Frontier and pioneer life

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

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...

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

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

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

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Large collection of 296 photographs from and of Earl Willson. Images include homes and ranches around Idaho, agricultural scenes, and mines.

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

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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.

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...

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Accompanied by a newspaper clipping describing Goodhart's life.

Content Description Portraits of Robert and Rosa Newman Grostein, and Aaron Kuhn and Leah Grostein Kuhn, Jewish families from Lewiston, Idaho. The portrait of Aaron and Leah Grostein Kuhn was taken in 1884 on their wedding day. According to the Lewiston Teller of May 15, 1884, Leah Grostein Kuhn was the first Jewish woman to have been born and married in Idaho Territory. Aaron Kuhn was president of the Traders National Bank, the Spoken and Eastern Trust Company, the Davenport National Bank, and the Bonner...

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

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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.

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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.

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Typed transcriptions of personal letters written by a man, identified only as Harry, to his mother in Michigan relating his experiences as an early settler of the Henry's Lake area in Fremont County, Idaho.

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Two small notebooks. The first, "A Journal From the River Platt to California Keep by James Oliverson," covers one month of a wagon trip, but gives no year. The second notebook, "Diary of James Oliverson," covers the period 1880-1882. Collection includes the originals, transcripts, and photocopies.

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Autobiography of James Pendleton Lightfoot

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History of the John Wood family of Pioneer, Idaho County, Idaho, after ca. 1850.

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Account of an 1889 journey of the Lyon family from Missouri to Oregon, and back to Idaho.

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A Story of William Munday, Jake Grossclose and Tom Hailey, Idaho pioneers, having been killed by Native Americans in Long Valley, near Cascade.