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.
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.
"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...
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,...
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...
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.
