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.

Friday, December 28, 2018

Frank Steunenberg's Days were already numbered

Click on this link: IDAHO HISTORY 1860's TO 1960's

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

"I have two incurable ailments. Life has become a trial. I can't go on."

"Major George E. Steuneneberg, 84, retired officer,......committed suicide by firing a .32 caliber bullet into his head while a horrified neighbor women watched, police said."

The Honolulu Advertiser
Honolulu, Hawaii

United States of America

Sunday, February 28, 1954

The Star Press - Tuesday, Feb. 23, 1954

U.S. Army during the Spanish American War/WW2 period.

Early career U.S. Navy.

Major George E. Steunenberg.

Grave site for the Major's wife--Georgia Steunenberg.


Canyon Hill memorial marker, Caldwell, ID

New York Times 6/13/1915

Thursday, November 22, 2018

Idaho Experience

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Idaho Experience-Turkey Flock at the Idaho Pen 1924

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

The Steunenberg Assassination and the trial of the century (from Facebook)

Friday, October 26, 2018

Idaho Mountain Express

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Bombs should unite us

Monday, October 22, 2018

The Woman's Column

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Governor of Idaho on Suffrage

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Steunenberg Brothers

Recently discovered photo of the Steunenberg Brothers. Click on link below.

FACEBOOK GROUP: IDAHO HISTORY 1860's TO 1960's

Sunday, October 7, 2018

Facebook Posts of interest

Newly discovered photos.

September 30, 2018
Idaho in the Spanish American War--Arriving Home

October 3, 2018

Steunenberg Residence and Assassination Site

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