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Idaho Yesterdays - Article Index

Idaho Yesterdays - Volume 7

Date Volume Issue Author Title Description
1963 7 1   Editor's Page Governor Robert E. Smylie's centennial message.
1963 7 1 C. Aubrey Angelo Impressions of the Boise Basin in 1863 A correspondent for a leading California newspaper tells of the gold rush at the time Idaho became a territory.
1963 7 1   Territorial Governors of Idaho Brief biographical sketches of Idaho's early chief executives.
1963 7 1 Merrill D. Beal Rustlers and Robbers: Idaho Cattle Thieves  in Territorial Days Cattle rustling began as an honorable occupation for western ranch hands...but the bad men took over.
1963 7 1   Footnotes to History The "Irruption" of Caleb Lyon into Jefferson county politics.
1963 7 1   Those Were the Days ...when Governor Wallace organized Idaho Territory in Lewiston.
1963 7 1 Dallas E. Livingston Little The Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining development in North Idaho, 1885-1900.
1963 7 1   The Idaho Centennial How Idaho was created in 1863.
1963 7 1   Pioneer Portraits J. H. Scranton, 1822-1865
1963 7 1   Book Reviews  
1963 7 2 Eugene B. Chaffee Boise: The Founding of a City The City of Boise commenced to grow almost immediately after the army established a fort in Boise valley a century ago.
1963 7 2 David H. Grover Diamondfield Jack: A Range War in Court Powerful sheep and cattle interests collided in one of the strangest legal dramas of western America - the Diamondfield Jack case which grew out of a rangeland shooting in 1896.
1963 7 2   Book Reviews  
1963 7 2   Those Were the Days ...when Idaho artists recorded the local scene they knew.
1963 7 2 Eugene H. Walker The Geologic History of the Snake River Country of Idaho Man's drama has been going on for only a few thousand years in the Snake country - but the stage upon which it played is many millions of years old.
1963 7 3 Allen C. and Eleanor D. Morrill The Measuring Woman and the Cook Alice Fletcher spent several seasons in North Idaho arranging for the opening of the Nez Perce Reservation, and the extensive letters of her companion, Jane Gay, provided an entertaining record of Alice Fletcher's important work among the Indians.
1963 7 3   The Bear Lake Centennial: Pictures Old and New With the founding of Paris a century ago, settlement of the Bear Lake valley began. These pictures show some of the changes which have come there in the past hundred years.
1963 7 3 Barbara Bowditch Pioneer Portraits Charles C. Rich
1963 7 3   Footnotes to History Bear Lake County
1963 7 3 Jack Dozier 1885: A Nez Perce Homecoming Eight years went by after the Nez Perce War before most of the captives were returned to their homeland in the Pacific Northwest.
1963 7 3   Book Reviews  
1963 7 3   They Arrested the Wrong Man ...and we printed his picture. A correction concerning a picture thought to have been one of Diamondfield Jack Davis.
1963-1964 7 4 Henry L. Day Mining Highlights of the Coeur d'Alene District The story of Idaho's major mining region.
1963-1964 7 4   Book Reviews  
1963-1964 7 4 James H. Hawley Steve Adams' Confession and the State's Case Against Bill Haywood Steve Adams retracted his confession before the Haywood trial, and copies of that important document of Idaho labor history have been hard to find. J. H. Hawley's 1906 summary of Adams' confession includes its significant points.
1963-1964 7 4   Footnotes to History Francis Haines, Jr., tells how the "best thick gingerbread with sweetmeats" was part of the Columbia river fur trade.
1963-1964 7 4   Editor's Page