Blueprint. Inset: Map showing routes to Thunder Mountain. Scale [1:1,647,360]. "Thunder Mountain gold fields are reached only via Boise, Ketchum, Mackay, Red Rock or Weiser, all good outfitting points on the Oregon Short Line R.R."
"Compton I. White, Gen. Mgr., John Sharpe, (?)easer, Ivor Anderson; measuring new strike in the stope. 7' 10" as compared with engineer Rush J. White's estimate of 6 inches." Two miners stretching a measuring tape across the rock face as another...
Water wheel and water powered arrastra on Silver Creek near Pierce, Idaho. Arrastras were used to crush ore to liberate metals from the waste rock. Photo circa 1892.
In her interview conducted on July 23, 1981 by Kris Major, Dorothy McKenzie describes how she came to the Yankee Fork area in 1940. She first stayed in a campground, Flat Rock Campground, and later lived in a log cabin with the rest of the mining...
Excerpt from interview with Dorothy McKenzie conducted on July 23, 1981 by Kris Major, where Dorothy McKenzie describes how she came to the Yankee Fork area in 1940. She first stayed in a campground, Flat Rock Campground, and later lived in a log...
Correspondence, notes, and newspaper clippings on Indian petroglyphs; Erwin's article "Indian Rock Writings"; and list of Idaho snakes and brochure on snakes and frogs.
