Congor Mesa, Routt County
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The first dwelling on the Kayser desert claim was a tent and it was 1909 or 1910 before this house was built by a Mr. Freeman for Joe Kayser. A number of transients lived in it before members of the Kayser family. Of those, Ralph occupied it the longest. It is presently the home of the Raymond Horn family." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.229
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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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Studio portrait of Lena Schrupp Anderson and her son, Melvin, taken in 1921 (from verso of photo).
"Lena was first married to Bill Anderson, a son of "shorty" Anderson in 1922, their marriage failed and Lena later married Eric Smith, an Episcopalian minister, in 1927. Rev. Smith died in 1969 and Lena, who is the mother of two children, Melvin and Elizabeth, is presently living in Denver." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 226
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The John J. Ambos homestead and cabin.
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Pershing Fair and Rodeo, September 10, 1916. The building on the right is a part of the Conger Mesa school barn.
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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...
27) Potato picking
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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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The King and Queen of Pioneer Day at McCoy, June 16, 1974, Josephine Kayser Ruehle and Arthur Kayser. Josephine married Carl Ruehle in 1910 and moved to Casper, Wyoming, several years later. Arthur, the youngest of Joe Kayser's sons, was on the Kayser Ranch for only a few years before moving to Oak Creek, where he was employed by the town.
Photo used on p. 337 of McCoy Memoirs.
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30) Aboard ship
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Ferdinand W. Ambos, at right, and fellow sailor aboard ship in 1912.
"Ferd worked at a number of jobs away from hone including ranch work, carrying the Burns mail on horseback for Charles McCoy. Ferd served four years in the U. S. Navy. He also studied to be a civil engineer and was one of the engineers on the preliminary survey of the Dotsero Cutoff in 1924. After that job was completed he did engineering work for several railroads and was an...
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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...
33) 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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36) Ambos Homestead
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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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"The family of Nathan and Viola Ray in 1959. Diana, Beverly, Gary, Linda, Larry, Cheryl Ann. Kristi not show, she entered the family later. Nathan is the son of Daniel and Lilly Ray and Viola's parents are Martin and Pauline Schomers." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 263
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A studio portrait of the Schrupp family taken in Golden, Colorado, 1901. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Schrupp and family of six: Carl, Louise, Edward, Lena, Emma and Minnie.
"Ed Schrupp,his wife, Philomene and their six children came from Golden where he had been employed by Coors Brewery. He had filed on a homestead on the extreme south end of Conger Mesa.... Mr. Schrupp built a cabin on his own homestead but it wasn't occupied until 1905. The Schrupp children...
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Iva and Marvin posed for a photo while haying on Congor Mesa Road
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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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