Hand tinted photo of Fort Owen barracks, Montana, showing interesting and significant detail. Probably from the A. L. Stone Collection. The photo was copyrighted in 1910 by J. G. Showell, Bitterroot.
White on-lookers watch as two Flathead Indian women dig bitterroots with their traditional digging tools. Photo was probably taken on the Flathead Reservation in the early 1950's.
"Trenching the Graham Creek Fire, 1910." Probably from: Notes on Observations in National Forests and Elsewhere During the Summer of 1910, p. 25, by J.E. Kirkwood. Image shows two men digging fire line on a forested hillside.