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A Pioneer Remembered Boise As It Was In 1864

Posted on November 12, 2012 by adminOctober 31, 2012

The first houses were built mostly of adobe, logs or boards, the doors of which opened on the street with the proverbial latch string hanging down. Dry goods boxes were at a premium, as most of the furniture in the … Continue reading →

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Boise’s First Newspaper Promoted the Republican Party

Posted on October 15, 2012 by adminSeptember 27, 2012

Isolated as Boise City was in the 1860s, it still was influenced by the passions of the Civil War. Miners at lonely diggings would pay several dollars in gold dust for a scrap of newspaper, only a quarter of a … Continue reading →

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A Pioneer’s Arrival in Boise (September 1864)

Posted on September 15, 2012 by adminSeptember 1, 2012

The first part of Idaho we saw, like that we had been passing ever since [our wagon train had left] the Rockies, was  barren and monotonous. Sage brush, alkali dust, all sorts of creeping things and millions of crickets. These … Continue reading →

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“Beer Springs” Gave Mountain Men a Laugh

Posted on August 12, 2012 by adminJuly 31, 2012

This occurred at Soda Springs, Idaho in the early 1830s. In the course of the day [Captain Bonneville] arrived at the plain of white clay, already mentioned, surrounded by the mineral springs, called Beer Springs, by the trappers. Here the … Continue reading →

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Boise Valley: A Danger Spot on the Oregon Trail

Posted on August 10, 2012 by adminJuly 31, 2012

When a squad of young braves attacked and massacred pioneers with the Alexander Ward wagon train near Middleton in August 1854, an era of danger was introduced in the Boise Valley, sometimes called “peaceful valley” by the Indians. The valley … Continue reading →

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Idaho’s Snake River Follows a Path Formed by Fire

Posted on July 10, 2012 by adminJuly 1, 2012

Our Boise Valley provides good examples of the lessons from Earth Sciences class: a river valley formed by erosion caused by the river itself and soil made from eroded rock. But to the east, the Snake River plain reveals a … Continue reading →

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Traveling Idaho’s Salmon River the Old Fashioned Way

Posted on June 12, 2012 by adminMay 30, 2012

The Wildest Boat Ride in America by Caroline Lockhart [In May 1911 Ms. Lockhart rode with a flotilla of three flatboats that was hauling mining equipment on the Salmon River. This is an excerpt of an article published in the … Continue reading →

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Flatboat Pilots Overcame Idaho’s Turbulent Salmon River

Posted on June 5, 2012 by adminMay 30, 2012

Though Idaho’s Salmon River is now a playground for vacationers, in earlier times it had a fearsome reputation. Lewis and Clark tried to travel down it but gave up and hiked overland instead. By the 1890s several men had sufficient … Continue reading →

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Sons of Idaho Pioneers Spent Little Time in School

Posted on April 5, 2012 by adminMarch 24, 2012

The “three Rs,” reading, writing and arithmetic, still occupy a central role in today’s discussions of what schools should do. A superintendent’s report from the Idaho frontier of the 1870s gives a small glimpse of what education devoted to the … Continue reading →

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Sculpting America’s Heroes

Posted on March 22, 2012 by adminMarch 1, 2012

A native Idahoan was responsible for one of America’s treasures: the U. S. presidents carved on Mount Rushmore. John Gutzon Borglum was born in a cabin near Bear Lake in 1867. His parents were Mormons from Denmark who were seeking … Continue reading →

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