Printed on back: Taken at Pendleton, Oregon; typical dress of early days, but does not represent the subject, who never wore such, always preferring the plain farmer's garb; 76 years old (1906); migrated to Oregon in 1852; has lived there (Washington) ever since; farmer; sole organizer of the Oregon Trail monument expedition; erected twenty monuments; now season of 1907, en route to Washington, D.C., advocating the building of a natioanal road over the Oregon Trail as a monument to the pioneers, to be called Pioneer Way.