Massacres-Idaho-Birch Creek.
Subject
Subject Source: Source Not Specified
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
Joel A. Harrington papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0149
Summary
Scrapbooks, correspondence, and photographs relating to Harrington's travels and interest in frontier history. Subjects include the Alaska gold rush of the 1898; the Birch Creek massacre in Idaho in 1877; John Day (1741-1820), trapper for the Pacific Fur Company; and photographs of Western rodeos, ca. 1900.
Dates:
1896 - 1958
Massacre sites in Idaho collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0338
Summary
General information about Indian massacre sites; letters regarding the location and events of a massacre in Southern Idaho, and a short history of the Birch Creek Massacre by Alex Cruikshank.
Dates:
1925 - 1957