"1913 - Xmas Day" This is a picture of an early Oregon homestead taken on Christmas day. The snow is deep, and the buildings are set far apart. The house is in the distance, third building from the left.
"Harvey McAlister homestead - 1870 - near intersection of McAlister & Cove Ave. La Grande, OR" [Photograph used in "History of Union County, Oregon" (page 40), edited and compiled by Bernal D. Hug.]
Walter Reuter (on the left), two unidentified young women, and a young man sit on the porch of a roughly made house or cabin. [This appears to be a first homesteading location in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon, probably near La Grande.]