"These hunters were camped on Black Creek, ten miles north-east of McCoy in 1912. They are: Rudolph Ebert, Carl Schrupp, Ernest Werner and Fritz Arendt. The photo by Martin Schomers. At that date, it's doubtful if any one of the group possessed a hunting license. Note the grouse hanging on the tree, one of the reasons that grouse, once so plentiful in those days, are so scarce now." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.11 Photo postcard. [Title supplied from...

"Earl and Hollis Brooks both loved baseball and one of the first things they did after coming to McCoy was to organize a baseball team from local talent. They whipped up a good team in no time and played other small towns. ... When the men came in for the construction of the Dotsero Cutoff Earl didn't let any grass grow under his feet until he had two teams organized among them and a diamond laid out on his place near the bridge." -- McCoy Memoirs,...