Located on Salmon River 12 miles from Dixie, Idaho. Operated by row boats on either side. It was first operated by a man name Robinson, later by Warren Cook. Ferry could only carry 3 or 4 horses per trip.
Cars Number 80 and Number 90. Built by G.C. Kuhlman Company in 1911 at their Collinwood, Ohio Plant. Order Number 493 for two double truck closed city cars to seat forty to forty-four passengers each. Cars were built with Brill 27G trucks with 33"...
Miners in the hoist room at a mine (probably the Checkmate) in the Pearl Mining District, Gem County, ID, Lower left man identified as L.S. Gerlough, later a Rhodes Scholar. Identified by T.D. Gerlough (now of San Francisco) of Squibb & County,...
Photo shows the Pittsburg, Confederate Star, and other properties in the Rocky Bar Mining District in Elmore County prior to 1884. The Elmore Mine mill was later built in this area. Note the man in the foreground.
Two couples, and their dogs, in front of a wooden cabin in the Thunder Mountain region. Woman on right is Lenny Charters who later moved to Atlanta and lived for many years.
Newspapers from the Roosevelt and Thunder Mountain area tells interesting stories, and describes area businesses that were later destroyed by the mudslide and flood. First page describes "The Golden Goal" of a miner which was to proceed at all...
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...
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...
Shoup, George Laird, 1836-1904. --General stores-Idaho-Salmon-History-Sources. --Indians of North America-Wars-1862-1865. --Massacres-Idaho-Birch Creek. --Frontier and pioneer life-Idaho. --Idaho-Politics and government-History-Sources.
A miscellaneous assortment of material from Shoup's varied career as Idaho territorial legislator, territorial and later state governor, and U.S. senator. Included is a copy of a diary kept during Shoup's military campaigns in Colorado, New Mexico...
World War, 1939-1945-Prisoners and prisons-Personal narratives, American.
Diary (1941-1945), written as a prisoner of war; newsletters, bulletins, form letters, and newspaper clippings concerning World War II in the Pacific and prisoners of war.
Fisher, Stanton G., 1840-1915 , Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis), 1830-1909. Nez Percé Indians-History. Bannock Indians-History. Shoshoni Indians-History. Fort Hall Indian Reservation (Idaho)-History-Sources. Nez Percé Indian Reservation...
Correspondence (1889-1906); diaries (1875, 1877); autobiography (1888); scrapbook and newspaper clippings (1892-1915), photographs; journals; notebooks; and manuscript, Trail of a Gold Seeker, 1863.
later, O. B. 1848-1919. --Defoe, Jules. --Cuddy, John, 1834-1899. --Christ Chapel (Idaho) --Basque Americans-Idaho. --Henry's Fort (Idaho) --Fort Boise (Idaho) --Boise (Idaho)-History. --Idaho-Centennial celebrations, etc.
Minutes, financial and membership records, scrapbooks, and subject files. Subjects include: Basques, Idaho's 50th Anniversary, John Cuddy, Oliver B. Slater, Jules Defoe, Fort Boise, Henry's Fort, and Christ Chapel.
Funsten, James Bowen, 1856-1918. --St. Luke's Hospital (Boise, Idaho) --Saint Margaret's Hall (Boise, Idaho) --Episcopal Church-Idaho-History-Sources. --Episcopal Church-Wyoming-History-Sources.
Diaries (17 vols., 1899-1918), and two address and account books maintained by Bishop Funsten while Episcopal Bishop of western Wyoming and southern Idaho, and later of Wyoming and Idaho.
General correspondence; private files of executive officers; payroll account books; and other financial records of a company organized under the Carey Act in 1903, first to build canals and laterals and act as a land office and later to maintain...
Ross Charles Benjamin. --Cruikshank Sheep Company. --Mountain Home Sheep Company. --Sheep industry-Idaho-Mountain Home-History-Sources. --Idaho-Politics and government-History-Sources.
Primarily political, memorial, and commencement speeches of a Boise, Idaho, attorney and chairman of the Idaho Code Commission. Also includes notes, photographs, and memorabilia; newspaper clippings concerning C. Ben Ross; and legal papers relating...
