Getting Set Up to Begin Work

For the first week we stayed at the Ranch in the Lodge while we set up our house up on the Camas Prairie 30 miles away.  I will move back down to the Ranch in the Canyon after I finish the research up on the prairie in Grangeville, Idaho, the Idaho County Seat and in Nez Perce, Idaho, Lewis County Seat.

The Camas Prairie is up on the top of these cliffs, 1500 feet higher than the bottom of the Canyon.


Our house at the Bird Farm up on the Prairie is finally set up and we have moved in.

Front of House

View out the back of the house toward the main Farm buildings.

Cali heading into the house.  She will help me hunt birds for dinner.  One of Redneck Joe's dogs from down on the Ranch.

  Getting a solid Internet connection was one of the challenges to getting set up in the house on the Bird Farm.  Matt, the Manager of the Bird Farm put this dish on the top of his house and hooked up a powerful outside router and antenna, so I have a good connection since yesterday.  Driving the 30 to 40 miles down to the Ranch to use the Internet has made for a difficult week.

I will begin at the Idaho County Courthouse on Monday going through Court and Property records.  I will cover all records since the 1860s from the entrance to Lawyer Canyon to where Highway 162 crosses the head of the canyon.  There the Lawyer Creek valley is only 200 feet deep.  This 20 miles +/- of the Lawyer Creek drainage is what I am planning to consider as the boundary of Lawyer Canyon proper.

Lawyer Canyon