Flook Ranch

Information from a Fish and Wildlife Service pdf:

"Anna Flook was a 43 year old housekeeper from Kansas, when in 1901
she filed for a Desert Land Act patent in Central Oregon’shigh desert.
She was living in Plush, a farming-ranching community in Warner Valley at the time and her property was not too far from this fertile valley. Yet, her homestead parcel could not be more different, it was several thousand feet above the valley floor on a rocky plateau, with thin soils, and a short growing season.
She is referred to as Mrs. Anna Flookin the patent records, but there is no mention of a Mr. Flook.

Flook found a parcel with water from Rock Creek running through it and set about completing the terms of the patent. First she built a log cabin, then a wood-frame school house, where she taught school to earn some income. Later she built a combination house and school, with a classroom in the front and a kitchen, parlor, and bedroom in the back."

The setting. I'm not sure where students could have come from. The valley below had a small population, but it wouldn't be easy to get here. When I was here in September there was no water in the creek.

Main house.

Front room.

Additional room.

Back room.