Idaho Meanderings

This blog contains history, photos, etc. related to Idaho from the late 1800's/early 1900's. My mother, Brenda Steunenberg Richards, was born in ID. Much of it pertains to the assassination of my great grandfather, Gov. Frank Steunenberg, the trial of Bill Haywood & grew out of the 100 year commemorations of those events. Along the way I toss in a bit of the Wild West, old guns, radios, military, etc. Your comments are welcomed. If using my images, please just ASK. Thank you.

Saturday, October 29, 2011

The Netherlands to America

Below is the latest updates to the Steunenberg family tree courtesy of Walter Steunenberg. I have the two documents hosted on Google docs for the first time and am not sure how well that will work for everybody. They are quite long, 63 and 62 pages, and slightly longer on Google. Keep that in mind if you plan to print or download copies. They may take a little while to completely download depending upon your Internet speed. Drop me a note if you prefer to receive as an email attachment.

I know Walter appreciates updates, corrections and/or additions. I will check and see if he would like his contact information posted on this blog. In the meantime, please feel free to direct any updates my way [mailto:john.t.richards@sbcglobal.net] and I will forward to him.

Willem Hendriks Steunenberg
(Our line from The Netherlands to America)

Peter Jansen Steunenberg
(The Netherlands back to 1610!)
From:John T Richards [mailto:john.t.richards@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 12:47 PM
To: 'Walter Steunenberg'
Cc: Bill & Berit Crookham ; Boles, Jan
Subject: RE: Family Tree
Walter:
Thank you for your continued good work and dedication to the family tree. I love researching our related history but keeping detailed family trees has never been my strong point. We have always been fortunate to have family members step forward through the generations. Grace Steunenberg Crookham and even my mother Brenda Steunenberg Richards took up quite an interest. Your work in that regard, taking advantage of today’s technology and software, has been phenomenal. I use this valuable resource frequently.

I will give this latest version a good look soon and enter a notation of its availability through my blog and to other family contacts. Also copying to the archivist, Jan Boles, at the College of Idaho.
Fantastic work!
Regards,
John
John T. Richards, Jr.

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Idaho Meanderings Update

Although still posting and checking this blog from time to time, I am not as active as I was in its earlier years. I have ventured out a bit into some Facebook History groups but will have to see how that goes. The jury is still out. However, please do not hesitate to comment, contact me directly or to pass along historical notes of interest. I started the blog over a decade ago and I do apologize for the many links that are no longer active and some formatting changes by Blogger that scrambled a few posts. I try to update pages when I am linking or utilizing them for other sites but correcting every link is a near impossible task. Enjoy the history.

GUNS, WARS, MILITARIA, WILD WEST, GUNSLINGERS

Lawmen (?). Guarding/ protecting the star witness.

True West. "A Case for Murder" "Mass bombings, revenge and labor upheaveals come to a head at a murder trial 100 years ago"-Mark Boardman
The West. The Regeneration of Harry Orchard. Oct. 1969
The American West. The Bomb at the Governor's Gate. Winter 1965
The American West. Portrait for a Western Album-"Big Bill" Haywood: Champion of Western Miners. Sep/Oct 1979
Old West. The Middle Years of Bob Meldrum. Spring 1970
Frontier Times. Wyoming's Mysterious Badman (Bob Meldrum). Winter1961
Frontier Times. Martial Law in the Coeur d"Alene. Nov. 1971
American History Illustrated. The Lion & the Fox-The Story of the Big Bill haywood Trial. April 1978
American Heritage. Shootout in Burke Canyon. Aug. 1971

Hallicrafters S-40A

QUOTES

"If you destroy the labor unions in this country, you destroy liberty when you strike the blow, and you would leave the poor bound and shackled and helpless to do the bidding of the rich."
Clarence Darrow

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."
Robert F. Kennedy

"History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days."
Winston Churchill