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"The way the guides work in the history of the river with informal lectures and readings at night and then visits to the sites during the day added variety and interest to the trip.""The way the guides work in the history of the river with informal lectures and readings at night and then visits to the sites during the day added variety and interest to the trip."
Salmon River, Idaho, and Yellow Jacket History


Historic Yellow Jacket boarding house in the Salmon River Mountains of IdahoPhotographs of Yellow Jacket town site, USGS 1926

Idaho Public Television, Gold Rush Days and Ghost Towns, featuring segment on Yellow Jacket filmed August, 2001

Idaho State Historical Society, Oral History Center
, archive includes audio tapes and transcripts of oral histories of William Heber Steen (1980, 1983) and Edwin French Steen, Jr., (1984). At this time I am seeking permission to post the transcripts of WHS and EFS2's interviews on this site.

Lemhi County Historical Society
, Salmon, Idaho. The museum has many historic photographs of Yellow Jacket in its collection.

Land of the Yankee Fork State Park
, Custer County, Idaho.

Jesus Urquides, Yellow Jacket tramway packer, Pioneer Hill Cemetery

Idaho State Historical Society, Yellow Jacket Mining District

 

Steen Family Information

"Steen family marks 100th anniversary," The Recorder Herald (Lemhi County, Idaho), May 3, 1979

The grandchildren of Daniel Morrison Steen with their great-grandmother Catherine Brown French, June 1937, photographed at Yellow Jacket

Annotations from back of Steen grandchildren photograph, written by Bill Steen March 22, 1979

Bonanza Cemetery, grave of John Steen, d. 1900

 

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