A woman seated on a Palomino horse is guided by a man on foot at the Harry Carey Trading Post in San Francisquito Canyon. Actor Harry Carey Sr. established this ranch and trading post in the late 1910s. The ranch included the family's wooden ranch home as well as several outbuildings, while the trading post is where tourists could buy Western and Indian curios and enjoy entertainment from Native American and other performers. Harry Carey Jr., who also became an actor, was born on the ranch in 1921. Less than two years after this photograph was taken, the great St. Francis Dam broke, wiping out the trading post. Fortunately, many of the residents had left the ranch and their lives were spared. The ranch house was situated at a higher elevation and survived the flood, but burned down in 1932. The Careys replaced the structure with a Spanish adobe home, which was sold along with the ranch in 1945. Photo dated: October 31, 1926.
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