This is the field promotion for Patrick Collins signed by Abraham Lincoln on February 21, 1862. Patrick Collins was born March 17, 1833 in Ireland and immigrated to the United States as a young man. He enlisted in the army in 1855. He served in the...
Last surviving member of the Grimes party which discovered gold in Boise Basin in 1862. This picture was taken in November 1921 at the age of approximately 90 years. Mr. Splawn was within six feet of George Grimes when the latter was mortally...
One photocopy of Smith's 1908 original diary with a typed transcript. The diary was written on a prospecting trip in Northern Idaho and Montana from July to November 1908. Robert Bush Smith was born on a farm in Big Flats, New York in 1882. As a...
Forestry; Forests; Camps; Construction equipment; Mountain roads;
National forestry camp located on Tie Creek near the Middle Fork of the Payette National Forest ,9 miles northeast of Crouch, Idaho. Established November 1937.
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...
daho-History. --Idaho-Biography. --Historians-Idaho-Biography. --Historians-Idaho-Correspondence. --Historians-Idaho-Records and corresponde --Personal narratives of the West. --Photographers-Idaho-History.
"This is a very preliminary inventory of the papers of Merle W. Wells. These papers were processed in his condominium at 200 North 3rd Street #701, Boise, Idaho, between August and late November, 2000. It is important to note that Merle was...
