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Tera Miller with sled and horse team at his place on Bellyache Mountain. Winter weather. Lettuce crates are stacked and covered behind him.
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Leo Cunningham standing by the Haas house at Sandstone Creek. Leo worked at the Fleming Saw Mill in what is now Vail. Dog at right midground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Alex and John Winslow on Sheephorn in 1914.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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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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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The Arthur Horn ranch about 2.5 miles north of McCoy on Rock Creek, in winter. Pete Horn purchased the ranch about 1890.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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From left to right in the automobile: Tom Gill, Ilene Holland (elsewhere spelled Eileen), Margurite Holland (elsewhere spelled Margaret), Louis Holland and Mrs. (Nellie Cunningham) Holland. The company were visiting McHatton's Ranch.
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Looking down on Black Mountain Ranch sitting above low clouds, 1936. The ranch house is at far right, barns and outbuildings to the left.
[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.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"The ranch buildings on what later became the Black Mountain Ranch. When this picture was taken in 1935 [photo has both 1934 and 1936 written on it], it was a working ranch (with emphasis on work) and had about fifty acres under cultivation, the balance of the 1,100 acres was pasture and timberland. Pioneers named the hill in the background Sawmill Mountain. Until 1915 the hill was a paradise for grouse and to see fifty or sixty in a flock was...
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Looking down on Black Mountain Ranch from Sawmill Mountain. The sawmill was located at the foot of the mountain and Dick Webb was the sawmill operator. Photo taken January 1936.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"February, 1936. The Black Mountain Ranch when John Ambos and his mother were living there. It shows the 1925 burn on the northwest side of Black Mountain, caused by carelessness of sawmill operator Dick Webb whose mill was located at the foot of the mountain." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 244
An automobile at lower left is approaching the ranch; a horse harnessed to a sled is standing to the right of the automobile.
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Blanche Dump holding the reins of a horse on which Ruby Dump is sitting. Victor Dump is ready to catch Ruby should she fall. The family is at their ranch at Pando, Colorado. Ranch buildings are visible in the background.
Victor Dump died in 1935 and the family stayed on the ranch for another year before moving to Red Cliff. Frank and Pauline Reynolds Byers took over the Pando ranch and lived there until the Army constructed Camp Hale on the site...
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"Henry Creek 1915, Left to right: Leander Hoyt, Mr. Johnson, Warren Henry, Everett Hoyt." -- verso
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
17) Carl Gray
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Carl Gray of Eagle moving cattle below the Howe homestake cabin on Bellyache during the tour.
A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
18) Cattle drive
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Horsemen Byron McGinnis (left) and Carl Gray drive cattle on Bellyache during the tour.
A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
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Byron McGinnis moving cattle below the Howe homestake cabin on Bellyache during the tour.
A tour of the ranch was conducted by the Eagle County Historical Society and the Diamond S Ranch on October 5, 2013.
