Calvin and Polly Garrison were married in 1865 and settled on the Klickitat Prairie, which is near the present town of Mossyrock.  For that era, they were fortunate, as all but two of their children lived to adulthood.  Three of the daughters lived to watch Neil Armstrong's moon walk on TV!
The decorations beside the door are birdcages

She doesn't look helpless, does she?  And yes, that is a pistol butt just behind the saddle horn.  Sel & Mary Huntington came to Sulphur Springs about 1906 from a gold mining town in California.  Mary is the child on the far left in the opening photo of the Garrison family. 


 
The grainary of Wallace and J. J. Wiley in 1895.

Location unknown.
These early examples of home photography seem to date from 1906 to 1910.  Above, Frank & Paula Garrison playing with their son,  left above, Mary has a little calf

 
Emma Huntington and Jim Yoke at Sulphur Springs.  Jim was a local boy, about 10 or 12 years old when Longmire and Packwood "discovered" the place in 1854.  Since the Taidnapam people were not involved in the Indian wars of the late 1850's and had no treaty rights, they simply became citizens under the new government.  Jim was one of 17 voters at the first registration in East Lewis Precinct.

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