Miner Alva Fields was convicted in a US District Court for selling liquor to Indians in Northern Idaho and sentenced in 1905 to a year in prison. His file contains photographs, court records, and a physical description of the convict.
Scouts of Indian War. Top, left to right: Andrew McQuaIdaho, George Banks, Colonel F. J. Parker, Jack Campbell. Bottom, left to right: Chas. Adams, Rube Robbins, Henry Pierce.
Idaho. Board of Engineers. Nez Percé Indians-History-Sources. Gold mines and mining-Idaho-History-Sources. Nez Percé Indian Reservation (Idaho)
General correspondence (1959-1964); project files (1958-1959). Includes material on the "Nez Perce Gold Case" and correspondence, minutes, and other records relating to the Idaho State Board of Engineers (1947-1962).
Court records-Idaho. --Nez Percé Indians-Photographs. --Baseball teams-Idaho-DeSmet-Photographs. --Lawyers-Idaho-Mackay-Records and correspondence. --Idaho-Politics and government-History-Sources.
Primarily case files (1943-1964) relating to Chase A. Clark's service on the United States District Court in Idaho; also documents concerning Clark's law practice in Mackay, Idaho; and personal and business correspondence, clippings, political...
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...
Mines and mineral resources-West (U.S.) --Gold mines and mining-Idaho-Nez Percé Indian Reservation.
Notes, publications, photocopies, and microfilm of research materials assembled for mineral claim surveys and studies prepared for the U.S. Department of Justice and the Indian Claims Commission (Docket No. 180-A) for Indian lands throughout the...
Camps; Camping; Indian encampments; Indian reservations; Tipis;
Two boys sit by a creek in the foreground. Indian tipis are located in the background. A large group of people are gathered under a pavilion covered with tree branches in the middle distance.
Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874. --Nez Percé Indians-History. --Lapwai (Idaho)-Missions-History-Sources.
Copies of diary and letters of Eliza Hart Spalding. Copies and originals of 1866 petitions from Spalding to the Idaho Territorial governor and the superintendent of Indian Affairs, D.W. Ballard, regarding Spalding's re-appointment to the Nez Perce...
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...
Shoshoni Indians-History-Sources. --Paiute Indians-History-Sources. --Bannock Indians-History-Sources. --Indians of North America-Claims-West (U.S.)
Dockets for cases before the Indian Claims Commission involving petitions by the Northern Paiute Nation and bands thereof for lands on the Mono and Paviotso tracts, Nevada and California (1965); the Shoshoni Tribe of Indians of the Wind River...
By-laws, minutes, stock ledgers, deeds, leases, tax and financial records of a company handling water rights in Ada and Elmore counties in the Orchard, Idaho, area. James H. Hawley was the corporate secretary.
