Believe it or not, I knew and loved two of the people in these pictures:

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This is a picture taken in the late 19th Century at the family homestead in Central Idaho. The young girl in the center standing next to her grandmother in the white dress is my grandmother. She passed away in 2002, just short of her 106th birthday. Grandma was a major influence on my life and introduced me to the love of drawing and painting. The second pic is of her at about the age of 16 with her horse.

The young boy barely visible at the right (your right) side of that group of people is her brother, my grand-uncle. He spent a lifetime working in logging, hunted and fished for all of the meat consumed by he and his wife, and picked enough huckleberrys to feed an army. He taught me how to fish and gave me plenty of laughs. He passed away in 1994.