The fir tree in the middle of the street near the flagpole is the one on which several Chinese were hanged until near death and until they confessed which one killed Frasier. The guilty were later hanged.
"Old jail in Pierce city. First jail built in Idaho. All the logs for this building were hauled on hand sleds one winter in the early [eighteen] sixties. In this picture it is seen as a Residence but the hold from one of the cells can bee seen in...
Potlatch Forests, Inc. --Clearwater Timber Company. --Edward Rutledge Timber Company. --Forests and forestry-Idaho-History-Sources. --Forests and forestry-Montana-History-Sources.
Newspaper clippings, articles, and personal papers relating to Billings' work with the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho and Montana and with Edward Rutledge Timber Co., Clearwater Timber Co., and Potlatch Forests, Inc.
ate, John P., 1870-1911. --Tate, Emma, G. 1873-1962. --Tate, W. Paul. --Tate family. --Triangle Dairy (Boise, Idaho) --Dairying-Idaho-Boise. --Frontier and pioneer life-Idaho-Clearwater River Region. --Boise (Idaho)-Biography-Sources. --Payne's...
Tate family history and genealogy, including several narratives about family members and their business, the Triangle Dairy of Boise, Idaho; a description of Payne's Ferry on the Snake River, by W.W. Dawson and an account of pioneering on the...
Mining; Gold mining; Gold; Indian reservations; Indigenous peoples; Prospecting; Miners
Part of the reference series from the Idaho State Historical Society about E. D. Pierce (1824-1897) and his prospecting. Instead of searching for gold in country that was reasonably accessible, he became obsessed with the opening of a new mining...
