Material consists of correspondence with Idaho State Historical Society officials Gertrude McDevitt, H. J. Sweeney and Merle Wells from 1932-1959 regarding Idaho territorial history, Pacific Northwest fur trade routes. The correspondence includes...
Oregon Trail from the Missouri River to the Pacific Northwest with the principal connections, the forts along the line, and the territorial divisions of 1852.
Idaho Statesman Office, on the northwest corner of Seventh & Idaho, ca. 1866. Man standing inside door is Milton Hamilton, man outside is Robert Reynolds.
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...
