Imagine a stretch of Land that is completely quiet and has been mostly undisturbed. Something like that is almost unimaginable in today’s world, but back in the early 1900s reality was far different than we know. This image is from a glass lantern slide from the J. G. Hutton Collection at the museum. It was taken on May 3, 1918 in the Okobogo Creek area west of Onida. The land is very barren, save for a single house and a lone tree in the middle ground and a farmstead on the right. If you have ever visited the South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum, you may recognize this as the photomural in the claim shanty exhibit.