Before there were roads or rails, goods were shipped by boat or barge and then on by horse or mule. As the nation’s transportation network developed, only the most inaccessible places continued their dependence on pack trains for supplies. In many of Idaho’s remote places, the pack train era lasted...
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A Lonely Cabin
A century ago, in the days before corporate entertainment found its mass market and spread from the cities to rural areas, people made their own fun. They took walks, went to the park or to the river, played cards, put on home-grown entertainments, had picnics, and visited their friends and...
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Henry David Thoreau Manuscript Leaf
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau
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Summer Session - 1928
In the spring of 1928 the Northern Pacific Railway Company, as part of its publication of brochures and pamphlets encouraging travel to the Pacific Northwest, prepared a slim page-sized illustrated piece inviting the reader to consider attending summer school at the University of Idaho. One piece of paper folded to...
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Way Out in Idaho
Idaho music score
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M. Belle Sweet Establishes Special Collections
Because organizations (like other organisms) grow and change, it is not always possible to mark their precise point of beginning. Appropriately, however, the library’s Department of Special Collections and Archives holds just such a document recording its early beginnings.
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Civilian Conservation Corps at 70
Over eighty years ago, the Civilian Conservation Corps was established (as the Emergency Conservation Work agency, its official name until 1937). Ten days after the legislation was introduced in Congress, as part of President Roosevelt’s depression-era recovery schemes, the Secretary of Agriculture sent out telegrams to governors of each affected...
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Preparing for Fire Spotting
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Clyde Pangborn and Nick Mamer (pilots) [1]
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Spurious Lewis and Clark editions
The Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Bibliography and Essays
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Idaho Poet; Author, Editor, and Printer
200 poems
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