Railroads-Idaho-History.
Subject
Subject Source: Source Not Specified
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Donald B. Robertson papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0563
Summary
Collection containes notes, maps, timetables, and subject files relating to railroads in Idaho, and to Robertson's book, "Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History: the Mountain States."
Dates:
1987 - 1991
Manuscript on the effects of the railroad on the Wood River Valley and Idaho
Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1480
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.