Hence, he moved to the Territory of New Mexico and worked as the postmaster in Glorieta and later on a ranch on the slopes of Mount Taylor, near the railroad town of Grants.

After a long vacation in Europe in 1914 he returned to Chicago and married Shirley Bergman, and brought her to their new residence in Ramah, New Mexico.

They built their house of sandstone 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, also known as Inscription Rock, 10 miles (16 km) southeast of their ranch.

His eldest daughter, Barbara Vogt Mallery, wrote an acclaimed book about her parents' lives entitled "Baling Wire and Gamuza" in 2003.