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A group photo taken on March 24, 1930, Easter Sunday, at the Thompson Ranch on Conger Mesa.
"From left to right in back: Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bowles and their two children, Mary and Joe Nichols, Helen and Art Hudson, Bill and Verna Johannbroer, Verna Rose Johannbroer, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hamilton, Francis, Eleanor and Blanche Thompson, Harry Abbett, Bill and Florine Connor, Edith Thomas, Charley Thompson, Martin Schomers
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"Black Mountain, el. 10,000 and the ranch, shortly after Judge M. Lyle had purchased the property and converted it into a guest ranch." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 248
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A group photo taken on March 24, 1930, Easter Sunday, at the Thompson Ranch on Conger Mesa.
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Leonard G. Ambos cutting hay, August 1925.
Verso: "The 'Kid' himself"
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Studio portrait of Ferdinand W. Ambos, 1889-1978, in U.S. Navy uniform.
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The John J. Ambos homestead and cabin.
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7. Aboard ship
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Ferdinand W. Ambos, at right, and fellow sailor aboard ship in 1912.
"Ferd worked at a number of jobs away from hone including ranch work, carrying the Burns mail on horseback for Charles McCoy. Ferd served four years in the U. S. Navy. He also studied to be a civil engineer and was one of the engineers on the preliminary survey of the Dotsero Cutoff in 1924. After that job was completed he did engineering work for several railroads and was an...
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The Black Mountain Ranch at this time had about 50 acres under cultivation, the balance of the 1,100 acres was pasture and timberland....John Ambos and his mother put in twenty years of hard work here, before selling the place to Willard Atwood in the spring of 1941. -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 245
"The main part of the ranch house on the Black Mountain Ranch was built by Tony Johannbroer in 1910, and the addition by John Ambos in 1928. Tony and his wife...
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"No doubt, quite a number of ranchers still living will remember that Grandaddy of all winters, 1919-1920 when stockmen were forced to start feeding hay a month earlier than usual and only a very few had enough feed to see their stock through the winter and a late, late Spring. Several cattlemen of the McCoy area were out of hay before the first of April, when there was still from twelve to thirty inches of snow on the ground. Rather than seeing their...
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"About 1916 on the Conger Mesa. Lillian Johannbroer, Mary and Katherine Ebert, Leona White (a school teacher), Lena Schrupp and Minnie Ambos." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 259
Phot taken by Ferdinand Ambos.
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A team of horses (Bill and Tom) pulling a sled of wood in the canyon above Black Mountain Ranch, 1928. Cabins visible in background.
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Studio portrait of Leonard G. Ambos, 1890-1962, in U.S. Navy uniform.
Verso: "Leonard Geo. Ambos, 1890-1962. 8268 8262 Ambos. L. G. Ambos return to Mrs. Grace Abbott, Pershing, Colo. Routt Co., Colorado, copy no. 5, group 27"
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13. Ambos Homestead
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The John Ambos homestead on Congor Mesa, March 20, 2008 (looking northeast).
"The Ambos ranch buildings on Conger Mesa in 1907. John Schiller, a Yampa carpenter, did the finishing work on the house after the logs were laid up. Members of the Ambos family lived here until 1919. Among others who occupied it after that date were: the Warren Henry and Hugh Norman families; Shorty Anderson and his son-in-law, Patscheck. Charley and Mildred Cock were...
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The John Ambos Ranch on Congor Mesa in the foreground with the Martin Schomers Ranch in the background.
Martin Schomers was among the last to homestead on the Congor Mesa. "Schomers died of tick fever in May of 1940 after being ill only a short time. The children fell heir to his property but since two were still minors, the estate was not settled until 1944. During the intervening time Darrell Ray, who was married to Helen Schomers in 1939, operated...
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View of Conger [Congor] Mesa looking southwest. Train is in midground.
16. Conger Mesa
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Congor Mesa looking east from Tunnel 49. Train at midfield. Photo date is 1924; Album 1 index date is 1936.
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"The first school on the Conger Mesa was held in a small cabin on the Schrupp ranch in 1911. The second one was held in this log house built by John Conger in 1892 and abandoned by him a few years later. The building was none too warm and the school furnishings crude but after seven years without a school, no one complained. The building served as a school until a frame building was built in a more central location in 1916.
In the fall of 1912...
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"Conger Mesa 1917. Group at the John Ambos ranch. Harry, Grace and Emma Abbett, Minnie and John Ambos, Grandpa Louis Klumker of Long Park." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.243
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Students and teacher at Conger Mesa School, December 1912.
From left, Marie Theisen, Ed Schrupp, Cecil Gray, Emma Theisen, Katherine Ebert, John Ambos, Mary Ebert, Kate Pound (teacher), Ethel Gray, Lena and Emma Schrupp.
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20. 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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