Manuscript on the effects of the railroad on the Wood River Valley and Idaho

Collection

Identifier: MS 2/1480

Staff Only

Summary

This collection contains a typewritten manuscript, "1883-1884: Rail Service Arrives and Transforms Idaho and the Wood River Valley: Branch Roads are Built; the Railroad Promotes Settlement in Idaho," that is an excerpt from a paper entitled "Life in a Small Mountain Town, Idaho Pioneers-Matthew and Isabelle Campbell McFall, Early Settlers of Bellevue (1881) and Shoshone (1893)."

Dates

Event: 1883-1884.

General Note

John W. Lundin, III and Stephen J. Lundin are the great grandsons of the McFalls through their father, John W. Lundin, Jr., who was born and raised in Shoshone, Idaho.