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From left, Clark and Walter Gates going on a camping and hunting trip. Clark is "probably scanning the countryside for elk." -- The Gates Genealogy
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A camping trip with buckboard and tent. Dessie is in white at the right; Earl is fence sitting at far left. Another couple is with them and there's a buckboard in the center of the scene.
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From left, Clark Gates, Bert Gates (standing) and cousin Walter Gates cooking during a hunting trip. Pork and Beans were definitely on the menu.
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Campsite with tent at far right, clothes drying on bushes, and dog keeping guard.
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"These hunters were camped on Black Creek, ten miles north-east of McCoy in 1912. They are: Rudolph Ebert, Carl Schrupp, Ernest Werner and Fritz Arendt. The photo by Martin Schomers. At that date, it's doubtful if any one of the group possessed a hunting license. Note the grouse hanging on the tree, one of the reasons that grouse, once so plentiful in those days, are so scarce now." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.11 Photo postcard. [Title supplied from...
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Walter (left) and Clark Gates, cousins, standing by a campfire. Walter frequently visited his cousins, coming from Nebraska in the summertime.
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From left, Walter and Clark Gates going on a camping and hunting trip.
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Campfires, tents, campers and horses at Tigiwon. [The number 25 is written on the upper left margin of the photo.]
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Pilgrims gathered around a campfire at the Tigiwon Post Office, sometime between 1929 and 1934. Caption by O. W. Randall: "These were times when we had no Community House." The Tigiwon Post Office was established June 5, 1929. "By 1934 the U.S. Forest Service had built the long-awaited trail up Notch Mountain, first used by the seventh pilgrimage that year. A lodge [Community House] at Tigiwon was also completed by 1934." -- Robert Brown, Holy Cross--the...
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Don Knight, seated in front of a tent, putting on his boots. Campfire with utensils in foreground. Caption on verso: "French Creek 1939" "Access Gold Park, Holy Cross City on Forest Service Road 703. Holy Cross City via Gold Park is a one-way road. Or, from the Missouri Lake Trail head to French Creek, use Forest Service Road 727. The road to Holy Cross City used to be a good road. We drove up it all the time. Now, Buster [Beck] said, it is...
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From left, Buster Beck, Durbin McIlnay, and Frank Robinson at a logging camp on the upper Wearyman Creek.
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Perlita Knight [Gauthier] working at a table while camping at French Creek. Tent in background.
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Pilgrims gathered around a campfire at the Tigiwon Post Office, sometime between 1929 and 1934. Dr. Randall is seated facing the camera at far right. Caption by O. W. Randall: "21. Campfire at night, Tigiwon." The Tigiwon Post Office was established June 5, 1929. "By 1934 the U.S. Forest Service had built the long-awaited trail up Notch Mountain, first used by the seventh pilgrimage that year. A lodge [Community House] at Tigiwon was also completed...