Willow Springs is a water stop in the Last Chance Range used perennially by students trekking to Death Valley, on foot or horseback. This would be its appearance in the 1940s.
Merritt Holloway was the hired cowboy in the late 1940s as well as Ranch Manager through most of the 1970s. Two images, one of Merritt alone, the other showing unknown student driving tractor
Cars driving to Provo for the Telluride Convention - the road appears to be plowed salt, so perhaps this was taken on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Mrs. Woodhouse is listed as being in the Ford, and the other car appears to be the Buick seen in many DS…