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Charley McCoy and Jake Johannbroer cutting hay on Conger Mesa, 1912.
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"This bunkhouse is all that remains of a good set of ranch buildings that were on the Dave Bailey place at the mouth of Yarmony Creek. The two story log house that Dave and his wife Molly lived in for over twenty years and Tony and Rebecca Johannbroer occupied for another twenty was destroyed by fire about 1937. -- McCoy Memoirs p.134
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"The Conger Mesa School of 1917 was a new frame building located about a half mile north east of the Conger cabin. Some of the earlier settlers of McCoy had never expected this to come about, after their predictions that the Conger Mesa Ditch would go broke and leave. In this school group are, in the back row, Earl Abbett, Martha White (the teacher), Ruth Henry, Katherine Ebert, Florence Henry and Lillian Johannbroer. In front, Roger Butler, Frank...
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Potato fields on the Johannbroer Ranch. Pershing Post Office is on the left. Discrepancy in dates. Photo is labeled 1932, but the caption in McCoy Memoirs says 1928.
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"The Bill Johannbroer Ranch on Conger Mesa in 1970." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 235
"Billy Johannbroer was a locomotive engineer on the Clear Creek Branch of the Colorado and Southern Railroad. He did very little active work on his homestead. His wife and children, Bill, Lillian and Kenneth, were the chief ranchers with Billy only being able to help during his vacations and during slack railroad seasons.
Bill Jr. married Verna Ray, daughter of Daniel...
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Enlargement of another photo of the Fourth of July Rock Creek picnic [1919], showing Lillian Johannbroer in middle, Mary Theisen to her right; Kenneth Johannbroer and Helen Butler in very front.
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"Mrs. William Johannbroer beside a new potato digger. Four horses were required to pull one of these." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 234
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"About 1916 on the Conger Mesa. Lillian Johannbroer, Mary and Katherine Ebert, Leona White (a school teacher), Lena Schrupp and Minnie Ambos." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 259
Phot taken by Ferdinand Ambos.
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"The upper part of the Conger Mesa, looking south-east and across Rock Creek Canyon, From Volcano Ridge. Taken in 1919, it shows the Ebert, Ambos, Johannbroer, Theisen, Abbett and a portion of the Schomers place on the extreme right. Before settlement, a well defined Ute Indian trail crossed over the Mesa from Egeria Park to the Blue River, by way of Yarmony Park. Notice the Crater before its exploitation by commerical interests." McCoy Memoirs,...
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"A community picnic gathering at the Yarmony Creek School house in 1910.
Back row: John Payne, Willie Elliott, Arthur Grimes, Lawrence Payne, Perry Ault and daughter Ethel, Lottie Elliott, Lily Grimes, Ada Sperry (Stella McCoy's half sister), Lola Elliott, Stella McCoy, Minnie Schrupp, Mrs. Kibbler, George Brown, Polly Tuck (Edith Stifel's sister), Harry Groh, Arthur Horn, Lily Brown, Connie Rudisill, Guy Grimes, Cliff Daniels, Sam Kibbler, Tom Elliott
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A Fourth of July picnic at Rock Creek, off Congor Mesa, 1914.
"Left to right: Albert Mulnix and son Harold, Frank Mulnix, Foster Evans, Evelyn Hartman, Jim Jones, Ethel Brooks, Gladys, Pauline, Edna and Mrs. Mulnix, Huldah Hadley, Margaret, Bud and Elsie Brooks, Rebecca and Anton Johannbroer and Earl Brooks, directly in front." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 34
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Fourth of July picnic on Rock Creek in 1919.
From left, standing: "Jacob Johannbroer, Frank Garner (on horse), Katherine and Mary Ebert, Florence Henry, Lillian Johannbroer, Pauline and Helen Schomers, Lulu Lowe, Mary, Ruth and Warren Henry, Martin Theisen, Bill Johannbroes (on horse).
Seated: Lily and William Johannbroer, Mary Theisen, Katherine and William Hoff (Martin Schomers' Mother and Step-father), Mary Ebert.
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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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Enlargement of another photo of the Fourth of July Rock Creek picnic [1919].
In back: Lily, William and Bill Johannbroer, Ben and Kate Butler. Second row: Lillian Johannbroer, Mary Theisen, WIlliam and Katherine Hoff, Martin Theisen. In front: Kenneth Johannbroer, Helen and Roger Butler.
Photo found in McCoy Memoirs, p.236.
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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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