Rachel Martindale, curator, Cassia County Museum, Burley, Idaho, with anchor from the Burroughs family gold-dredging houseboat. |
Another view of the Burroughs family gold-dredging houseboat. The Building behind is the musuem. |
Rachel Martindale, curator, Cassia County Museum, Burley, Idaho, shows off a Jan. 2, 1920, copy of The Declo Independent, Declo, Idaho, which advertised on page 1 an upcoming serialization of Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar. |
A blowup of the cover of the Declo Independent, advertising the forthcoming serialization of “Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar.” How many such serials remain to be discovered in someone’s attic or garage? |
Another article from a historical edition in the Cassia County Museum showed photos and told history of the Burroughs family houseboat on the Snake River. |
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Clipping of a photo, showing the Burroughs family houseboat, is in a scrapbook at the Minidoka County Museum, Idaho |
Ruth De Thomas, director of the Minidoka County Museum, Rupert, Idaho, points to clipping of Burroughs houseboat. |
Minidoka County Museum display of photos depicting
the
Burroughs family gold-dredging operation on the Snake
River.
At the end of the westbound off-ramp to the Raft River area, one turns left to drive through the ranchland where young Ed Burroughs rode. |
Raft River Store sits at the intersection of the Yale Road and I-86. A small creek meanders about 100 yards back of the signs, all that remains of the river. |
Cattle are encountered along the Yale Road which winds through Idaho’s Raft River area, site of ranch were Edgar Rice Burroughs roamed a century ago. |
Naked but for a loincloth…er…bridle… these horses stroll the Raft River area, perhaps descendants of the very ones young Ed Burroughs saddled. |
A cattle-loading ramp, or “chute,” is ready for service along the Yale Road. Some ranches still operate in the area although farming is now the more dominant vocation. |
The Yale Road sign. |
Peggy Martin, wife of John Martin, stands next to shelf devoted to Burroughs at the U of Wyoming. Books are on top two shelves and half of second shelf from bottom. Shelves are two books deep, so there’s another row of E.R.B. behind each visible row. More of the collection was in storage when this photo was taken in 1992. |
Gene Gressley with Coe Library on University of Wyoming campus, in the background. |
Roy and Dela White, Denver, show off a Tarzan Jeep and the box it came in. Other fascinating stuff is on the shelf behind them. |
Roy White, left, showed part of his ERB collection to Alan Hanson, Spokane, during a visit to Roy and Dela White’s Denver home during the 1992 ECOF. |
PARMA, IDAHO
This is an article Lucille Peterson wrote for the
Parma newspaper, after my visit to her on my ERB in Idaho trip.
Lucille Peterson holds a copy of the history book she coauthored. It mentions Edgar Rice Burroughs. The book was a sellout, so the completist might have trouble finding a copy for his collection! |
Burroughs photo and books I sent to the museum after my visit there. Museum sent me this photo of the items on display. . |
After I left Idaho, I mailed back a few ERB items to each of the museums I visited, for their displays. This was a letter I received from the Parma Old Fort Boise museum. The letter accompanied a photo of the items I donated, on display at the museum, and an article Lucille Peterson wrote after I left. |
Mary Lien, director of the Bannock County Museum, Pocatello, shows off one panel of a multi-panel Burroughs display. This panel shows scenes from the Pocatello days; other panels show scenes from ERB’s later years. (The museum loaned me this display and I took it to an ECOF hosted by Ralph Brown in Willows, Calif., and afterward returned it to the museum). . |
Burroughs, with his collie, Rajah, which he brought cross-country by train. “Raja” became a character in a Burroughs novel . |
This is a view of Parma, Idaho, from the railroad tracks. Some of the buildings bear similarities to those in a picture on page 88 of Porges’ book, but whether it is really the same street or not I couldn’t tell and no one to whom I showed the old picture in Parma was sure either. |
This is basically a photocopy enlargement of the photo
Idaho-33.
The only reason I had this was that it seemed to show
off the “Book Store” sign
on the building at left a lot better. The caption
material is on the scan.
Actual photo of scene above.
A street-level view of Center Street in Pocatello,
Idaho, in 1896 shows the location of what was to become Burroughs’ store
at left.
This was four years before he took it over. This photo
is part of the Burroughs display owned by the Bannock County Historical
Museum.
The railroad underpass features pedestrian tunnels on both sides. This view from the right tunnel looks toward property on which Burroughs had his store in Pocatello. |
Burroughs’ store site is a block from this sign in Pocatello. |
A modern-day view of Center Street shows tree, at left, which occupies corner where the Burroughs store once stood. |
A closeup view of the corner on which Burroughs’ store stood. Coulter Tool Company uses corner for landscaping rather than parking spaces. |
The interior of Burroughs' Idaho store
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