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Charley McCoy and Jake Johannbroer cutting hay on Conger Mesa, 1912.
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Equipment and household goods auction on April 17, 1965. Charley and Josephine Ray sold the former Schrupp ranch to Raymond Horn, making him one of the largest land owners in the area. Photo on p. 226 of McCoy Memoirs.
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Leonard G. Ambos cutting hay, August 1925.
Verso: "The 'Kid' himself"
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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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"Stacking alfalfa hay with a Mormon stacker on the Conger Mesa Schrupp ranch in 1912. In those days, after hay was cut and raked it was first put in shocks and when ready to be stacked it was loaded on slips or wagons with a fork after hay slings had been placed on the bed of the slip or wagon. Arriving at the stack yard, the stacker, operated by the same horses that brought in the load, picks up the sling load of hay, raises and swings it around...
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The John J. Ambos homestead and cabin.
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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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Unidentified man picking potatoes on Conger Mesa. Date discrepancy: front of photo says 1928; verso says 1927.
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"The Martin Schomers ranch, as it looked in December of 1919. It was the twenty-fifth of April before this snow was all gone." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 263
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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...
12) Conger Mesa
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View looking southwest from the Black Mountain Ranch in the direction of Castle Peak.
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The Black Mountain Ranch at this time had about 50 acres under cultivation, the balance of the 1,100 acres was pasture and timberland....John Ambos and his mother put in twenty years of hard work here, before selling the place to Willard Atwood in the spring of 1941. -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 245
"The main part of the ranch house on the Black Mountain Ranch was built by Tony Johannbroer in 1910, and the addition by John Ambos in 1928. Tony and his wife...
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Two hands are picking up potatoes and throwing them on the sorter, which is pulled by a horse. Ed Schrupp is at the back of the sorter, filling sacks. Other horses and sorters are seen at right background.
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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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"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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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...
18) Ebert Ranch
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Looking toward Castle from Black Mountain Ranch on Conger Mesa, facing southwest. Ebert Ranch is visible at midground. Alternate descriptions of this photograph date it to 1925.
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View of Conger [Congor] Mesa looking southwest. Train is in midground.
20) Conger Mesa
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Congor Mesa looking east from Tunnel 49. Train at midfield. Photo date is 1924; Album 1 index date is 1936.
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