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"A 1924 Rodeo at McCoy. George Bird of Yampa is the rider. The other men on horses are Andrew Henry and Charley McCoy. At that time the entire area east of the hotel and where the school buildings now are was a vacant tract and well suited for rodeos, etc." -- McCoy Memoirs p.35
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Labeled September 10, 1916.
"The Pershing Fair and Rodeo held on Conger Mesa in the fall of 1916 and 1917 was intended to be an annual event until World War One interrupted the plan, so it was only held those two years. The building on the right is a part of the Conger Mesa school barn which was built from logs taken from the old Conger Cabin." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 221
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]...
The July 4, 1926, rodeo at McCoy, Colorado. "Ernest Rundell is the rider." -- McCoy Memoirs p.36
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Eagle County Fair and Rodeo royalty1989-90, ready for the Garfield County Fair parade 1989.
Left to right, Queen, Jo Jo Walker; Lady in Waiting, Tammy Quealy; Princess, Jenny Walch.
Grand County Fair, Kremmling, Colorado in the fall of 1915 [alternate date 1914]. Bob West is the rider on the bucking horse.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
1900s: Town of McCoy with rodeo grounds on the left and hospital in right foreground. The hospital was later used as a community building.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
"This picture was taken about 1900. While en route from Wolcott to Steamboat Springs, the stagecoach passed through Yampa, Colorado, and stopped there allowing the passengers to watch a 4th of July rodeo celebration that was in progress. The stagecoach route was established when the D&RG railroad reached Wolcott in the year 1887." -- The Gates Genealogy
No details or dates have been provided, although this appears to be a rodeo of some sort near the fairgrounds. Cars line the fenceline with people sitting on the front. An entrance/exit is visible on the left side of the photograph. A group of men on horses stand in the back of the circle.
Edie Lederhause, 1980-1981 Rodeo Queen, at left, after being crowned. Karen Greenman, at right, is receiving her sash as Attendant during the Eagle County Fair.