Ralph Butler's war diary and the loss of the USS Monaghan
Ralph G. Butler, a son of Pauline homesteaders, kept a diary of the Pacific war until 1944 and was lost when his destroyer sank in a typhoon; in 1971 ISU historians edited it.
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Ralph G. Butler, a son of Pauline homesteaders, kept a diary of the Pacific war until 1944 and was lost when his destroyer sank in a typhoon; in 1971 ISU historians edited it.
An Arimo barber retiring in 1971 recalled the years he and his brother Abe ran horses in Bannock Valley and on Dairy Creek, until the hard times after the First World War.