Pauline and West Fork.
Pictures of Pauline and West Fork: its buildings and homesteads, the families who lived there, and the land patents that made the homesteads theirs. On the valley map: Water claims by family accounts from 1885–89, decreed from 1892; homestead entries from 1901; Pauline named in 1911; West Fork farms bought for the Fort Hall project from late 1936. 10 photographs · 9 land patents · 14 newspaper clippings.
From the history of Pauline and West Fork
The pictures in the original account of Pauline and West Fork. Read it ↗
View photograph ↗Pauline school bus
Pauline school bus
From: Pauline and West Fork ↗
View photograph ↗Meadow Ward (West Fork)
Meadow Ward (West Fork)
From: Pauline and West Fork ↗Buildings, homesteads and farm life
In date order; undated ones last.
View photograph ↗Arbon school, circa 1980
Arbon school circa 1980
From: School memories ↗
View photograph ↗A long horse hitch in the field
Farm scene on the David Thomas Lusk biography; the figures are too small to identify.
From: David Thomas Lusk & Susannah Bailey ↗
View photograph ↗Arbon Elementary School
The photograph on the archive’s Arbon Elementary School page (posted February 2010).
From: Arbon Elementary School ↗Families at home
Family pictures the records place in Pauline and West Fork.
View photograph ↗Charles sitting in chair, Maggie standing by window on left.
Charles sitting in chair, Maggie standing by window on left.
From: Charles Bolingbroke ↗School days
The first of 21 school photographs. See them all in the School days album ↗
View photograph ↗School class, 1961–1962
(submitted by Pam Estep Christensen)
From: School memories ↗
View photograph ↗School class, 1962-1963
(submitted by Pam Estep Christensen)
From: School memories ↗
View photograph ↗School class, 1966-1967
1966-1967
Year 1966‐1967
Grades 1‐8
st
1 Row: _____, Joyce Turner, ? Nelson, and Greg Stewart
2nd Row: Gary Turner, Kenneth Gibbons, ? Nelson, _____, and David Nuckols
3rd Row: Elaine Turner, Bruce Bradley, Curtis Nelson, and Bruce Krueger
4th Row: Mrs. Briggs, Jerry Evans, Frank Johnson, Vickie Nelson, Pam Estep, Brad Williams, Richard Briggs, David Lusk,
and Mrs. Stewart.
(submitted by Dan Nuckols / Pam Estep Christensen)
View photograph ↗School memories · photograph 10
1989
(submitted by Valaree Estep)
Land patents
Federal patents to homesteads in Pauline and West Fork, in date order.
View photograph ↗Desert Land Act patent to Lorenzo B. Evans, 1902
Federal land patent signed February 7, 1902 (BLM serial IDIDAA 005110). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to John M. Daniels, 1909
Federal land patent signed May 11, 1909 (BLM serial IDBL 0000620). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to Thomas D. Daniels, 1909
Federal land patent signed May 11, 1909 (BLM serial IDBL 0000614). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)
View photograph ↗Cash-entry patent to John W. Lusk, 1914
Federal land patent signed August 18, 1914 (BLM serial IDBL 0016763). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to David T. Lusk, 1914
Federal land patent signed May 6, 1914 (BLM serial IDBL 0008237). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to William Allard, 1914
Federal land patent signed March 7, 1914 (BLM serial IDBL 0005507). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to Perry Lusk, 1916
Federal land patent signed October 5, 1916 (BLM serial IDBL 0005532). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to Wilhelm Kowallis, 1916
Federal land patent signed March 9, 1916 (BLM serial IDBL 0005509). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)
View photograph ↗Desert Land Act patent to the heirs of David B. Evans, 1918
Federal land patent signed January 7, 1918 (BLM serial IDBL 0008228). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)In the old papers
Clippings of newspaper articles about Pauline and West Fork, in the order they were printed. All the clippings ↗
View photograph ↗Pauline takes the field in red, and Sunday baseball comes to Arbon Valley
In the spring of 1915 the Pauline nine wore new red suits, bought with help from a dance, as the valley’s neighborhood teams met each other on Sunday afternoons.
From: Pauline takes the field in red, and Sunday baseball comes to Arbon Valley ↗
View photograph ↗A windy Fourth at the Central school and a crowded 24th at Pauline
In the summer of 1915 Arbon Valley decorated its graves, held a big Fourth of July picnic at the Central school on July 3 and crowded the Pauline L.D.S. grounds for Pioneer Day.
From: A windy Fourth at the Central school and a crowded 24th at Pauline ↗
View photograph ↗Pauline gets its own polling place, and a valley man goes to the county board
In the spring of 1916 the Pauline schoolhouse became a polling place, and that fall two valley men, Gus Brahmstadt and John Noble, ran for the valley’s seat on the Power County board.
From: Pauline gets its own polling place, and a valley man goes to the county board ↗
View photograph ↗Pauline grows up around a store, a log-cabin school and the Meadow Ward
How Pauline got its store, school and post office, and how its Meadow Ward fared under its first bishop, Wilhelm F. Kowallis, from 1911 to his farewell in 1918.
From: Pauline grows up around a store, a log-cabin school and the Meadow Ward ↗
View photograph ↗Isabelle Noble, little clerk of the Pauline store, dies at 12
Isabelle Noble, 12, who helped behind the counter of her father’s store at Pauline, died of a burst appendix in 1917, one of four children John and Fanny Noble buried between 1915 and 1921.
From: Isabelle Noble, little clerk of the Pauline store, dies at 12 ↗
View photograph ↗Two Lusk brothers of Pauline marry two Bailey sisters of Arbon
Six weeks after he was drafted in 1917, Park Lusk of Pauline had been promoted twice, and the papers went on to follow him, his brother Dave and the Bailey sisters they married through war, a young wife’s death and the obituaries of the 1950s.
From: Two Lusk brothers of Pauline marry two Bailey sisters of Arbon ↗
View photograph ↗A deputy behind a telephone pole catches the Pauline wheat thieves
In November 1917 a Pauline wheat buyer followed a stolen load by lantern, and Deputy Sheriff Hy Secrist waited for the thieves behind a telephone pole.
From: A deputy behind a telephone pole catches the Pauline wheat thieves ↗
View photograph ↗Pocatello paper calls the spoiled Pauline wheat “rank fiction”
In June 1918 the Pocatello Tribune called the Nonpartisan League’s charge that Pauline wheat had rotted “rank fiction,” a month after its own report that some of it had spoiled.
From: Pocatello paper calls the spoiled Pauline wheat “rank fiction” ↗
View photograph ↗Wheat hauler B. O. Kelley killed in the dark at the Pauline bridge
Before daylight on December 23, 1918, B. O. Kelley, hauling Pauline wheat for the Zaring Grain Company, drove his truck off the Bannock Creek bridge at Pauline and was killed, two days before Christmas.
From: Wheat hauler B. O. Kelley killed in the dark at the Pauline bridge ↗
View photograph ↗Pauline votes the League ticket as Arbon stays Republican
Under a foot of snow in November 1920, Pauline voted the Nonpartisan League ticket that ran its own Jack McCool for county commissioner, Arbon held to the Republicans, and Crystal’s returns tipped the county’s Senate count by a single vote.
From: Pauline votes the League ticket as Arbon stays Republican ↗
View photograph ↗A shooting on the Pauline road, a deputy killed and two acquittals
On St. Patrick’s Day 1921 W. H. Ball shot a neighbor on the road near Pauline and a deputy sheriff at his cabin, and before the year was out two Power County juries had let him go.
From: A shooting on the Pauline road, a deputy killed and two acquittals ↗
View photograph ↗Pauline City, the crossroads that hoped to be a town
A doctor’s office, two stores and a grain warehouse gave Pauline hopes of becoming a town, and by 1923 its schoolchildren were cheering for “Pauline City.”
From: Pauline City, the crossroads that hoped to be a town ↗
View photograph ↗Pauline boy, 12, dies weeks after a ruptured appendix
Brought into Pocatello at 3:30 on New Year’s morning 1928 with a ruptured appendix, twelve-year-old Earl Lewis of Pauline lived eighteen more days.
From: Pauline boy, 12, dies weeks after a ruptured appendix ↗
View photograph ↗Rosa Bishoff, who came from Switzerland to Pauline, dies at 59
Rosa Bishoff, a Swiss immigrant of 1893 who raised her family at Pauline, died in Pocatello on December 6, 1928, at 59.
From: Rosa Bishoff, who came from Switzerland to Pauline, dies at 59 ↗Family albums from Pauline and West Fork
The families the valley map places in Pauline and West Fork.
Daniels family
Thomas D. Daniels Jr., David Moroni Daniels, George Daniels Sr. and 2 more
Lusk family
John Winters Lusk Jr., Annie Eliza Thomas Lusk, Perry Park Lusk and 4 more
Bolingbroke family
Charles Edward Bolingbroke, Margaret “Maggie” Roberts Bolingbroke, Henry Mitchel Bolingbroke and 4 more
Evans family
Thomas Bowen Evans, Susannah Smith Evans, Lorenzo Bowen “Ren” Evans and 4 more
Kowallis family
Wilhelm Friedrich Kowallis
Swim family
Frank William Swim, John William “J. W.” Butler, George Stahl Butler
Help put names to these pictures.
Many of these photographs still need names, places and dates. If you know who is in one, open it and choose “Help identify this photograph”. If your family keeps photographs of the valley, the archive would love to see them.