This valley was discovered in 1822 by an expedition of Hudson's Bay Company trappers led by Michel Bourdon. Bourdon had come to the Northwest with David Thompson, who had started the Idaho fur trade in 1808-9. Trappers searched everwhere for...
Known as Goddin's River in the days of the fur trade. This stream originally was named for the trapper who discovered it. Thery Goddin, a prominent Iroquois who explored this river in 1819 or 1820, had come here with Donald Mackenzie's fur hunters...
Material consists of correspondence with Idaho State Historical Society officials Gertrude McDevitt, H. J. Sweeney and Merle Wells from 1932-1959 regarding Idaho territorial history, Pacific Northwest fur trade routes. The correspondence includes...
Dedication of Memorial, Hope, Idaho. This commemorates this coming of the first white man to Lake Pend D'Oreille, David Thompson, Explorer, Geographer and Fur Trader, September 8, 1809.
Drafts of two works by Clifford M. Drury, "A Concise History of the Whitman-Spalding Mission," and "Chief Lawyer of the Nez Perce Indians, 1896-1876"; correspondence, transcriptions and research notes on Marcus Whitman, Henry Harmon Spalding, Rev....
Day, John, d. 1820?. --Frontier and pioneer life-West (U.S.) --Massacres-Idaho-Birch Creek. --Rodeos-Idaho-History. --West (U.S.)-History. --Alaska-Gold discoveries-History.
Scrapbooks, correspondence, and photographs relating to Harrington's travels and interest in frontier history. Subjects include the Alaska gold rush of the 1898; the Birch Creek massacre in Idaho in 1877; John Day (1741-1820), trapper for the...
Material relating to the fur trade era of the Pacific Northwest, particularly to Francois Payette. Largely copies from the Spokane House journal, Peter Skene Ogden's Snake Country journals, and the journals of John McLoughlin, John Work, Nathaniel...
