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We have found over 400 books in the Log cabin and Curio cabin. There’s a large collection 1850-1904 in the Homestead Room. Other books are placed throughout the Farmhouse.

Well illustrated book of a school teacher’s life with very young children. They were concerned that she would marry and they would lose her as a teacher. Married female teachers had to quit teaching. So they ran off every possible suitor for their beloved teacher.

Cut for John in the 1905 Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition, Portland, Oregon

Russian Wheat award from 1905 Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon.

From the Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon. Daughter Martha Lorang remembered sitting at the kitchen table sorting seeds for this sample crop. She would have been 8 years old.

In “Hope Hathaway”, by Francis Parker

Full of Charles Russell early illustrations.

When John built the new addition to the Farmhouse in 1904, he put in his first phone. Signed by T. Driscoll.