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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: August 25, 2019
Caption: The Camas Connection Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (upper left) A spring view of the Camas Prairie; (center) Canola blooms light up the fertile Camas Prairie in the Spring.; (top right) One of the first self-propelled combines in the early 1900s. The wagons pictured here are ready to take harvested wheat to storage. A big part of the job was taking care of the horses. Irishman Joseph McDonald is on the combine. Sons Earl and J.B. are on the first two wagons. Earl's son Jim and grandson Mike now run the ranch.; (A Blue Harvest side-bar) Camas, which has pedals ranging in color from dark purple to light blue, blooms in May. Nez Perce women harvest camas with a digging stick (upper right) and examine cooked camas bulbs (lower right).; (The Golden Age side-bar) Hard working men, aided by horse-drawn wagons harvested heavy wheat north of Grangeville in the early 1900s. Many bands of sheep were trailed across the prairie to the high mountains for summer feed in the early 1900s. Twenty-first Century cattle production on the Camas Prairie is often a family commitment.
Submitted: October 18, 2019, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p498434
File Size: 3.477 Megabytes

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