Nez Perce County Courthouse in Lewiston County. First Court House and Jail, 1st street between Main and "d". Drawn by Myrtle Bailey from description by pioneers. Engstrom Studio, Lewiston.
government employees; representatives; government; group portraits
Idaho Territorial Legislature. 6th Session. Counter-clockwise from top left: 1. Jefferson Williams, Lemhi Idaho(state)2. J. S. Silverwood, Nez Perce Idaho(state)3. J. H. Hawley, Boise Idaho(state)4. Julian Smith, Boise Idaho(state)5. J. J....
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...
Drafts of two works by Clifford M. Drury, "A Concise History of the Whitman-Spalding Mission," and "Chief Lawyer of the Nez Perce Indians, 1896-1876"; correspondence, transcriptions and research notes on Marcus Whitman, Henry Harmon Spalding, Rev....
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...
Reminiscences of farm and ranch life in early Idaho, collected by the Idaho Bicentennial Commission as a local documenation program. Includes descriptions of life in Valley, Owyhee, Power, Lemhi, Bonneville, Bonner, Gem, Elmore and Nez Perce...
Nez Percé Indians-Wars, 1877. --Bannock Indians-Wars, 1878. --Idaho County (Idaho)-History-Sources. --United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Prisoners and prisons.
Correspondence, business records, and Idaho Militia records. Including Civil War letters by and to Shearer while in a Union prisoner of war camp at Fort Delaware, Maryland, and reports of battles in the Nez Perce War, 1877, and the Sheepeater War,...
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...
Near the base of this hill, over 100 cavalry men and volunteers met disaster in the opening battle of the Nez Perce War. Rushing from Grangeville on the evening of June 16, 1877, Captain David Perry planned to stop the Indians from crossing Salmon...
Timeline, map and description of Idaho's gold mining history from Pierce's discovery of gold on the Nez Perce reservation in 1860, to the boom in Murray.
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...
Lugenbeel, Pinkney, 1819-1886. --United States. Army.-Military life-History-19th century. --Nez Percé Indians-Wars, 1877. --Indians of North America-Wars-1815-1875. --Mexican War, 1846-1848. --Fort Wayne (Ind.)-History-Sources. --Fort Boise...
Correspondence, offical reports and special orders relating to Major Lugenbeel's military career which included service during the war with Mexico, establishment of Fort Boise, Idaho, in 1863 and duty as commandant at Fort Wayne, Indiana. Also...
