Phenomenology Research Addendum:

What was life like in the early days in valley

County?

A Photo Essay

Phenomenology ResearchEarly Days in valley County

Idaho Pioneer WomenGraduated in 1927, Cascade High School

47 years in education

Eleanor Morgan Manning

Cascade High School - 1937

Photo themes

Van WyckCrawford CascadeThunder CityCabarton

I. Settlements & Transportation:

Photo Themes

Settlements & Transportation Homesteads and Agriculture Indigenous People Timber Mining Recreation

Long Valley Settlements

By early 1890’s several towns developed in the southern Long Valley

Among the first was Crawford Thunder City Van Wyck Arling Roseberry

Southern Long Valley Settlements

Each was a center of local commerce, a source of community pride, and each provided a network of social and familial relationships.

A number of local mills supplied lumber for the growing communities.

Settlements

Outside these small communities, schools would double as community centers and the rise of the Grange afforded rural families with social connections.

Land, water and timber from the wilderness provided the raw material for these rural communities.

Settlements - Van WyckEstablished in 1884 by Levi Kimball Family--Underwater by 1948

Settlements - Crawford

Crawford - on the Warm Lake Road

Existed until 1914 when it was all moved to Cascade because of the railroad.

Thunder City: 1895

Cabarton - Logging Settlement: 1915

Cabarton - Logging Settlement

Al’s Pool Hall - Where kids could get ice cream!

Cabarton - Logging Settlement

Looking North on the pool hall, shop, homes, school…

Cabarton: 1920

SettlementsCascade - 1916

Settlements - Cascade

Cascade -1917

Settlements Cascade - 1918

SettlementsCascade - 1936

SettlementsCascade - Early 1940’s

Settlements: 1920Cascade - Banking

Settlements - Cascade

Cascade Butcher Shop Sollie & Frank Callender

Glenn Morris - Cascade Auto

Settlements Cascade - 4th of July Parade 1925

Settlements Cascade - 4th of July Parade 1930

Settlements Cascade - 4th of July Parade 1928

Cascade - 4th of July Parade 1928

Cascade - 4th of July Parade

SettlementsCascade Wins County Seat!

First Long Valley County Council Members - 1917

SettlementsCascade - Before the Move to Cabarton

Boise Payette - 1914

Settlements and Transportation 1900

No Bridge! Stage Coach Fording the River

Transportation - Early Route to Southern Long Valley

Prior to 1905 (No Google Maps) travel by wagon:• East along the Payette River• North through Sweet and Ola• Up through High Valley • Cross the Payette River at Smith’s Ferry• Over the hill to Round Valley or further north to

Long Valley on the east side of the river

Transportation - 1914 Railroad Route

to Southern Long Valley

As the Pacific and Idaho Northern tracks worked their way up the Payette River Canyon in 1913 and 1914, businesses in Thunder City, Crawford, VanWyck and Roseberry moved to the new towns of Cascade and Donnelly which were located on the rail line.

Transportation - Mail

Mail delivered to central distribution points like Cascade had be delivered by dogsled in the winter to outlying mining and timber camps.

Ultimately bush-flying services would carry the mail and provide delivery services to the backcountry.

Transportation Smith’s Ferry

Southern Long Valley Homesteading & Agriculture

Homesteadingand Agriculture

K Scott - cutting firewood in Long Valley

Homesteading 1920’s

Getting Logs for Firewood - F.M. Kerby Ranch

Lafe Cantrall Family Round Valley Homestead 1890

HomesteadingLafe Cantrall Family

HomesteadingCallender Family 1915

HomesteadingDunn Brothers - A Sad Story

Homesteading 1899

Pioneer Women - Gertrude Coski Scott

Homesteading 1899Pioneer Women

Homesteading - Pioneer Women

Marion Morgan Kerby

Pioneer Teacher & School Board Member

1922

Homesteading - Pioneer Women

Fiona Nasi – Donnelly 1931

Homesteading - Siblings

Kerby Homestead1930

Kerby Homestead - Haying

When There Was a Need - Neighbors Helped Each Other

Haying with Horses

K. Scott Homestead

Homesteading

Putting up Hay in Round Valley!

John Hasbrouck - Haying

Combines

“Only one person would own a combine, and they would go to the different farms to cut the grain. When they came to your place, you were to feed the crew.”

~Marilyn Whitson

Sheep Ranching Aikman Ranch in Round Valley - 1897

AlphaGrange

Charter Members 1935

Alpha Grange Float

Homesteading - Schools

Round Valley School - Built in the late 1800’s

Homesteading - Schools

Round Valley School – 1910

Mary D. Kerby

Teacher

Homesteading - Schools

Alpha Grade School 1936-37

Homesteading Sunday Schools

Alpha Sunday School Class Merry-Go-Round

HomesteadingAlpha Cemetery

Homesteading - Cemeteries

Transportation Smith’s Ferry Hotel 1910

Transportation Callender Stage Coach

Transportation 1915 Laying Track - Outside Cascade

Settlements Payette River Before Cascade Dam

Blasting for the Dam Cascade 1945-46

SettlementsCascade Dam Construction

Looking upstream

1947

Dam Construction Completed in 1948

Indigenous People Mid 1800’s

Indigenous People

Centuries before Lewis and Clark crossed northern Idaho, what we now know as Long Valley was once the summer home of several tribal groups. Long Valley was a point of overlap for the traditional territories of the Nez Perce to the north, the Shoshone to the southeast and the Paiute to the southwest.

Indigenous People

Indigenous People

Indigenous People

Wedding Gifts

Indigenous People

Women Riding

Timber - Hauling Logs South

timber Cruising Timber - High Valley 1927

timberHallack & Howard at Beaver Creek - 1930

timber

H & H Log Chute - 1930

timber

H & H Log Chute

Beaver Creek 1930

timber

Timber - Early Logging Trucks

Round Valley 1922

timber

Timber - Hauling Logs

Estill Trucks Hauling through Cascade

timberTaking a Break!

timber

Skidding to a Landing

Timber Horse Skidding Teams

Timber - Cats Skidding

Timber - Loading Logs

Timber - Loading Logs

Long Valley Mining

West Mountain Mine

Owned by Vic Ax

1910

Mining

Mining

Thunder Mountain

Sluice Box1918

Horse Team hauling mining Equipment 1915

Mining – Stibnite 1940’s

Recreation - 1923

Recreation Dog Sled Racing 1920’s

McCall to Cascade

DonnellyPit Stop!

Wow! Look at ‘em Go!

Recreation: First Ski Meets

At Cascade - Probably at Crown Point 1930’s

recreation

Recreation –BaseballEarly 1900’s

Van Wyck

Recreation -Baseball

Recreation - BaseballRoseberry Team

RecreationFishing on Gold Fork 1930’s

RecreationVan Wyck Rodeo 1918

Recreation - Cascade

Goodfellows Club - 1938

Thunder Mt. Recreation

Miners Playing A Friendly Game of Tug-of-War 1895

Photo Slide CreditsPowerPoint by Rosemary Hoff

For ED 574 Qualitative Research Project

December 15, 2013

Photographs used by permission from the following Valley County pioneer women: Marilyn Kerby Callendar Whitson Frances Kerby Coski Eileen Scott Evans Eleanor Morgan Manning Donna Morgan Peterson