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The John J. Ambos homestead and cabin.
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22. Nottingham Barn
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Old barn just west of the Emmett Nottingham place. The barn was probably built by Clyde Nottingham around 1908. Beaver Creek is to the left. The old Avon School is just right of center. The first Avon bridge is visible in the foreground in front of the school (west of current bridges about 100 yards and lower to the water). The Joe Smith house is to the right.
This bridge was probably built in the early 1900s. It was replaced by the second...
23. Klumker ranch
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"Six miles due north of the Conger Mesa and five miles northeast of Volcano lies Long Park in the Routt National Forest. Here the Klumker family and a man named Blake took up 160 acre homesteads in 1912. This view of the Park in 1968 shows the Klumker House and near the road in the distance is the Blake cabin. The buildings to the right of the house have collapsed under the deep snows of the region." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 311
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"Just across Rock Creek Canyon from the Ebert place on Conger Mesa, Bert Hadley took up a 160 acre homestead and built this house on it in 1905. Prior to that year, he had married Huldah LaForce and they had spent a part of their honeymoon on the former Milby Frazer place at the head of Egeria Canyon. Bert, who was in poor health, did not live long enough to realize his dream of transforming the homestead into a cattle ranch. After his death, about...
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Charles, Chet, John and William (father) Eaton (left to right) at McCoy Creek Ranch. Each Eaton is holding the reins of a horse and is standing in front of a log barn.
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Doug Hughes and Maybelle "Dickie" Yandell across the valley from Squaw Creek. Dickie is Doug's aunt, Melba's sister.
"Melba Yandell Hughes and her family came to Squaw Creek because of the lettuce. Melba had been married when her family lived in Oklahoma, and had lost her husband after their son, Doug, was born. Eldest of eight children, Melba moved back home so her son could enjoy family life and the attention of all those brothers and sisters--actually,...
27. Rundell children
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Ernest and Helen Rundell, outside the house at the ranch on Sheephorn Creek. Helen is standing on a chair with Ernest helping to steady her.
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"Charley McCoy's Upper Place in 1930.The original log house was destroyed by fire in 1927 or 1928 and the frame house was built shortly afterwards. This picture shows some of Charley McCoy's top grade of cattle. Besides the cattle and the one saddle horse, at least seven men and boys are visible just to the left of the barn some of whom were probably members of the Dutch Laman family who were living on the ranch at that time." -- McCoy Memoirs p.108
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29. Horn Ranch
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"The Horn ranch house on Rock Creek, two and one half miles above McCoy, as it was in 1917. Homesteaders Alvin Hart and Rooks built the cabin with the fireplace, the rest was added on by the Horns. The two bedrooms upstairs and the ground floor was the living room, the fireplace room served as a bunkhouse for ranch hands. Shortly after Arthur Horn's death, Mrs. Horn had that part of the building removed. The Pete Horn family lived here from 1890 to...
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"Abandoned horse drawn farm equipment on the Ebert Ranch." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 260
The two-story Ebert ranch house is at far right background.
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31. Stifel building
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"Another old time building on the Stifel place made of cottonwood and cedar logs. It's anyone's guess what it was built for." -- McCoy Memoirs p.163
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
32. 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 Bailey Family log cabin with cows standing on the roof. Shovel is leaning up against the rock chimney.
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Lillian Eaton and Gladys Hall, a friend from Denver, at McCoy Creek Ranch. They are wearing overalls and hats, posed with rifles and game birds in front of a log barn.
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Charles Eaton with horse standing in front of log barn at the McCoy Creek Ranch.
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"Eleanor, John and Jack [Alonzo] Hudson at their home on Trail Creek, ten miles northeast of McCoy in 1901." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 282
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]