View of a stop-over or ‘flop house’ on the ‘Old Pole Trail’ (also known as the Wood Mountain Trail) which ran south of Moose Jaw to Fort Walsh and the Cypress Hills area; this stop-over was operated by a man named Murphy and was located on the shores of Old Wives Lake.
Man standing beside a teepee-shaped stack of wood; collected by the Noyes brothers living in the Marshall District in Saskatchewan for the winter of 1905.
Three frame houses, the closest sided with shingles. Two women and boy watch man and child in four-wheeled vehicle, likely jury-rigged, with simple engine attached.