Westward movement; Frontier & pioneer life; Military facilities;
copies (museum) pioneer pictures for 50 year Special Edition, 4/18/1940. Drawing of log stockade and buildings with prairie in fore ground and mountains in back ground
copies (museum) pioneer pictures for 50 year Special Edition, 4/18/1940. Drawing of Stone storage building in fore ground, river and canyon mid ground and mountain range in the back ground. Desert Stage Station.
New building under construction, first building erected on old airport site. Wooden framing and scaffolding form the back drop for the women in the picture.
New building under construction, first building erected on old airport site. Four women are sitting on stone moldings in the fore ground. The boise foothills are in the back ground.
Universities & colleges; College administrators; Cornerstone laying; Cornerstones;
Close up view of the large crowd of people gathered on the construction site of Boise Junior College for the cornerstone laying ceremony for the first building. A chorus is in the middle ground. The Boise river and a bridge in the back ground
Founded late in the fall before the big rush to Thunder Mountain in the beginning of 1902, Roosevelt soon became the leading camp in the new mining district. Thousands of men, having heard that Thunder Mountain was destined to be the biggest gold...
Wells Fargo (Snow) Taken winter of 1867 to 1873!!! Office not the same as 77-19-2. Two houses in back ground of blizzard indicates office located in Granite Block. In 1869 Photography Shop still at earlier location but not Wells Fargo. by 1873 it...
Legal documents, bills of sale, claims, and notices concerning mining operations at Churchill's Bar, Gold Hill, Dry Gulch, Elk Creek and Grey Back Gulch in the Boise Basin mining district, Idaho Territory.
Some of the original locators of Buffalo Hump. 1st row left to right: C. Cone, J. D. Stantial, M. Gilbert, C. I. Flock, T. Plummer, L. Holywood, A. F. Schultz, L. Smith. 2nd row: J. P. Lefler, R. W. Hawley, F. Dorris, C. Robbins, R. F. Carney,...
Some of the original locators of Buffalo Hump. Front row left to right: C. Cone, J. D. Stantial, M. Gilbert, C. I. Flock, T. Plummer, L. Holywood, A. F. Schultz, L. Smith. 2nd row: J. P. Lefler, R. W. Hawley, F. Dorris, C. Robbins, R. F. Carney,...
Some of the original locators of Buffalo Hump. Front row left to right: C. Cone, J. D. Stantial, M. Gilbert, C. I. Flock, T. Plummer, L. Holywood, A. F. Schultz, L. Smith. 2nd row: J. P. Lefler, R. W. Hawley, F. Dorris, C. Robbins, R. F. Carney,...
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...
Trade Dollar Mine at Dewey in Owyhee County, Idaho. Crews from both the day and night shifts are outside the Blaine Tunnel. Photo taken May 1900. "Big Bill Haywood" in front row, fourth from right. Elisha Lewis of Silver City and Boise identifies...
