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Pioneer home of the Cameron sisters, consisting of Annie, Margaret, and Alexandria Cameron, who are shown standing to the right of the entrance. The sisters have lived here continuously for the past 50 years. Their comfortable farmhouse is situated on an eminence overlooking an area of brilliant green slopes in the direction of the city of Moscow. About half-mile down the valley from the Cameron home, running in a general east and west direction, is the famous camas grounds of the Nez Perces. Indians gathered for the annual camas harvest here every year about June 15. The camas was to the Indian what the wheat or potato crop was to the white man. To the Indian, camas was wheat and flour and bread. The camas fields in Tat-kin-mah, the place of the spotted deer, as the Indians called modern Moscow areas, was a noted camas ground. The camas plant, a species of the lily (onion) family, is found only in flood plains and mountain meadows of the Rocky Mountain region and westward. It is, therefore, entirely Western American. No. 2- On Map. About two miles south and one mile east of South Main Street on the west side of Paradise Ridge Road. No. 1- Dr. C.J. Brosnan, No. 2- George M. Tomer, No. 3-4-5- Camerson sisters. Picture 1937. [C.J. Brosnan may have written this text.]
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Title:
Pioneer home of the Cameron sisters in Latah County
Date Created (ISO Standard):
1937
Description:
Pioneer home of the Cameron sisters, consisting of Annie, Margaret, and Alexandria Cameron, who are shown standing to the right of the entrance. The sisters have lived here continuously for the past 50 years. Their comfortable farmhouse is situated on an eminence overlooking an area of brilliant green slopes in the direction of the city of Moscow. About half-mile down the valley from the Cameron home, running in a general east and west direction, is the famous camas grounds of the Nez Perces. Indians gathered for the annual camas harvest here every year about June 15. The camas was to the Indian what the wheat or potato crop was to the white man. To the Indian, camas was wheat and flour and bread. The camas fields in Tat-kin-mah, the place of the spotted deer, as the Indians called modern Moscow areas, was a noted camas ground. The camas plant, a species of the lily (onion) family, is found only in flood plains and mountain meadows of the Rocky Mountain region and westward. It is, therefore, entirely Western American. No. 2- On Map. About two miles south and one mile east of South Main Street on the west side of Paradise Ridge Road. No. 1- Dr. C.J. Brosnan, No. 2- George M. Tomer, No. 3-4-5- Camerson sisters. Picture 1937. [C.J. Brosnan may have written this text.]
Subjects:
families houses
Location:
Latah County
Latitude:
46.698184
Longitude:
-116.991477
Source:
PG 90, Clifford M. Ott Collection, University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/
Source Identifier:
90-01-114
Type:
Image;StillImage
Format:
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