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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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"Now the Black Mountain Ranch, this was formerly the Helene Johannbroer Homestead as it looked when Katherine Johannbroer Butler inherited it from her mother in 1912. The building in the upper left hand corner was built by Ralph McClochlin about 1900, but served as a homestead cabin for Helene." -- McCoy Memoirs p.267
Kate Butler sold her ranch in 1920 to John Ambos, Jr., and the Butlers moved to Steamboat Springs.
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"The Butler Family in 1912. The year they arrived on the Conger Mesa and made their home on what is presently the Black Mountain Ranch. Here are Helen, Ben, Katherine and Roger." -- McCoy Memoirs p.266
Katherine "Kate" Johannbroer Butler inherited the ranch from her mother, Helene Johannbroer, in 1911. In 1920, Kate sold the ranch to John Ambos, Jr.
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"The main part of this ranch house on the Black Mountain Ranch was built by Anton "Tony" Johannbroer in 1910, and the addition on the right by John Ambos in 1928. Tony and his wife Rebecca only occupied it a few weeks, the Butler family eight years, Amboses twenty, then the Atwoods for several years. Mrs. Ambos planted the two spruce trees in 1926, but they were removed sometime after this photo was taken in 1952." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 249
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