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Father Gregory from St Anthony's Retreat House in Three Rivers, CA, is shown holding mass at Cedar Grove in Kings Canyon National Park. Father Gregory and Brother Simon, shown kneeling, are both Franciscan friars. (Photo courtesy of St. Anthony’s…

St. Anthony's Retreat House is shown on the hillside I Three Rivers, CA, from the Veterans Memorial Building on California Highway 198. The retreat house is operated by Franciscan friars. (Photo courtesy of St. Anthony’s Retreat)

St. Anthony's Retreat Home above Three Rivers, CA, relies partially on water received via a flume, or trough, which carries water downhill from higher elevations. Here, Brother Didacus stands on a suspension bridge near where the flume begins on the…

The Reed family is in a buggy in the back of the harvester and wagon that was hauling wheat is sacks.

This team and wagon, operated by the John R. Reed family of Orosi, CA, hauled lumber for the Comstock Mill in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Central California. Other farming families did the same. (Photo courtesy of Munn Reed)

At the ranch of John R. Reed in east Orosi, CA, a 22-mule team pulls each wagon of sacked wheat, or the harvester. The photo was taken in 1889. (Photo courtesy of Munn Reed)

North of Sultana, in Tulare County, CA, wheat was threshed and bagged in the field ca 1888. Seated on bags of wheat at the center of this photo is wheat farmer John R. Reed, flanked by his son, Lyle, and his daughter. (Photo courtesy of Munn Reed)

The Reed brothers, shown here in an 1880s studio portrait, were (left to right) Lester, John R., and Thomas Law (T.L.). John was a wheat farmer in Orosi, CA. T.L. farmed in Reedley, with the city being named after him. Lester farmed in the area…

John R. Reed and his wife, Mary Ann Reed, pose in a horse-drawn buggy in front of their home in Orosi, CA, in 1910, Reed was a wheat farmer. (Photo courtesy of Munn Reed)