A Dream that Came True. Hon. I. E. Perrine (1861-1943) Empire Builder. Father of the Twin Falls Tract, by whose effort & vision the waters of the mighty Snake River were lifted & the desert made to blossom like a rose. Mrs. I.B. Perrine dedicated...
mining; education; families; gold; history; livestock; country life; dogs;
A first person account of two daughters being raised in Idaho City from 1930 - 1943. They moved to Spanish Creek area in 1934 and wintered in Caldwell. The father was a gold miner. Describes his activities sluicing and panning gold. Describes their...
Shoup, George Laird, 1836-1904. --General stores-Idaho-Salmon-History-Sources. --Indians of North America-Wars-1862-1865. --Massacres-Idaho-Birch Creek. --Frontier and pioneer life-Idaho. --Idaho-Politics and government-History-Sources.
A miscellaneous assortment of material from Shoup's varied career as Idaho territorial legislator, territorial and later state governor, and U.S. senator. Included is a copy of a diary kept during Shoup's military campaigns in Colorado, New Mexico...
A-Grant Lumber Co; B-Interior of St. Maries Drug store; C-Cedar Creek Placer Mining Co. panning gold; D-St. Maries street view; E-Kootenai Co. State Bank and Pearson Mercantile Co. street view.
Arthur F. Baumhoff operating a Caterpiller tractor ahead of one of his dredges owned jointly with E. T. Fisher near Centerville, Idaho. Note close connected bucketline dredge in the background.
Bucketline, bucket ladder and front gantry of close connected bucketline dredge operated near Idaho City, Idaho. Note the size of the dredge buckets is comparison to the man in the foreground. The 15 cubic foot dredge was owned and operated...