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Leonard G. Ambos cutting hay, August 1925.
Verso: "The 'Kid' himself"
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Biew of Black Mountain Ranch in February 1939. Animal is grazing at far right.
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Wilhelmina Schoop Ambos, her daughter-in-law Minnie (married to Leonard), and grandson, Jack (son of Minnie and Leonard), at the Black Mountain Ranch. Jack is seated on a horse and the ranch house is in the background.
Verso: "Happy days"
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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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"From left, Minnie Ambos, Mae Grimes and school teacher Kate Pound about to leave the Ambos Ranch and pay a visit to Huldah Hadley, who lived on the west side of Rock Creek Canyon [Volcano]." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 243
The photo is dated Dec. 29, 1912.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]