logcabin

Typically Swiss Chalets, it must be either in Wallis or in Graubünden.

Going through the Swiss photochromes on the LOC website, almost all of the winter pictures are from Graubünden/Grisons. In addition to the numbering, which puts them in the vicinity of the now identified images of Davos and St. Moritz (both in Graubünden), "Winter scene in Grisons, Switzerland" is likely the best description...

reminds me of the big horn mountains in wyoming, the old cabins and the mountains too.

It seems the cabin is actually in Oakland California: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquin_Miller en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Miller_cabin.jpg

Exile Bibliophile - they're two different structures. The one show here is now in D.C.'s Rock Creek Park: www.washingtonhistory.com/ScenesPast/images/SP_0607.pdf When this photo was taken, it was located on Washington's Meridian Hill, in the area now occupied by Meridian Hill Park. The cabin was moved by the Park Service in 1913.

It's now near the old Milkhouse Ford in Rock Creek Park.

On pages 385-386 of his book of memoirs, "Roadside Meetings" (1930) Hamlin Garland recalls a week he spent in Chicago in 1898, with the visiting Joaquin Miller: He [Miller] told us of his life in Washington City and of the log cabin he had built out near Rock Creek. "I made that my home for four years, but I was away much of the time. I didn't like it there. Congressmen and their silly wives wore me out. They all came to Washington as the great men in little towns, and their women, raw, silly, curious, had nothing better to do than to seek out Joaquin Miller, 'the man who lived in a tree.' They made life miserable for me and I fled."

Wystan: Love this kind of anecdotal tidbit - one that shows up in an obscure source that you'd never think to look in (or find with a keyword or subject search in a library catalog) if you were researching the subject! Interesting that he uses "the man who lived in a tree" - I wonder if this wasn't a misremembering of Miller's rant by Garland, since Miller's cabin was not far from "Airy Castle", the tree house of Allen B. Hayward, when he lived on Meridian Hill: chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1907-02-17/ed-... Hayward brought a lot of curiosity-seekers to what was then otherwise a comparatively quiet part of the District.

Typically Swiss Chalets, it must be either in Wallis or in Graubünden. The sledge lets me think it might be in the region of Davos because these are made of wood, are still used nowadays and are called "Davoser".

I think you're on the right track with Davos, Tambako. Probably all five of the snow scenes (the three of log houses, the one of the church, and the one view through the trees) are around Davos. mp.ch identified (correctly, I think) Davos Frauenkirch, and the view through the trees has exactly the same mountain in the background that appears in the church photo. Also, all five prints have close or adjacent print numbers (1016, 1021, 1022, 1023, and 1024.)