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Photo of Elwood T. "Uncle Billy" Hofer, in his cabin at Cinnabar (complete with cheesecake pictures on the wall) and eating a meal that makes this entire collection so important, and this image is probably the most important one in the collection, which will be used by Scott Herring in his upcoming (now complete) biography of Billy Hofer.. Identifiable in his meal are buiscuits, corn on the cob, and a bottle of booze.

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Elwood T. "Uncle Billy" Hofer and his water wagon, with bucket hanging from rear of barrel, pulled by a single white horse, near Cinnabar, Montana, looking west to Electric Peak. The entire area today is in Yellowstone National Park.

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Deadfall in forested area with snow; unknown location, but could be in Yellowstone National Park.

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Similar to #21, but only half the photo is present.

(#21: Deadfall in forested area with snow; unknown location, but could be in Yellowstone National Park).

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Almost the same as #34 (similar to #21, but half the photo is missing). (#21: Deadfall in forested area with snow; unknown location, but could be in Yellowstone National Park).

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At least eleven children and their woman chaperone are playing on large boulders on the north bank of Yellowstone River, near Cinnabar, Montana. The photo looks west toward the ridge of Electric Peak. They were outside of Yellowstone National Park then, but the opposite (south) bank of the river is, today, inside the park. At that time, the town of Cinnabar was located on the opposite bank and out of sight of the camera's vantage point.

Scope and Contents Another version of photo #11 with the woman in bonnet, one older girl, and nine children, all posed among large boulders on Yellowstone River, which cannot be readily seen. (#11: At least eleven children and their woman chaperone are playing on large boulders on the north bank of Yellowstone River, near Cinnabar, Montana. The photo looks west toward the ridge of Electric Peak. They were outside of Yellowstone National Park then, but the opposite (south) bank of the river is, today, inside...

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Female dog sitting upright on her rear haunches, and it is clear that she recently delivered a litter of puppies. My guess is that this was Billy Hofer's dog and that the photo was taken outside his cabin near Cinnabar, Montana.

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Spectacular photograph of the western portion of Gardiner, Montana, about 1885 (when this first bridge over Yellowstone River was built), from south bank of Yellowstone River looking northeast to Oregon Mountain and Palmer Mountain. In those days, this was the only bridge to allow Gardiner residents access to the north side of the river and a road that even then traveled northeast to the prospecting diggings of Bear Gulch, an 1865 gold strike that became Jardine, Montana in 1898.

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View of high mountain tops, similar to #1: (#1: Summit of unknown mountain looking out to tops of many other mountain peaks, probably Absaroka Range in Yellowstone National Park). Possibly taken by Billy Hofer on one of his trips to the summits of the Absaroka Range.