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"Among the last to homestead on the Conger Mesa, Martin Schomers built the back part of this house in 1913, the same year that he and Pauline Johnson were married. They spent a part of their honeymoon here and during the ensuing years their three children were born. Others who lived here for short periods were Leonard and Maude Hudson and their two children; Helen and Darrell Ray; and Art and Helen Hudson and family. For many years, rats have been...
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"The former Theisen ranch house, as it looked when Larry Puryear occupied it in 1970. Built in 1905, it was home to Martin and Mary Theisen and their three duaghters for many years. Others who lived here were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Frost and daughter Elsie; Charley, Blanche, Eleanor and Francis Thompson." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 252
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The Theisens: Emma, Juanita, Mrs. Mary Theisen, and Marie. Martin and Mary Theisen were married in Denver in 1891. Juanita was born in 1895; Emma in 1897 and Marie in 1902. In 1904, they moved to Routt County and in 1905 they established their own ranch on Congor Mesa.
This photo is labeled 1908 but, from the appearance of the girls, it may have been later. --McCoy Memoirs, p.252
Same as 1992.004B.059, second John Ambos album. Only entered...
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The first dwelling on the Kayser desert claim was a tent and it was 1909 or 1910 before this house was built by a Mr. Freeman for Joe Kayser. A number of transients lived in it before members of the Kayser family. Of those, Ralph occupied it the longest. It is presently the home of the Raymond Horn family." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.229
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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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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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"When Renee and Charlotte Wolf bought the Ebert Ranch on Conger Mesa in 1973, this is how the house looked to them. It was built by Rudolph Ebert about 1912 or right after the homestead cabin was burned to the ground. Besides the Ebert family, others who lived here were: Walter and Ethel Evans, Frank and Leila Ault, Pete and Juanita Johnsen, Joe and Mary Nichols then Mr. and Mrs. Jim Brown, who abandoned it for twenty years.: -- McCoy Memoirs p....
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"Built in 1915, this house on the Schrupp ranch replaced the homestead cabin of 1905 which was much too small for a large family. After Mrs. Schrupp's death in 1913, the older children began leaving home one at a time until Mr. Schrupp passed away in 1938. Henry Schrupp then operated the ranch until Charley and Josephine Ray bought it and lived here before selling the ranch to Raymond Horn, many years later. Since then, the house has remained vacant."...
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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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10) 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 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.
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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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13) 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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"A revival meeting at the McCoy Hall in 1916. In the back row of the group are: Florence Scrivens (a sister to Elsie Brooks), Reuben Stifel, Ed Robinson, Cora Mulnix, Mrs. Lovett, Gladys Mulnix, Perry Ault, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bailey, Preacher Tom Smith, Mrs. Kibbler, Mary Walters, Lulu Horn, Elizabeth Ault, Inez Robinson, Hazel Skiff, Pauline Schomers, Frank Panting Jr., Frank Ault. The three young children are: Frank and Edna Mulnix and Leonard Horn.
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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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Conger Mesa residents standing on the porch of a house; dog in foreground. From left: Cliff and Allie Daniels, Mary and Warren Henry, Frank "Shorty" Strutzel.
Found on p. 270 McCoy Memoirs by John Ambos.
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