010139
DATE: August 10, 1939
LOCATION: Yakima Valley, near Wapato, Washington
DESCRIPTION: Portrait of Chris Adolf. “My father made me work. That was his mistake, he made me work too hard. I learned about farming but nothing out of the books.” Came to the Yakima Valley in 1937 from Bethune, Kit Carson County, Colorado. He owned his own farm there and he had lived there all his life. Drought forced him out with his wife and 8 children....[Farming] 80 acres of Indian land, on three year lease.