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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....
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Photo postcard of the McCoy Bridge over Rock Creek.
On verso, by John Ambos: "For many years all traffic between Wolcott and Routt Co. passed over this bridge, including thousands of freight wagons, hundreds of stages and many herds of cattle, traveling in both directions. Hi water and floods took the bridge out on 3 occasions. There has been no bridge across Rock Creek at McCoy since Hiway 131."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle...
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Same as 1992.004A.084; p.95 of John Ambos' McCoy Memoirs
Former main road that passed in front of the McCoy Hotel, crossed Rock Creek, and continued along the Colorado River towards Burns. Wagon and buggy teams are tied up at the fencing Several people are standing, one is seated on a horse. Barn and resort are visible as are the bridge supports crossing over the creek. Road continues in the right background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared...
