"Old jail in Pierce city. First jail built in Idaho. All the logs for this building were hauled on hand sleds one winter in the early [eighteen] sixties. In this picture it is seen as a Residence but the hold from one of the cells can bee seen in...
Boise and Interurban Railway car. Scene inside car barn at Pierce Park showing end of wrecked car Number 1. Wreck was a head-on collision near old packing shed at Eagle. Motor man W. Cox was killed.
Boise and Interurban Railway car. Scene inside car barn at Pierce Park showing end of wrecked car Number 3. Wreck was a head-on collision near old packing shed at Eagle. Motor man W. Cox was killed.
government employees; representatives; government; group portraits
Idaho Territorial Legislature. 6th Session. Counter-clockwise from top left: 1. John B. Pierce, Owyhee Idaho(state)2. W. B. Yantis, Shoshone Idaho(state)3. W. A. Yates, Ada, Speaker Idaho(state)4. J. G. Hughes, Boise Idaho(state)5. Phelps Everett,...
World War, 1939-1945--European Theater--Personal narratives.
In his December 2001 interview with Kelli Pierce, Jessica Kugler, and Stephanie McGregor, Harry LeMoyne offers his memories of World War II. LeMoyne served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1941 to 1945, training the United States and serving in the...
Main Street, looking east from Ninth. As seen in photo, beginning from far left, WM. Bayhouse, shoemaker, 836 Main; W.E. Pierce & Co, 829 Main (Davis Block); W.E. Pierce & Co. 820 Main, also Gray & Steward, Attorneys, and Boise City Abstract Co.;...
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...
