This valley was discovered in 1822 by an expedition of Hudson's Bay Company trappers led by Michel Bourdon. Bourdon had come to the Northwest with David Thompson, who had started the Idaho fur trade in 1808-9. Trappers searched everwhere for...
Camps; Rabbits; Rabbit hunting; Clothing and dress;
Getting ready for the rabbit hunt, winter 1939. Farmers were having trouble with rabbits, they got the Civilian Conservation Corps people to go on a hunt. "I didn't kill one Rabbit. They called me 'Chicken Lou,' I couldn't kill anything." Lou...
Memoirs; correspondence of the Abbott family; correspondence of the Montgomery family of Rupert, Idaho; genealogical material; yearbooks and newspapers from Rupert, Mountain Home, and Boise, Idaho, high schools, and Boise Junior College; minutes...