In her two interviews with Justin Olnes and Kali Larsen in July and September 2006, Dotty (Dorothea) Baxter discussed her time working as journal clerk for the Idaho House (1965-1970) and secretary of the Senate (1970-ca.1991). Baxter discussed the...
Forest rangers C.E. and U.E. Herrick packing lumber in to Ditch Creek Ranger Station for window casings, etc., through privately owned Yellow Pine and Douglas Fir
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...
Head of the navigation Coeur d'Alene River.The Northern Pacific steamer ""Georgia Oakes"" in dock at head of navigation on the Coeur d'Alene River near the location of the ""old mission."" The dock being constructed from the hull of the older...
In Octoberl of 1904, miner Rudolph "Bob" Wetter, was convicted of first degree murder in Idaho County, Idaho, and sentenced to hang. His sentence was soon commuted to life in prison through the efforts of many in the community where he lived. This...
Man in center, wearing vest, and white shirt, is John McNish. He was an Emmett pioneer of the 1880's. An Idaho Statesman article, dated February 3rd, 1957 states that "the picture was taken at the Gold Hill mine in Quartzburg in 1885. While these...
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...
In his interview conducted September 17, 2003 with James Besleme, Clint Whitney detailed his two-year employment as a laborer on the White Knob Mine Hill in Mackay, Idaho from 1929 through 1930. Whitney discussed working conditions, mine technology...
Excerpt from an interview with Clint Whitney conducted September 17, 2003 with James Besleme, where Clint Whitney detailed his two-year employment as a laborer on the White Knob Mine Hill in Mackay, Idaho from 1929 through 1930. Whitney discussed...
