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Ada B. Philips reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0532
Summary

Story of the overland journey of the Philips family from Kansas to Washington in 1883.

Dates: [19--?]

Adam Aulbach reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0231
Summary

Recollections of the years 1863-1870 describing the author's overland journey from Illinois to Bannock, Montana; experiences as a miner and storekeeper in Bannock and in Virginia City, Montana; as a cavalryman in Wyoming and Utah; and as a newspaperman in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dates: [19--].

Ardis M. Jamison, Foster family collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0713
Summary Collection contains two volumes. The first is a photocopy of an original journal kept by Susie Foster. The second volume includes a transcript of the journal, a history of the Foster family by Olive Foster Clark, and photocopies of family letters and photographs. Susie Foster's journal begins with an entry in 1886 in Texas and then records family life in California, 1891 to 1898. The family left California for Lewiston, Idaho in 1898 where they lived before filing a claim on...
Dates: 1886 - 1956

Autobiography of Glen C. Lionberger

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0567
Summary

Glen Lionberger's reminiscences of his life on the Northwestern frontier, from childhood at the turn of the century to 1967.

Dates: 1900 - 1967

Beatrice Fox [manuscript]

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1293
Summary

Manuscript of life in Challis, Idaho in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Dates: [195-].

Cloe Boyce Rogers typescript

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0378
Summary

Historical articles set in Oneida and Franklin counties, Idaho, including copies of "Jim Hayden's Mule," "Another Freight Outfit," "Oneida," "North of the Line," and "Wheels of Idaho, 1877." Also includes two black and white photos.

Dates: 1935-1942.

Dorothy Lamphear Berkman manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1409
Summary

Collection consists of one copy of a typescript, "Remembering Yesterday" by Dorothy Lamphear Berkman.

Dates: [no date]

Dottie C. Edwards papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0423
Summary

Typed drafts of articles for local newspapers in southwestern Idaho and eastern Oregon describing community life and characters in Fruitland, Cambridge, Emmett, and Payette, Idaho.

Dates: 1966 - 1967

Dottie Edwards collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0330
Summary

An interview with Hugh Kennedy, Robert Francis Kennedy, & Samuel James Kennedy, pioneers in southwestern Idaho & eastern Oregon in the 1880s.

Dates: [196-]

Elizabeth Walston Day autobiography

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0688

Emily McCorkle FitzGerald papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0479
Summary

Correspondence, predominately from Fitzgerald to her mother, written in Lapwai or Boise, Idaho, and other locations in the Western United States.

Dates: 1871 - 1878

Emma G. Tate papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0138
Summary

Collection includes correspondence (1884-1911) of John P. Tate, Tate's husband and founder of Tate Insurance Agency and philanthropist; Tate and Gekeler families genealogical information; miscellaneous bills, receipts, deeds, etc. Financial records relating to the Alaska Building.

Dates: 1861 - 1967

Foster Steele reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0277
Summary

A memoir of the Steele family homestead at Ruby, Idaho, 1888-1898; includes four photographs of buildings.

Dates: 1934.

Frank R. Fouch papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0067
Summary

Diary (Sept. 1887-June 1888), recording business and recreational activities of Fouch as store manager in Parma, Idaho; addresses commemorating Old Fort Boise monument (1927); correspondence concerning the early history of the Boise Valley.

Dates: 1887 - 1927

George Laird Shoup papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0085
Summary 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 and Texas (1862-1863); correspondence and receipts relating to his Salmon City, Idaho, store; a letter from James McTucker of Blackfoot recounting the Birch Creek Massacre; a letter from John A. Wright of the Lemhi Indian Agency regarding payments...
Dates: 1862 - 1901

George Walter Goodhart memoirs

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0115
Summary

Accompanied by a newspaper clipping describing Goodhart's life.

Dates: 1927

H. C. Roberts scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2.01/22
Summary

Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings regarding Idaho pioneers and western frontier history.

Dates: 1927 - 1941

H. P. Ashby [Script of "Owyhee Joe"]

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1160
Summary

Script of "Owyhee Joe" written by H.P. Ashby of the Martell Dramatic Arts School to present to the Sons and Daughters of the Idaho Pioneers.

Dates: 1934

Hamilton Scott reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0802
Summary

Typescript of the 1862 journey from Iowa to Oregon, taken from the diary of Scott. Includes an account of the Massacre Rocks Massacre; notes by Alvin Zaring, a traveler in the same wagon trail, and information on Ezra Zaring, his son.

Dates: 1950

Harry B. Kinport papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1058
Summary

Collection contains correspondence and newspaper clippings pertaining to Harry B. and Elizabeth Kinport.

Dates: 1894 - 1944

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