranch to Raymond Horn, making him one of the largest land owners in the area. Photo on p. 226 of McCoy Memoirs.
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Jack Booco and Leonard Horn on horseback in 1921.
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Main house on the Leonard Horn Ranch built in 1921.
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A picture of the first McCoy High School class. The tall boy standing with the girls is Harold Horn and Leonard Horn is in the back row, far right, with Gern Boco to the immediate front of Leonard.
The smallest girl is Ethel Brooks (in front and not bending down) and Emma Panting ? is on the far left.
McCoy School Districts were No. 18 and No. Jt.4.
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Round-up at the Leonard Horn Ranch, Wolcott, Colorado. Two riders on horseback are separating cattle at the corral.
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Charley Horn and Harry Groh, with horses, preparing to go prospecting.
"When their [Frank and Mary Groh's] first child, Harry, was born in 1891 he had what was always considered a fine distinction in a new settlement. He was the first white child born in a new pioneer community. Olive was born in 1893 and Frank Jr. in 1901." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 125
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"A 1908 photograph of the family of Pete and Melissa Horn. Back, from left: Mary, Mabel, Ida, Maude. Front, from left: Walter, Arthur and Charley. All attended the Cottonwood school at one time or another and all are deceased except Mabel." -- McCoy Memoirs. p. 115
Pete Horn, coming from Bailey, Colorado, purchased the tract from two trappers about 1890, and homesteaded with the help of his wife, Melissa, and seven children.
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11) Road to Kent
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The road to the Kent section house (in the distance), later the property of Leonard Horn.
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William F. Stevens on the left, talking with Leonard and Dorothy Horn at a dinner.
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13) Harvesting oats
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"Harvesting a good crop of oats on the Arthur Horn ranch in 1916. Along with the assurance of an ample supply of irrigation water out of Rock Creek, this soil is very productive. In the background is Table Rock, a lava formation separating Rock and Egeria Creeks. The top of the rock is mostly sagebrush with some cedars and pinyons scattered through it. Until 1950 there was clear evidence of an Indian arrowhead makers' camp including a round area about...
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A $1,000 government subsidy was used to build this house on the Leonard Horn Ranch in 1944, during World War II.
15) Red Point
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Man standing on the cliff at Red Point, on the north side of the Eagle River. The railroad tracks can be seen in the valley below. Leonard Horn frequently jumped his horse across the crevice between the cliff and the hillside.
16) Feeding cattle
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Feeding cattle on the Horn Ranch at Rock Creek, during the heavy snows of winter 1916.
From left: Arthur, Lulu, Mabel, Harold and Leonard Horn.
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The cement bridge near Kent, looking downstream along the Eagle River toward the west. Kent is most likely Leonard Horn's place.
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A group of friends celebrating the Fourth of July, 1916, in Denver. Ella and Agnes Horn are identified in the photo. Inscription reads: "A happy bunch."
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Looking north across the Eagle River from U.S. Hwy 6 with the Leonard Horn ranch house in the distance. The Sherwood bridge would be downstream to the left. There appear to be people in the clearing by the river under the pines.
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"1916. Leonard and Harold Horn heading for the Antelope school, riding their Mother's horse, Benny." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 119
[date on photo: 1917]
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