The Evon Zartman Vogt Ranch House is a historic house in the
U.S. state
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of
New Mexico
)
, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque
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. It was constructed in 1915, in the foothills of the
Zuni Mountains one mile (1.6 km) southeast of
Ramah, New Mexico
Ramah ( nv, – place of wild onions) is a census-designated place (CDP) in McKinley County, New Mexico. The population was 407 at the time of 2000 census and 370 at the 2010 United States Census.
Geography
Ramah is located at (35.135013, -1 ...
. It is located about east of State Highway 53. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1993.
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History
Evon Zartman Vogt, born in Upper Sandusky, Ohio in 1880. He entered the University of Chicago
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in 1902, where he became a member of Delta Upsilon
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fraternity. In his junior year, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, which necessitated a change of climate. Hence, he moved to the Territory of New Mexico
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and worked as the postmaster in Glorieta and later on a ranch on the slopes of Mount Taylor, near the railroad town of Grants
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. After a long vacation in Europe
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in 1914 he returned to Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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and married Shirley Bergman, and brought her to their new residence in Ramah, New Mexico. They built their house of sandstone
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and adobe, raised four children, and as the largest sheep ranchers in New Mexico experienced both fortune and as well as economic privation through the 1920s and 1930s.
Evon, known by all as "Skeeter", and by the Navajo as ''Pesoteaje'' ("Little Fat Pig"), was the first Custodian of El Morro National Monument
El Morro National Monument is a U.S. national monument in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States. Located on an ancient east–west trail in the western part of the state, the monument preserves the remains of a large prehistoric pueblo atop a ...
, also known as Inscription Rock, 10 miles (16 km) southeast of their ranch. He also founded the first newspaper
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in that part of New Mexico, the ''Gallup Gazette'' (which became the ''Gallup Independent''), was the Master of Ceremonies for many years of the Gallup Ceremonial, and served as Agent for the Ramah Navajo Reservation. Evon died in 1943; his widow, Shirley, maintained the ranch as a guest/dude ranch during the 1950s and lived there until her death in 1986.
The Vogt Ranch House is still owned and occupied by Evon Vogt's direct descendants. His eldest daughter, Barbara Vogt Mallery, wrote an acclaimed book about her parents' lives entitled "Baling Wire and Gamuza" in 2003. The book was awarded one of the "Southwest Books of the Year 2004" by the Arizona Star
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History
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newspaper. Barbara's elder brother, Evon Zartman Vogt, Jr. (1918–2004), a noted anthropologist and former Co-Master of Kirkland House
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at Harvard University
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, acquired his interest in cultural anthropology thanks to the many local cultures with which the family interacted on a daily basis.
See also
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References
External links
Evon Zartman Vogt, Jr. biography
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Houses in McKinley County, New Mexico
Houses completed in 1915
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New Mexico
National Register of Historic Places in McKinley County, New Mexico