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First cabin on McGuire homestead, possible false homestead claim, Marble Creek Item Info
- Title:
- First cabin on McGuire homestead, possible false homestead claim, Marble Creek
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1914
- Description:
- Photo text: 'First cabin on James R. McGuire homestead, August 11, 1914. Used as his 'jome' from date of location, fall 1901 to fall 1905, when new cabin was constructed. On October 16, 1905, this cabin, his 'home', had no floor, no door, poorly chinked and not mudded. No clearing around cabin, and no cultivation. McGuire is a saloon keeper at Clarkia, Idaho. The opening for a door is little over 4 feet high.' Note: Marble Creek region homesteads at this time were often part of a homesteads fraud being documented by the US Forest Service.
- Subjects:
- cabin claim pioneer settlers homesteads homesteaders false fake USFS lawsuit
- Location:
- Marble Creek;Idaho;United States; St. Joseph National Forest;Idaho;United States
- Latitude:
- 47.25075
- Longitude:
- -116.02043
- Source:
- NARA College Park RG 95; Box 51
- Source Identifier:
- NARA0815DC25
- Type:
- image;stillimage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "First cabin on McGuire homestead, possible false homestead claim, Marble Creek", Archival Idaho Photograph Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/archivalidaho/items/archivalidaho141.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Material determined to be in Public Domain based on date of publication. Material made available by the University of Idaho Library. For more information; please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu.
- Standardized Rights:
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/