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...
Three Nez Perce at the time of the 1863 Treaty negotiations. On left is Timothy. White men (left to right): unidentified, Robert Newell, Perrin Whitman, unidentified. Lawyer is Indian in center. On right is Jason. This was the Pe-Lumptk or...
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.
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...
Drake, John M., 1830-1913. --United States. Army. Cavalry.-Oregon. --Shoshoni Indians-Wars. --Indians of North America-Wars-Oregon.
Biographical information and a handwritten journal dealing with the Indian campaign in Eastern Oregon in 1864. Also includes one essay about the Oregon Cavalry.
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...
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).
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.
