This picture was taken around 9am in May of 2005. There was a freezing fog that had just lifted in the foreground to reveal this beautiful scened.
The sod-roofed log cabin is representative of the thousands of simple frontier homes that provided shelter for hopeful pioneers who settled Montana.
We learned that rugged frontiersmen built thousands of similar places statewide. Built in the early 1900s, the Parker Homestead was used through at least the 1940s
One of the vanishing homesteads from the turn of the Century and resulted from the Homestead Act of 1862. In 1910, Nelson Parker filed a patent to homestead 160 acres here and built this sod roof cabin. The family later built a larger home near Three Forks and abandoned this one.
In 1939, Orville and Josephine Jewitt bought this place for their family of four children. They lived there through the Depression and World War II