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141. Fritz Arendt
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"The John Ambos homestead cabin, built in 1903. This photo, taken in 1909, shows Fritz Arendt who was batching in it, his dogs and an assortment of firearms. Fritz, an early day ranch hand, hunter, trapper, Game Warden and poacher left the McCoy area for Utah about 1911 and never returned. The cabin was demolished in 1912 and the salvaged material used for other purposes." --McCoy Memoirs, p. 238
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143. Cabins
145. E. J. Bess
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A cabin at Holy Cross City. The entrance to the Mollie Tunnel is visible in the background. An explosion occurred in the Mollie Tunnel on December 16, 1896.
"The accident was caused by the explosion of a shot in a missed hole. Five men were in the drift at the time, and two, Eugene Belmont and P. O. Sullivan, both of Kokomo, were so badly injured in the face and eyes that it is likely they will lose their sight." -- The Aspen Tribune, December...
147. Cabin in Gypsum
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A unidentified individual leans against a cabin near Holy Cross City.
Holy Cross City was a short-lived mining camp located in what is today the Holy Cross Wilderness. A mining camp in the Holy Cross Mining District, Holy Cross City reached a population of 300 between 1881 and 1883. The town included a post office, two general stores, saloon, assay office and hotel, called the Timberline Hotel. There were reportedly two mills in operation at Holy...
150. Dam break results
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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,...
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Darrell, Guy and Boyd Barnes, standing at the doorway of the large cabin at Four Mile (four miles up Eby Creek, toward Castle).
The smaller cabin ..."was built from aspen wood logs and was really small. The roof on this cabin was made of dirt and the family garden was grown on the roof of the little cabin. Phyllis Barnes [Johnson] was born in this cabin one year pretty close to Christmas. ... Guy Barnes cleared more land and built a much larger...
156. Frenchy's Cabin
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Cabin belonging to the Tetreault family of Red Cliff. This photo was taken on Oct. 26, 2010.
Frank "Frenchy" Tetrault was married to Agnes. They had a son, John, and a daughter, Sue.
"Both men were rather small, wiry guys and good workers. Frenchy worked for years as the haulage man for the town of Gilman; the company had a team of horses, a wagon and a sled and he hauled anything he was asked to. In later years, he lived at Bell's Camp and gouged...