Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database

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- Tacoman heads state historical society
- 1936
- Tacoman heads state historical society. - C.L. Babcock, Tacoma, was elected president of the Washington State Historical society at the annual meeting held here today.
- State history. State officials. Governors. Martin, Clarence D. 1936-02-02
- Indians used to use waters of lake for curing disease and named it Medical Lake
- 1920
- Indians used to use waters of lake for curing disease and named it Medical Lake. - Historical quarterly tells origin of titles around Spokane. - That the waters of Medical lake were believed by the Indians to be a cure for rheumatism led, in all...
- State history. Native Americans. Historical. 1920-07-19
- Marks old Indian trail
- 1929
- Marks old Indian trail. - This massive granite monument, erected on the Sunset highway two and one-half miles west of Deep Creek, marking the spot where the Indian trail, which later became the Colville-Walla Walla road, crosses the east and west...
- State history. Native Americans. Memorials. 1929-06-11
- Historical review Bunker Hill Mine
- 1935
- Historical review Bunker Hill Mine.
  Notwithstanding there was yet considerable life the gold camps of the Pritchard district, which took in Murray, Eagle, Myrtle, Trial, Delta and Littlefield, the year 1885 saw the feverish activity of the Coeur...
- Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1935-08-22
- Knife that scalped yellow hand found
- 1937
- Knife that scalped yellow hand found. - Ray A Chinn of Mansfield, Mo., offered today to send the Nebraska Historical society the knife with which "Buffalo Bill" Cody slew and scalped Yellow Hand, the Cheyenne chief, in 1876.
- State history. Native Americans. Historical. 1937-01-03
- Indians to be feature of Spokane's historical pageant
- 1930
- Indians to be feature of Spokane's historical pageant. - A feature of the historical pageant Friday of next week will be the section devoted to Indians and their various paraphernalia. Here are four members of the Four Feathers club of Spokane...
- State history. Native Americans. Celebrations, picnics & pow wows. 1930-08-26
- Indian attacks are exaggerated
- 1926
- Indian attacks are exaggerated. - Research into forty-niners' history shows weather was worst enemy. - Maps six old trails. - Colorado professor says 3000 wagons abandoned by old-time gold seekers. - Historical fiction of the wild west appears to...
- State history. Native Americans. Historical. 1926-01-31
- Indian menace letter theme
- 1929
- Indian menace letter theme. - Thirty letters of historical significance, dealing with the fear that existed in the Bitter Root valley of western Montana previous to the Nez Perce war, are a striking feature of the current issue of The Frontier, a...
- State history. Native Americans. Historical. 1929-10-23
- Tinkling bells guard grave
- 1937
- Tinkling bells guard grave / by M. E. Hatcher
  Those interested in historical lore will see at Nespelem a pretty little village, typically western, nestling on the banks of the Nespelem river in Okanogan county--a prosperous little city where the...
- State history. Native Americans. Historical. 1937-02-21
- Chief's relics enter museum
- 1937
- Chief's relics enter museum. - The nucleus of a collection of relics and mementoes of Chief Joseph, Nez Perce Indian warrior, recently presented to the Eastern Washington Historical society by Judge Henry Hunter of New York, was dedicated last...
- State history. Native Americans. Relics & antiques. 1937-10-21
- Drove first ox drawn wagon over Cascades
  Daniel Stewert knew Whitmans and joined Oregon volunteers sent out to avenge massacre -- was in gold ruches to California, central Idaho and Boise.
- 1936
- Drove first ox drawn wagon over Cascades
  Daniel Stewert knew Whitmans and joined Oregon volunteers sent out to avenge massacre -- was in gold rushes to California, central Idaho and Boise.
  One of the most interesting historical manuscripts...
- State history. State of Washington Pioneers. S. 1936-09-06
- Decide on site of gold finding
- 1921
- Decide on site of gold finding - A controversy which has survived two generations over the site of the mining claim in Last Chance gulch, later the location of Helena, where gold was discovered July 14, 1864, has been settled through the...
- Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1921-05-23
- Historical review of Bunker Hill mine
- 1935
- Historical review of Bunker Hill mine.
  Idaho, like most of the other western states, began its mining history with the advent of the placer miner. Among the first gold discoveries in what now comprises the state of Idaho was that made by members...
- Northwest history. Mining. Feature articles. 1935-08-22
- Present-day redskins as much in dark as whites on weird characters
- 1919
- Present-day redskins as much in dark as whites on weird characters. - Crude markings are found in several places in Spokane territory. - The aggressive advertisers of Spokane were not the first to paint rocks in the Inland Empire, according to...
- State history. Native Americans. Archaeology. 1919-05-21. p. 1.
- Present-day redskins as much in dark as whites on weird characters
- 1919
- Present-day redskins as much in dark as whites on weird characters. - Crude markings are found in several places in Spokane territory. - The aggressive advertisers of Spokane were not the first to paint rocks in the Inland Empire, according to...
- State history. Native Americans. Archaeology. 1919-05-21. p. 2.
- Indians present historical pageant
- 1935
- Indians present historical pageant. - Coeur d'Alene Indians give play telling of coming of Jesuits. - Arrayed in ceremonial garb, 40 members of the Coeur d'Alene tribe presented their version of the coming of Jesuits and of the conversion to the...
- State history. Native Americans. Ceremonies. 1935-11-30
- Present-day redskins as much in dark as whites on weird characters
- 1919
- Present-day redskins as much in dark as whites on weird characters. - Crude markings are found in several places in Spokane territory. - The aggressive advertisers of Spokane were not the first to paint rocks in the Inland Empire, according to...
- State history. Native Americans. Archaeology. 1919-05-21
- Indian pictrographs found in Gorge
- 1936
- Indian pictrographs found in Gorge. - The above pictographs were found recently in Rock creek gorge and have been interpreted and reported by Rose Leibbrand, field worker for the historical records survey, a WPA writer's project. The pictographs...
- State history. Native Americans. Pictographs. 1936-10-25
- Original rated as valuable work of art
- 1935
- Original rated as valuable work of art. - Above is a picture of a Nez Perce Indian battle as handed down to posterity by the Indians. The original, listed by the Smithsonian Institute as a valuable work of American art, is owned by the Eastern...
- State history. Native Americans. Pictographs. 1935-08-23
- Knife that scalped yellow hand found
- 1937
- Knife that scalped yellow hand found. - Ray A. Chinn of Mansfield, Mo., offered today to sent the Nebraska Historical society the knife with which "Buffalo Bill" Cody slew and scalped Yellow Hand, the Cheyenne chief, in 1876.
- State history. Native Americans. Relics & antiques. 1937-01-03