Early Days At Iatan

1889 - 1910


westtexas1.jpg - 11103 Bytes Unidentified Family Members in a barn scene. It's hard to know if that is a low hanging dark cloud or a sand storm.
buggie0201.jpg - 24007 Bytes Transportation of the day.
iatan4.jpg - 20103 Bytes Margaret Ann (Cummins) Anderson's home at Iatan. I do not know if Buck was still alive when it was finished. They lived in a dugout when they first arrived at Iatan until the house could be built. She is sitting forth from the left with her family around her.
iatan2.jpg - 13702 Bytes In front of Margaret Ann (Cummins) Anderson's home. No one has been able to identify all the persons. The two males are believed to be two of her Anderson sons. Center back Lucy (Rigsby) Anderson.
cattledrive.jpg - 19197 Bytes A cattle drive at Iatan with two female family members. Maggie Lewis left and Mary "Mollie" Anderson right. Mollie married Ike Campbell.
dave.jpg - 24315 Bytes In the cotton patch. Dave Anderson, Buck and Margaret's son is the only one identified. He is on the left.
rocks03.jpg - 14146 Bytes These Rock scenes are believed to be near Moss Springs about 12 miles from Iatan. A popular social hang out for the young folks in the early 1900's.
rocks01.jpg - 26275 Bytes No one is Identified in any of these rock scenes photos.
rocks02.jpg - 26583 Bytes Unless noted otherwise all photos on this page were those of John Luther Anderson. John was Buck and Margaret's grandson through their son James Samuel "Jim" Anderson.
snakes.jpg - 22434 Bytes Rattle snakes killed near Moss Springs. Anderson male(s) not identified. Photo was furnished by Billie Jean Burgess, Margaret's great granddaughter through her son Robert. Margaret Anderson had sent this picture to her sister Addie Adeline Cummins who was living in Kansas.