Members of the National Geographic Society's 1935 Salmon River Expedition. Pilot Unidentified. Men standing (left to right): Philip J. Shenon, Maynard O. Williams, D. Worth Clark, John Reed, Unidentified. Howard Flint, US 75.
Members of the National Geographic Society's 1935 Salmon River Expedition. Left to right: Maynard Owen Williams (photographer, chief editor of National Geographic), Philip J. Shenon (U.S. Geological Survey), Howard Flint (U.S. Forest Service, died...
Salmon, Idaho. The first car to appear in Salmon, Idaho, probably on July 4, ca. 1905, was driven from Montana for the day. From left to right in the front seat is Fred Vogler, the driver; then Laura and Lena Shoup of Salmon. Left to right second...
Miners; Mining equipment; Headframes (Mining); Children; Women
Eleven miners, a boy and a woman (in light dress with umbrella) gathered around a wooden headframe at the A D & M Mine near Gibbonsville in Lemhi County, Idaho. Head frame for the new shaft. People unidentified
Mine and mill buildings at the Ima Mine near Patterson, Idaho. Located on the Pahsimeroi River. Photo shows the mine and buildings at the base of a rocky brush covered mountain as well as a residence in the right foreground. A tailings...
Some of the first buildings at Leesburg, Idaho. The photo taken in 1870 by A, F. Thrasher shows a group of men stand on a wooden sidewalk in front of the buildings. One man is mounted on a horse.
Monument rected July 17, 1926, at Leesburg, commemorating the discovery of gold in July 1866. The monument was erected by O. E. Kirkpatrick, Leesburg. Two of the women in the group are Mrs. Esther Amonson Pyeatt, and Mrs. Anna Edwards Wright,...
In her interview on May 6, 1970, Mina LaMonte spoke of her time in Idaho. LaMonte discussed the time period from the 1880s to about the 1920s. She spoke about how she took care of her children while her first husband was sick by working mines,...
Excerpt from interview with Mina S. LaMonte on May 6, 1970, where she spoke of her time in Idaho. LaMonte discussed the time period from the 1880s to about the 1920s. She spoke about how she took care of her children while her first husband was...
Reminiscences of farm and ranch life in early Idaho, collected by the Idaho Bicentennial Commission as a local documenation program. Includes descriptions of life in Valley, Owyhee, Power, Lemhi, Bonneville, Bonner, Gem, Elmore and Nez Perce...
Washing out gold using hydraulic mining equipment in the Salmon River Country, Lemhi County, Idaho. Hydraulic mining was done alongside mountains and riverbank.
Fifteen men sitting on a pile of milled lumber at the Bonanza Placer Mine near Leesburg, Lemhi County, Idaho. Men are wearing overalls, shirts, hats, and boots. There is a horse in the background and the landscape is lined with trees.
Sacagawea, 1787-1884. Western state names of Indian origin: Idaho Gem of the Mountains. Shoshoni contribution to the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Notes on Old Fort Lemhi. Arapaho massacre told in petroglyphs. Shoshoni Indians-History. Indians of...
Correspondence and notes relating to Idaho's Native American history; manuscript copies of "Western State Names of Indian Origin: Idaho Gem of the Mountains," "The Shoshoni Contribution to the Lewis and Clark Expedition," "Notes on Old Fort Lemhi,"...
