White Pine: King of Many Waters collection

White Pine: King of Many Waters collection, 1964-1970

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Strong, Clarence C. (Clarence Charles), 1895-1982; Webb, Clyde S., 1889-
Title: White Pine: King of Many Waters collection
Dates: 1964-1970 (inclusive)
19641970
Quantity: 1.5 cubic feet
Collection Number: MG 069
Summary: Research materials, correspondence between authors Clarence Strong and Clyde Webb, photographs, and drafts of the manuscript of White pine: King of many waters, a history of lumbering in the Inland Northwest published in 1970.
Repository: University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
University of Idaho Library
875 Perimeter Drive
MS 2350
Moscow, ID
83844-2350
Telephone: 2088850845
libspec@uidaho.edu
Access Restrictions: Collection is open for research.
Languages: English
Sponsor: Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

White Pine: King of Many Waters, published by Mountain Press, Missoula, Montana, in 1970, is a history of logging, sawmilling, and shingle manufacturing in the Idaho counties of Kootenai, Benewah, and Shoshone, and is the culmination of a six year research project of two retired foresters, Clarence Strong and Clyde Webb. Some of their research was done at the University of Idaho library and the library was fortunate enough to become the recipient of their materials.

Included among these materials are 137 photographs, many of which were not used in the book, both holograph and typed notes, newspaper articles on the timber industry, correspondence with informants, often relatives of prominent lumbermen, and the correspondence between the two authors. This correspondence begins with Strong's letter to Webb on July 28, 1964 in which he sets out his ideas for the book and asks Webb if he would be willing to assist with the research, and continues throughout the many fact finding trips, the attempts to find a publisher, and the final publication and distribution of the book. The final items in this group are typescripts of two drafts of the text.

The contents of this archival group are related in more detail in the following Description of Series.

Parts of this collection have been digitized and is avaiable at the White Pine - King of Many Waters Collection.

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Preferred Citation

Photographer, "Title," date. Collection name, object ID. University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, Moscow, ID.

Author, Description or "Title" of item, date. Collection name, collection number, box, folder. University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, Moscow, ID.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Materials in this group are arranged by type. The research material in the first series is in the order in which it was received from the authors, newspapers and newspaper clippings are arranged by the city where the newspaper was published, Coeur d'Alene, Harrison, or Spokane, and then arranged chronologically. Small clippings have been mounted, larger items, 1/2 sheet or larger, have not been mounted. Correspondence between the two authors forms part of the correspondence file; these letters are in chronological order. The remainder of the correspondence is in alphabetical order by correspondent.

Many of the photographs in this collection were numbered and cataloged when the collection was received in 1971. In 1980 more photographs were received, some duplicated what had been received earlier and were given the same number, the rest were numbered and cataloged when this inventory was prepared.

Acquisition Information

Material collected by Clarence Strong and Clyde Webb for White Pine: King Of Many Waters, 1964-1970.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

I: Research NotesReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
1	1	Lumber Companies - Directory Listings
1	2	Notes - Manuscript
1	3	Mining	1954
1	4	Lumber Companies by County
1	5	Manuscript - From Newspapers
1	6	Notes - Typed	1965

II: Newspaper ClippingsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
1	7	The Authors and the Book	1966-1970
1	8	Spokane Papers	1946-1969
1	9	Coeur d'Alene Papers	1958-1969
1	10	Harrison Searchlight	1963-1972
1	18	Miscellaneous

III: CorrespondenceReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
1	11	Ferrell	1949-1967
1	12	Fullerton	1966-1968
1	13	Porterfield	1965-1968
1	14	A-Z	1964-1971
1	15	Strong and Webb	1964-1965
1	16	Strong and Webb	1966-1967
1	17	Strong and Webb	1968-1970

IV: The Manuscripts, 1967-1968Return to Top

Container(s)		Description
Box	Folder
1	18	Manuscript (2nd Copy)
1	19	Manuscript (1st Copy)

PhotographsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description
		Photos Labeled "B"
Box	object
2	B-1	Strong, Clarence Charles, 1895-1982, 1969
2	B-2	Webb, Clyde Stephen, 1889-, 1954
2	B-3	Milwaukee Lumber Co. Log Train and Crew, 1913
2	B-4	Ohio Match Company Log Train, 1930
2	B-5	Edward Rutledge Timber Company Incline Railroad, Marble Creek
2	B-7	Logs Being Towed Down St. Maries River, 1942-06-06
2	B-11	Coeur d'Alene (Tugboat), 1941-05-08
2	B-13	Coeur d'Alene (Tugboat), 1941-05-08
2	B-17	Ohio Match Company Lumberjack, 1927
2	B-19	Champion Women Sawyers - Ruth Turcotte and June DeGraff, 1934
2	B-20	Fort Coeur d'Alene (later Fort Sherman), 1884
2	B-21	Logging - Little North Fork, St. Joe River
2	B-24	Rogers Lumber Company, St. Maries. Fire damaged yard, 02 September 1940
2	B-26	Flood - St. Maries. Milwaukee Lumber Co., 1933
2	B-27	Rose Lake Lumber Company #3 Camp, Falls Creek, 1924
2	B-28	Logging. Typical Chute, St. Joe area, 1915
2	B-29	Logging - Horses Trailing Logs in Chute, 1928-06-23
2	B-31	Team of Draft Horses, 1944
2	B-32	Horses Hauling by Flatboat, 1923
2	B-34	Tugboat Fleet - Lafferty Transportation Company Tugboats, 1955
2	B-35	Oxen and Logging Crew, 1907
2	B-36	Deck of White Pine Logs, 1940
2	B-37	Delaney Creek Chute, Winton Lumber Company, 1929-07-08
2	B-38	Milwaukee Lumber Company operation, St. Joe National Forest, 1920
2	B-39	Falls Creek Flume, 1925
2	B-40	Tractor ready to pull a load of logs to the river, 1913
2	B-41	Sleigh load of logs drawn by horses, 1911
2	B-42	Rose Lake Lumber Company flume on Falls Creek, 1925
2	B-43	Rose Lake Lumber Company Camp, Falls Creek - Pack mule team, 1925
2	B-44	Marianne Hensley helping on logging operation, 1925
2	B-46	Neil Fullerton at trailing flume, 1939-09-22
2	B-47	Brickle Creek Flume, 1925
2	B-49	Brickle Creek Flume, 1924
2	B-50	Benewah Creek Flume, 1966
2	B-51	Winton Lumber Company flume on Skookum Creek, 1924
2	B-52	Leiberg flume, Coeur d'Alene National Forest, 1920-07-01
2	B-55	Logging - St. Joe National Forest, 1923-06-18
2	B-58	Logging truck loaded with white pine, 1935
2	B-60	Logs stored in slough along St. Joe River, 1908
2	B-61	Al B. Lafferty, 1955
2	B-63	Logging - Sleigh load of logs pulled by tractor, 1932
2	B-64	Wester White Pine Timber, 1927
2	B-66	"Georgie Oakes" Steamship, 1910
2	B-68	Logging - St. Joe-Big Creek area, 1913
2	B-71	Grant Lumber Company , St. Maries, 1892
2	B-72	Idaho Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Post Falls, 1900
2	B-73	Ohio Match Company Plant, Huetter, 1928
2	B-75	Cameron Lumber Company sawmill, Harrison, 1901
2	B-76	Charles W. Russell boarding house & sawmill, Harrison, 1900
2	B-78	St. Maries Lumber Company Sawmill, St. Maries, Idaho, 1952
2	B-81	B.R. Lewis Lumber Company Sawmill, Coeur d'Alene, 1908
2	B-85	Post Falls Lumber Company Sawmill, Post Falls, 1946
2	B-86	Frederick Post Water-Powered Sawmill, Post Falls, 1890
2	B-88	A. W. Post sawmill, Rathdrum, 1890
2	B-90	Rutledge Unit, Potlach Forest, inc., Coeur d'Alene, 1966-06-30
2	B-91	Army Sawmill, Fort Coeur d'Alene (later Fort Sherman), 1910
2	B-92	St. Joe Lumber Company Sawmill, Harrison, 1903
2	B-93	Whip Sawing at Lake Bennett, 1890
2	B-94	Frank J. Davies, 1890
2	B-95	Richard E. (Dick) Ferrell, 1935
2	B-96	Fred Herrick, 1910
2	B-97	George Frederick Jewett, Sr., 1940
2	B-98	Morbeck, A. C., 1930
2	B-99	Frederick Post, 1900
2	B-100	Walter S. Rosenberry, 1935
2	B-101	Group Photo, 1955
2	B-106	Log Branding Hammer, 1968
2	B-110	Stine Lumber & Shingle Company, St. Maries - Day Crew, 1915
2	B-111	Sam Avery, 1900
2	B-112	Herman Laumeister, 1915
2	B-121	Beaver Creek Flume, 1922
		A.P. Bailey & Howard Drake on cars loaded with Ohio Match Company logs, 1926
		Photos Labeled "I"
Box	object
2	I-6	Using an "A" frame to load railway cars, 1923
2	I-8	Tugboat, 1942-06-06
2	I-9	Hercules (Tugboat) pulling logs on St. Maries River, 1942-06-06
2	I-10	Hercules (Tugboat) towing logs on St. Maries River, 1942-06-06
2	I-12	Hercules (Tugboat) towing logs on St. Maries River, 1942-06-06
2	I-14	Corliss Steam Engine Sign, Newport, Washington, 1967-04-15
2	I-15	Corliss Steam Engine, Newport, Washington - General view, 1967-04-15
2	I-16	Lake Steamers - Historical Marker, 1967-04-17
2	I-18	Ruth Turcotte & June DeGraff sawing dead tree in Central Park, 1934
2	I-22	Log jam above drawbridge in St. Maries, 1938-04-18
2	I-23	Log jam above drawbridge in St. Maries, 1938-04-18
2	I-25	Flood - St. Maries, Idaho, December 1933
2	I-30	Diamond Match Company Chute and Flume, Kaniksu National Forest, 1928
2	I-33	Hauling logging supplies by flatboat and team, 1923-07-16
2	I-45	Flume on Falls Creek, 1925
2	I-48	Logging - Neil Fullerton at trailing chute, Mica Creek, 1939-09-22
2	I-50	Benewah Creek Flume, 1968
2	I-53	Log Drive on Coeur d'Alene River, 1921-07-18
2	I-54	Sanders, Idaho, 1905
2	I-56	Joe Brown operation at Sanders, 1905
2	I-57	Sleigh load of logs - Joe Brown operation, Sanders, 1905
2	I-59	Sleigh loaded of logs - Joe Brown operation, Sanders, 1905
2	I-62	Hand logging operation, Big Grizzly Creek, Coeur d'Alene National Forest, 1921-07-18
2	I-65	Horse skidding logs on Stony Creek, Kaniksu National Forest, 1950
2	I-67	Truck loaded with logs, Kaniksu National Forest, 1957
2	I-69	Bunker Hill's First Sawmill, 1910
2	I-70	Jackson Lumber Harvester in Boundary County, 1948
2	I-74	Athol Lumber Company sawmill, 1911
2	I-77	Rutledge Unit, Potlatch Forests Inc., Coeur d'Alene, 1968
2	I-79	B.R. Lewis Lumber Company, Coeur d'Alene, 1908
2	I-80	B.R. Lewis Lumber Company - Composite, 1908
2	I-82	Ohio Match Company sawmill, Huetter, 1946
2	I-83	Coeur d'Alene Lumber Company sawmill, 1909
2	I-84	Coeur d'Alene Lumber Company Sawmill, 1905
2	I-87	A.W. Post Sawmill and Log Pond, Rathdrum, 1890
2	I-89	A. W. Post sawmill - interior, 1890
2	I-102	Huntington Taylor, 1926
2	I-103	C. Lee Billings, 1940
2	I-104	Edward Rutledge, 1900
2	I-105	Arthur Perl Bailey, 1963
2	I-107	James D. Miller and two grandsons, 1920
2	I-108	Stine Lumber and Shingle Company, St. Maries, 1914
2	I-109	Laumeister & Avery Shingle Mill, Harrison, 1913
2	I-113	Hercules (Tugboat) pulling logs down St. Maries River, 1942-06-06
2	I-114	Hercules (Tugboat) view of deck, 1942
2	I-115	Tugboat pulling logs on Coeur d'Alene River, 1955
2	I-116	Tugboat towing logs on St. Joe River, 1939
2	I-117	"Coeur d'Alene" (Tugboat) on St. Joe River, 1941-05-08
2	I-118	Log jam near drawbridge, St. Maries, Idaho, 1938-04-18
2	I-119	Unloading logs into St. Joe River, 1938-08-24
2	I-120	Log pile, 1915
2	I-122	Crane Loading Logs onto Truck, 1941-07-18
2	I-123	Scaling Logs before loading them onto a truck, 1941-07-18
2	I-124	Potlatch logs from Stony Creek at Merry Creek Landing, 1941-07-18
2	I-126	Log train loaded with yellow pine logs, 1942-06-07
2	I-127	Sleigh Loaded with Logs, 1910
2	I-128	Sleigh Loaded with Logs, 1910
2	I-129	Winton Lumber Company - Pack animals, 1928
2	I-130	Winton Lumber Company tailing logs into flume, 1925
2	I-131	Winton Lumber Company. Trailing logs into flume, 1925
2	I-132	Winton Lumber Company. "Rearing" a flume, 1925
2	I-133	Winton Lumber Company. Separating logs in flume, 1925
2	I-134	Winton Lumber Company, Falls Creek. Chute landing, 1925
2	I-135	Winton Lumber Company. Running chute, 1925
2	I-136	A.B. Lafferty and Ross Hall, 1950
2	I-137	Richard E. Ferrell, 1928

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