Gem County History Index
Places: Emmett Sweet Montour Ola Gross Letha Pearl & Westview Mining District
History
Langley's "Pacific Coast Business Directory 1876-78", listing Emmettsville and Falk's Store businesses
Early Settlers Profiled in "The Village That Grew" by Ruth B. Lyon, 1979
The Mail is Robbed/Esmond Stage Stop, 1885 Emmett-Placerville Road (present-day county line)
Pearl 1902, Reconstructed Map
Pearl Documents, 1896-1902
"Emmett's Lumber Industry in Past," Emmett Index, June 15, 1916, "Boise Payette Co.'s Mill to be Built in Emmett" issue
Lumber Industry and Logging, from "All Along The River"
"The Payette River is
beautiful but deadly" by Arthur Hart
Polk's 1914 Business Directory, includes Emmett, Hanna, Letha, Montour, Ola, Pearl and Sweet and list of fruit growers
Dec. 1914, Emmett's First Women Jury
First Gem County Officials, 1915
School Districts, map and locations
History of Butte School, Written by Meree Fowler (Schneider), 2 Oct 1919 for a school paper
Hawley's History of Gem County and Emmett, 1920
Award-winning 1930 Historical Essay, by high school student, Edith Whipple
Women Homesteaders
Historical Register & Century Farms
Historic Post Offices & Postmasters
Newspaper Articles
Reading and References
Off-site Links
Mills' "All Along the River" now on Internet Archives
Payette River National Scenic Byway Plan
Payette River Log Drives,"
"River Tales of Idaho" by Darcy Williamson, Caxton Printers, Caldwell, Idaho, 1997 (google books)
History at Boise National Forest
Boise County Sentinel at Salmon Public Library, 1912 & 1916, published at Sweet; plus other publications
1904 Annual report of the mining industry of Idaho, by
Robert Bell, Inspector of Mines, at google books (includes Pearl mining district)
History and Culture, Boise National Forest
Gem County Sheriffs (US genweb archives)
Pickett's Corral Idaho State Historical Society Reference Series, No. 253
Idaho State Historical Society Reference Series Index for more Idaho history
History news articles at the Messenger-Index
History Articles at the Idaho Statesman
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