Idaho History
IDAHO HISTORY: Boise chamber dates to 1883
Boise’s Metro Chamber of Commerce has had several names over the years, but it began as a Board of Trade.
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Idaho History: The Chautauqua enlightened and entertained Idahoans
When a group of Boise women met in the home of Mrs. Samuel H. Hays in October 1893 for the first meeting of the Bonne Heure Chautauqua Circle, they were following in the footsteps of a movement started in Chautauqua, N.Y., on the shores of Lake Chautauqua in the summer of 1874.
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IDAHO HISTORY
Idaho history is full of men with colorful nicknames
Every tenderfoot who came west to seek his fortune soon learned that you never asked a fellow worker his real name, or even where he came from. Many men on the frontier had shady pasts. They were fugitives from the law or from domestic situations they couldn’t handle, including debts they...
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IDAHO HISTORY
Idaho History: Boise used to battle water company yearly
As winter approached each year, sources of water for fighting fires were a major concern. The Idaho Statesman editorialized on Nov. 30, 1886, that Boise City badly needed a piped water system.
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IDAHO HISTORY
Idaho History: Maintaining a water supply for firefighting was difficult in 1880s
Even after little Boise City got its first fire engine in July 1879, finding a reliable source of water for fighting fire proved to be a constant problem. The city had no municipal water system of its own and the privately owned and operated water companies were in business to make a profit. The...
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Idaho History: Lombardy poplar trees once lined Boise’s city streets
Boise has called itself “The City of Trees” for well more than a century, but it took a lot of hard work and civic pride before the little town that had been laid out in the sagebrush in 1863 lived up to the name.
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IDAHO HISTORY
Idaho History: State histories downplayed violence in pioneer times
Some of our most respected pioneers wrote about crime in early Idaho, but with quite different treatments of the subject.
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IDAHO HISTORY
Idaho History: Oxen helped open the West and delivered the goods
Most of the thousands of covered wagons that rolled across Idaho on the Oregon Trail in the 1840s, ’50s and ’60s were pulled by yokes of oxen, and it was oxen that pulled the heaviest loads into Idaho’s mountain mining camps after gold was discovered there in the 1860s.
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Idaho History: Saloons in Boise had colorful names
Before 1916, when Idahoans voted to amend the state constitution to make the manufacture, sale or possession of alcoholic beverages illegal, Boise alone had more than 50 saloons. They had a wide variety of names, none of them still in use today. After 1919, when Prohibition became the law of the...
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IDAHO HISTORY
St. Patrick’s Day widely celebrated in early Idaho by Irish immigrants
Of the many Idahoans who celebrated St. Patrick’s Day yesterday, it is probable that only a small proportion of them were of Irish descent. On the Idaho frontier, however, where recent immigrants from Ireland made up a large part of the population, the day was widely celebrated, both with...
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Idaho History: Winfield C. Tatro delivered passengers, mail in all seasons
When Mr. and Mrs. Winfield C. Tatro celebrated their fifth, or “wooden,” wedding anniversary in October 1875, the Statesman reported the occasion in some detail. The popular young couple, Con and Lizzie, had recently moved into a newly remodeled house at Tenth and Main, where he had...
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