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Owyhee County (Idaho)-History.

 Subject
Subject Source: Source Not Specified

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Farm and ranch history collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0445
Summary

Reminiscences of farm and ranch life in early Idaho, collected by the Idaho Bicentennial Commission as a local documenation program. Includes descriptions of life in Valley, Owyhee, Power, Lemhi, Bonneville, Bonner, Gem, Elmore and Nez Perce counties and the endeavers of Lorenzo Dow Bentzer, Nels Anderson Just, Sylvester Scott, Jesse Paul, Charles McIntyre, Paul Clagstone, Harm Groefsema, Willis Sampson and Liberty Independence Hunt.

Dates: 1973 - 1979

John Rogers McBride reminiscences : typescript

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0984
Summary

A description of Idaho's justice system, the bar of Idaho, trials, the Owyhee war, and the Iron Clad Oath; sketches of John S. Gray, Hill Beachy, E. D. Holbrook and La Fayette Cartee; and a description of McBride's trip west in 1846.

Dates: [19--]

Owyhee County school examinations

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0547
Summary

Standard graduation examination for elementary schools given to children in Owyhee County schools. Examinations are from nine Owyhee County communities, predominately Homedale.

Dates: 1934