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1) Violin class
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Violin class in Butte, Montana. Ferdinand Ambos is in the back row, 5th from the left. The Ambos family lived in Butte from 1897 to 1900.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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A group photo taken on March 24, 1930, Easter Sunday, at the Thompson Ranch on Conger Mesa.
"From left to right in back: Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bowles and their two children, Mary and Joe Nichols, Helen and Art Hudson, Bill and Verna Johannbroer, Verna Rose Johannbroer, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hamilton, Francis, Eleanor and Blanche Thompson, Harry Abbett, Bill and Florine Connor, Edith Thomas, Charley Thompson, Martin Schomers
In front: Minnie Ambos, ? ...
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Photo postcard of the Black Mountain Ranch (1960s), showing the lake and a wagon.
Verso reads: "Black Mountain Ranch, McCoy, Colorado 80463, Phone: Wolcott (303) 926-2300. September view of lake and mountains from front porch of lodge. Open year round. Excellent fishing, hunting, riding, snowmobiling in season. New cabins, good food and fun for the entire family."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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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"Black Mountain, el. 10,000 and the ranch, shortly after Judge M. Lyle had purchased the property and converted it into a guest ranch." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 248
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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A group photo taken on March 24, 1930, Easter Sunday, at the Thompson Ranch on Conger Mesa.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Leonard G. Ambos cutting hay, August 1925.
Verso: "The 'Kid' himself"
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Companion photo to 1992.004A.039, McCoy Memoirs, p.10
"McCoy hunters on Piney Creek in 1907 are Harry Groh, Fritz Arendt, and Emmett Quinlan." Ferdinand Ambos took the photo.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
10) Mormon Stacker
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"Ready to stack hay on the Carl Forster ranch on Sheephorn Creek in 1906. Leonard Ambos is on the slip. Notice the guy ropes on the Mormon Stacker. Without them these stackers could easily upset and did once in a while. The buildings seen among the trees on the left are on the Clarence Rundell ranch." -- McCoy Memoirs p.318
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
11) Conger Mesa
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Conger Mesa looking southwest from Sawmill Mountain.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Studio portrait of Ferdinand W. Ambos, 1889-1978, in U.S. Navy uniform.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Biew of Black Mountain Ranch in February 1939. Animal is grazing at far right.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Homecoming Day at McCoy, June 15, 1975. Of the 225 who attended, a good many had left shortly before the picture was taken by Tom Sherwood." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.338
The photo has been name indexed and is available at the Eagle Public Library Local History Department. ...
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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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Josie Ruehle, at left, and Minnie Ambos at the Black Mountain Ranch in 1925.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The John J. Ambos homestead and cabin.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
19) Gates Road House
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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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"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.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared...
