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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.
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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.
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Biew of Black Mountain Ranch in February 1939. Animal is grazing at far right.
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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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"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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"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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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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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 Ambos home at 226 Hill Street in Steamboat Springs, Colorado during Christmas 1946.
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Students and teacher at Conger Mesa School, December 1912.
From left, Marie Theisen, Ed Schrupp, Cecil Gray, Emma Theisen, Katherine Ebert, John Ambos, Mary Ebert, Kate Pound (teacher), Ethel Gray, Lena and Emma Schrupp.
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"In February of 1933 there was no snow at the John Ambos sawmill on the east rim of Rock Creek Canyon and very little anywhere in the McCoy area, for that matter. But a year later, there was plenty of it. The A frame just to the right of the mill shed, supports a heavy aerial cable that Frank Haddon had stretched across the canyon for a log hoisting operation in 1930 which was a dismal failure." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.245
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