The Caswell brothers in their cabin. The Caswell brothers discovered gold at Thunder Mountain in Valley County. The discovery of gold at Thunder Mountain initiated a massive rush to the area in the late 1890's. Left to right: Lew, Ben, Dan based...
Miners outside the mill buildings at the Check Mate Mine near Pearl, Idaho circa 1903. Left to right: 1-5 unknown; 6 Rush Van Horton; 7 Fred Turner; 8-11 unknown; 12 Charlie Charlton; 13 Jim Roarabou
Financial records (1868-1902), of the Cuddy Flour Mill and Mercantile store established in 1868 by Cuddy and Edwin Tyne at Rush Creek, Idaho, and at Salubria, Idaho, in 1874. Also included is correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings and...
Day, John, d. 1820?. --Frontier and pioneer life-West (U.S.) --Massacres-Idaho-Birch Creek. --Rodeos-Idaho-History. --West (U.S.)-History. --Alaska-Gold discoveries-History.
Scrapbooks, correspondence, and photographs relating to Harrington's travels and interest in frontier history. Subjects include the Alaska gold rush of the 1898; the Birch Creek massacre in Idaho in 1877; John Day (1741-1820), trapper for the...
This defile is named for a series of skirmishes between Indians and Emigrants on the Oregon Trail, August 10, 1862. Nine whites were killed, and six more were wounded. As the traveler speeds through this opening in the rocks, he seldom thinks of...
Personal letter concerning experiences during the Thunder Mountain, Idaho, gold rush. Describes a prospecting trip that began in Meadows, Idaho and the ways that the trail was outfitted with gear and essentials. Describes the types of food and the...
"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...
Founded late in the fall before the big rush to Thunder Mountain in the beginning of 1902, Roosevelt soon became the leading camp in the new mining district. Thousands of men, having heard that Thunder Mountain was destined to be the biggest gold...
Booklet describing the history of the Thunder Mountain gold rush in Valley County in central Idaho around 1900. The booklet contains numerous historic photographs.
