This defile is named for a series of skirmishes between Indians and Emigrants on the Oregon Trail, August 10, 1862. Nine whites were killed, and six more were wounded. As the traveler speeds through this opening in the rocks, he seldom thinks of...
This is the field promotion for Patrick Collins signed by Abraham Lincoln on February 21, 1862. Patrick Collins was born March 17, 1833 in Ireland and immigrated to the United States as a young man. He enlisted in the army in 1855. He served in the...
Last surviving member of the Grimes party which discovered gold in Boise Basin in 1862. This picture was taken in November 1921 at the age of approximately 90 years. Mr. Splawn was within six feet of George Grimes when the latter was mortally...
Idaho. Surveyor-General. Records and correspondence. Boise (Idaho). Mayor. Irrigation districts-Idaho-History-Sources. Boise (Idaho)-Politics and government-History-Sources.
Letterpress book (1902-1908) relating to the office of the U.S. surveyor general for Idaho; scrapbook and other records relating to mayoral terms, Boise, Idaho; correspondence, subject files and other materials relating to irrigation districts and...
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...
Rockwell, Irvin E. (Irvin Elmer), 1862-1952. --Borah, William Edgar, 1865-1940-Statues. --Borah Memorial Statue Commission. --Mining corporations-Idaho-History-Sources.
Correspondence and photographs concerning the Borah Memorial Statue Commission (1942-1948); information on various mining companies; and miscellaneous legal and personal papers.
Automobile dealers-Idaho-Boise-History. --Mines and mineral resources-Idaho-Ada County-History-Sources. --Mines and mineral resources-Idaho-Boise County-History-Sources. --Plumbing industry-Idaho-Boise-History-Sources....
Personal and business correspondence, financial records, and published reports, relating to Adelmann. Includes records of mining activities in Ada and Boise Counties, Idaho; records of the plumbing business in Boise, Idaho, and tobacco and liquor...
Diary of Carolyn Grey Logan (1915-1917); photographs of Logan family members, including Thomas E. Logan, Leonard Logan, and Grace Coffin Logan, all of Boise, Idaho; an autograph book (1976-1879) of Grace Coffin.
Gillis, Wallace David, 1878-1945. Idaho-Politics and government-History-Sources.
Campaign correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, and memorabilia relating to the political career of Wallace David Gillis. Correspondents include Addison T. Smith, John Thomas, and Fred Lukens.
Haywood, Big Bill, 1869-1928-Trials, litigation, etc. Idaho. Attorney General (1887-1890 : Johnson) Trials-Idaho-History-Sources. Lawyers-Idaho-Boise-Records and correspondence. Lawyers-Idaho-Silver City-Records and correspondence. United...
Correspondence and financial records relating to Johnson's law practice in Boise and Silver City, Idaho, and to his term as attorney general of Idaho; scrapbooks concerning U.S. politics and the Civil War (1859-1862), Johnson's law practice and...
Teachers-Idaho. --Saint Anthony (Idaho)-History-Sources. --Caldwell (Idaho)-History-Sources. --Moscow (Idaho)-History-Sources. --Salmon (Idaho)-History-Sources.
Personal correspondence with family members who lived in Massachusetts, family photographs, and miscellaneous notes, pamphlets, and essays by Dickerson.
Postal service-Idaho-History-Sources. --Covers (Philately)-Idaho. --Letterheads-Idaho.
Idaho covers, letterhead, and franked envelopes. Included are examples of Ada and Alturas counties' letterheads, franked envelopes from express companies operating in Idaho's mining districts, Idaho post office covers, and letterheads from the...
The certificates range in date from 1862 to 1958. Some of the most interesting and elaborate are those issued by various expositions, such as the Lewis and Clark Centennial, held in 1905. Also of note: many of the certificates in the Federal...
Photocopies of correspondence from Whitaker to his wife, Mary, while he was serving in the Union Army during the Civil War. A genealogy chart and other letters are included.
