"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...

"A look at the McCoy Hotel from the west bank of Rock Creek in 1916. If the bridge was only able to talk, think of the many interesting stories it could tell about the many travelers that passed over it between Wolcott and Routt County. Flood waters took it out twice, in 1952 when the King Mountain Reservoir dam gave way and again when high water took it out in 1962. After that it was never replaced." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.95. [Title supplied from...

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...

Douglas Martin and Glende Vernice standing next to the remains of a building on the Hank Fox place, Red Dirt Creek. Vesintiner's Dam broke on June 3, 1952, flooding the area down through McCoy. -- Verso Eagle Valley Enterprise June 5, 1952 p.1: "Dam Break Destoys Cabins at McCoy. Homes, ranch property and livestock were destroyed early Tuesday morning when the King Mt. Reservoir dam near McCoy gave way, spilling 600 acre feet of water into Red,...