Congor Mesa, Routt County
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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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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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"When Renee and Charlotte Wolf bought the Ebert Ranch on Conger Mesa in 1973, this is how the house looked to them. It was built by Rudolph Ebert about 1912 or right after the homestead cabin was burned to the ground. Besides the Ebert family, others who lived here were: Walter and Ethel Evans, Frank and Leila Ault, Pete and Juanita Johnsen, Joe and Mary Nichols then Mr. and Mrs. Jim Brown, who abandoned it for twenty years.: -- McCoy Memoirs p....
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"Built in 1915, this house on the Schrupp ranch replaced the homestead cabin of 1905 which was much too small for a large family. After Mrs. Schrupp's death in 1913, the older children began leaving home one at a time until Mr. Schrupp passed away in 1938. Henry Schrupp then operated the ranch until Charley and Josephine Ray bought it and lived here before selling the ranch to Raymond Horn, many years later. Since then, the house has remained vacant."...
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Studio portrait of Leonard G. Ambos, 1890-1962, in U.S. Navy uniform.
Verso: "Leonard Geo. Ambos, 1890-1962. 8268 8262 Ambos. L. G. Ambos return to Mrs. Grace Abbott, Pershing, Colo. Routt Co., Colorado, copy no. 5, group 27"
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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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47) Ambos Homestead
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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...
49) 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.
51) 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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"The first school on the Conger Mesa was held in a small cabin on the Schrupp ranch in 1911. The second one was held in this log house built by John Conger in 1892 and abandoned by him a few years later. The building was none too warm and the school furnishings crude but after seven years without a school, no one complained. The building served as a school until a frame building was built in a more central location in 1916.
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"Conger Mesa 1917. Group at the John Ambos ranch. Harry, Grace and Emma Abbett, Minnie and John Ambos, Grandpa Louis Klumker of Long Park." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.243
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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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55) Fritz Arendt
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"The John Ambos homestead cabin, built in 1903. This photo, taken in 1909, shows Fritz Arendt who was batching in it, his dogs and an assortment of firearms. Fritz, an early day ranch hand, hunter, trapper, Game Warden and poacher left the McCoy area for Utah about 1911 and never returned. The cabin was demolished in 1912 and the salvaged material used for other purposes." --McCoy Memoirs, p. 238
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Date discrepancy: photo says 1932, McCoy Memoirs p.275 says 1925.
"A Conger Mesa spud picking crew on the Joe Tuyls ranch about 1925. Of the six man crew, only four can be identified, they are: Sam Moniger, Frank Ault, John Ambos and Joe Tuyls, all to the left of the sorter. A good crew could pick up to 400 bags per day, providing the yield was good. This crop was well below average with a yield of less than 100 bags an acre." -- McCoy Memoirs,...
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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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"A revival meeting at the McCoy Hall in 1916. In the back row of the group are: Florence Scrivens (a sister to Elsie Brooks), Reuben Stifel, Ed Robinson, Cora Mulnix, Mrs. Lovett, Gladys Mulnix, Perry Ault, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bailey, Preacher Tom Smith, Mrs. Kibbler, Mary Walters, Lulu Horn, Elizabeth Ault, Inez Robinson, Hazel Skiff, Pauline Schomers, Frank Panting Jr., Frank Ault. The three young children are: Frank and Edna Mulnix and Leonard Horn.
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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.
On the ground: August Ebert,...
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The Arthur Horn Ranch on Lower Rock Creek, looking north east toward Conger Mesa (near McCoy).
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