(good parade shot on Capitol Blvd) Parade banner announcing the opening game for the Boise Pilots vs Lewiston Indians. Pioneer League baseball. Great shot of the Capitol in the background.
Reception at the Capitol for the opening of the Traveling Library in June 1899. The photograph features the Educational Committee of the Columbian Club, who were the founders of the Traveling Library.
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...
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...