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Farwell Brown took this photograph of Ida Honderd around 1989 at her farm home south of Story City. Ida Honderd was born in 1902. Since 1896, her family had lived on Pleasant Valley Road, seven miles north of Ames along the east side of the Skunk River. In an interview with Brown on September 5, 1991, Mrs. Honderd recalled that in the fall of 1908, Mesquakie Indians camped for many weeks in her father's open-timber pasture. The Mesquakie came to the area to hunt and fish. She remembered that the group did not bother the farm folks in the neighborhood. (Close-up of the same photograph: ID85.448.6) [Norman Honderd, in a 2009 e-mail message, asserts that this photograph is not his mother and was misidentified by Farwell Brown as Ida Honderd.] An account of Brown's interview with Ida Honderd appears in his book, "Ames, the Early Years in Word and Picture: From Marsh to Modern City," 1993, on pages 11-13.