E. C. "Dick" Taylor holds a gun over his shoulder with ducks hanging from it. He wears a hat and a vest with objects in the pockets. He stands in front of the West's beach cottage. There are shovels leaning up against the cottage and a bench at the left. Taylor stands on a wooden walkway.
Group portrait of 3 young men in rough-and-ready attire: Robert Cascade Hutchinson (standing) holding a lit cigar, Franklin Pierce Ground (right) in a gingham shirt and high boots, and "Anderson."
George Miller West travelled with the Butler (wagon) Train, (organized by the Butler family, members of the Disciples of Christ Church) from Monmouth, Illinois to Polk County, Oregon in 1853. West made the journey to mine in Oregon and California. He wrote a memoir relating incidents of crossing the plains to Oregon and his experiences in the goldfields of southern Oregon and northern California. The memoir was prepared in the form of a 49-page typescript by his son, H. H. West, who distributed the memoir to several libraries and archives, along with copied photographs of members of the Butler Train and one or two mining associates. The photographs were collected by H. H. West from about 1935 to 1942. The name "Leeper" is mentioned in the memoir.
George Miller West designed a "Combined Harrow and Roller" which was patented on June 16, 1891 (patent no. 454,098), and witnessed by J. F. Lemberger (H. H. West's uncle).
Bust-length portrait photograph of Robert Cascade Hutchinson, who was born while his parents were crossing the Cascade Mountains with the Butler Train.
George Miller West travelled with the Butler (wagon) Train, (organized by the Butler family, members of the Disciples of Christ Church) from Monmouth, Illinois to Polk County, Oregon in 1853. West made the journey to mine in Oregon and California. He wrote a memoir relating incidents of crossing the plains to Oregon and his experiences in the goldfields of southern Oregon and northern California. The memoir was prepared in the form of a 49-page typescript by his son, H. H. West, who distributed the memoir to several libraries and archives, along with copied photographs of members of the Butler Train and one or two mining associates. The photographs were collected by H. H. West from about 1935 to 1942. Dave Sickmon is mentioned in the memoir.