This is an addendum to an ED 574 qualitative research paper providing visual background information about what life was like in Valley County during the early pioneer days through the 1940's. The primary paper is a phenomenology research report exploring what it was like to attend and/or teach in early pioneer one-room schools in Valley County.

1. Phenomenology Research Addendum:
What was life like in the early
days in valley County?
A Photo Essay

2. Phenomenology Research
Early Days in valley County

3. Idaho Pioneer Women
Graduated in 1927, Cascade High School
47 years in education
Eleanor Morgan Manning

4. Cascade High School - 1937

5. Photo themes
I. Settlements & Transportation:
Van Wyck
Crawford
Cascade
Thunder City
Cabarton

6. Photo Themes
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Settlements & Transportation
Homesteads and Agriculture
Indigenous People
Timber
Mining
Recreation

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Settlements - Van Wyck
Established in 1884 by Levi Kimball Family--Underwater by 1948

11. Settlements - Crawford
Crawford - on the Warm Lake Road
Existed until 1914 when it was all moved to Cascade
because of the railroad.

12. Thunder City: 1895

13. Cabarton - Logging
Settlement: 1915

14. Cabarton - Logging
Settlement
Al‟s Pool Hall - Where kids could get ice cream!

15. Cabarton - Logging
Settlement
Looking North on the pool hall, shop, homes, school…

16. Cabarton: 1920

17. Settlements
Cascade - 1916

18. Settlements - Cascade
Cascade -1917

19. Settlements
Cascade - 1918

20. Settlements
Cascade - 1936

21. Settlements
Cascade - Early 1940‟s

22. Settlements: 1920
Cascade - Banking

23. Settlements - Cascade
Cascade Butcher Shop
Sollie & Frank Callender
Glenn Morris - Cascade Auto

24. Settlements
Cascade - 4th of July Parade 1925

25. Settlements
Cascade - 4th of July Parade 1930

26. Settlements
Cascade - 4th of July Parade 1928

27. Cascade - 4th of July Parade 1928

28. Cascade - 4th of July Parade

29. Settlements
Cascade Wins County Seat!
First Long Valley County Council Members - 1917

30. Settlements
Cascade - Before the Move to Cabarton
Boise Payette - 1914

31. Settlements and
Transportation 1900
No Bridge! Stage Coach Fording the River

32. 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

33. 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.

34. 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.

35. Transportation
Smith‟s Ferry

36. Southern Long Valley
Homesteading & Agriculture

37. Homesteading
and Agriculture
K Scott - cutting
firewood in Long
Valley

38. Homesteading 1920‟s
Getting Logs for Firewood - F.M. Kerby Ranch

39. Lafe Cantrall Family
Round Valley Homestead 1890

40. Homesteading
Lafe Cantrall Family

41. Homesteading
Callender Family 1915

42. Homesteading
Dunn Brothers - A Sad Story

43. Homesteading 1899
Pioneer Women - Gertrude Coski Scott

44. Homesteading 1899
Pioneer Women

45. Homesteading - Pioneer Women
1922
Marion Morgan Kerby
Pioneer Teacher &
School Board Member

46. Homesteading - Pioneer Women
Fiona Nasi – Donnelly 1931

47. Homesteading - Siblings
Kerby
Homestead
1930

48. Kerby Homestead - Haying
When There Was a Need - Neighbors Helped Each Other

49. Haying with Horses
K. Scott Homestead

50. Homesteading
Putting up Hay in
Round Valley!

51. 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

52. Sheep Ranching
Aikman Ranch in Round Valley - 1897

53. Alpha
Grange
Charter Members
1935

54. Alpha Grange Float

55. Homesteading - Schools
Round Valley School - Built in the late 1800‟s

56. Homesteading - Schools
Round Valley
School – 1910
Mary D. Kerby
Teacher

57. Homesteading - Schools
Alpha Grade
School 1936-37

58. Homesteading
Sunday Schools
Alpha Sunday
School Class
Merry-Go-Round

59. Homesteading
Alpha Cemetery

60. Homesteading - Cemeteries

61. Transportation
Smith‟s Ferry Hotel 1910

62. Transportation
Callender Stage Coach

63. Transportation 1915
Laying Track - Outside Cascade

64. Settlements
Payette River Before Cascade Dam

65. Blasting for the Dam Cascade
1945-46

66. Settlements
Cascade Dam Construction
Looking
upstream
1947
Dam Construction Completed in 1948

67. Indigenous People
Mid 1800‟s

68. 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.

69. Indigenous People

70. Indigenous People

71. Indigenous People
Wedding Gifts

72. Indigenous People
Women Riding

73. Timber - Hauling Logs South

74. timber
Cruising Timber High Valley 1927

75. Hallack & Howard at Beaver Creek - 1930
timber

76. timber
H & H Log Chute - 1930

77. timber
H & H Log Chute
Beaver Creek 1930

78. timber

79. Timber - Early Logging Trucks
Round Valley 1922

80. timber

81. Timber - Hauling Logs
Estill Trucks Hauling through Cascade

82. Taking a Break!
timber

83. timber
Skidding to a Landing

84. Timber
Horse Skidding Teams

85. Timber - Cats Skidding

86. Timber - Loading Logs

87. Timber - Loading Logs

88. Long Valley
Mining
West Mountain Mine
Owned by Vic Ax
1910

89. Mining

90. Mining
Thunder
Mountain
Sluice Box
1918

91. Horse Team hauling mining
Equipment 1915

92. Mining – Stibnite 1940‟s

93. Recreation - 1923

94. Recreation
Dog Sled Racing 1920‟s
McCall to
Cascade
Donnelly
Pit Stop!

95. Wow! Look at „em Go!

96. Recreation: First Ski Meets
At Cascade - Probably at Crown Point
1930‟s

97. recreation

98. Recreation –Baseball
Early 1900‟s
Van Wyck

99. Recreation -Baseball

100. Recreation - Baseball
Roseberry Team

101. Recreation
Fishing on Gold Fork 1930‟s

102. Recreation
Van Wyck Rodeo 1918

103. Recreation - Cascade
Goodfellows Club - 1938

104. Thunder Mt. Recreation
Miners Playing A Friendly Game of Tug-of-War 1895

105. Photo Slide Credits
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