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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" [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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Photo says 1909, McCoy Memoirs says 1910. Photo verso: Group at the Gates Road House on the Gore Road. Minnie Ambos, Mrs. Schaefer, Raine LaForce and Huldah Hadley. "At the Rock Creek Ranch on the Gore in 1910. Minnie Ambos, Mrs. Schaefer, Raine LaForce and Huldah Hadley, his sister." --McCoy Memoirs, p. 301 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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...