Today’s Tale ~ These photos were shared to the Museum from DeeAnna Racer, found in her “Grandmother Stockdale’s album”. President Harry S. Truman made a “whistle stop” in Bonners Ferry, Idaho on October 1, 1952. The BF Herald ran
By: Gini Woodward As the museum worker-bees continue to sort through accumulated piles of unfiled papers and documents, an occasional treasure worth sharing floats to the surface. Life in remote Boundary County has always provided the opportunity for brave adventures
TR Visits Bonners Ferry by Howard Kent December 2012 With the recent presidential election over, it was thought appropriate to reflect on a U.S. President who briefly passed through our neck of the woods. In September of 1888, a
In 2008 the Boundary County Historical Society published “Family Favorites”, a collection of over 500 recipes. The book was dedicated to long time Curator Eveline Cook Ruhberg. Dedication The Boundary County Historical Society Inc. is privileged to dedicate this
Today’s Tale ~ Been doing some research for a steamboat historian from Canada. He asked what we knew about the SS Klondike running on the Kootenai River. We talked it over in the research room, and none of us had
Museum Musings: M.P. Bogle By: Gini Woodward Each year in May, the Idaho State Historical Society presents a series of programs throughout the state with a common theme for Idaho Archeology and Historic Preservation Month. This year honors the
written in 1928, by Mrs. C. C. French from Cloverdale ranch of Crestwood, “that picturesque little suburb of Creston, which snuggles partly, along and over the arm of the western mountains to the international boundary.” An excerpt — “Yes, I
William “Billy” Houston Although his tombstone reads “1863”, William Houston was born April 6, 1865 in Clinton, Missouri. Growing up in Gentry County, Billy did farm work. Having no formal education, he taught himself to read as an adult. His
Museum Musings: School Days By: Gini Woodward The mornings are cooler and the geese are practicing flying up and down above the Kootenai River morning and night, sure signs that fall is imminent and it is back to school
Scenes on Albany Prairie Recalled by Pioneer Before Cayuse War Days Albany Daily Democrat 9 April 1922 M M Fry of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, aged 80 years, was speaking, and the day he described was 1849, and the scene