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.
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 7 February 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 11 May 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 11 May 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 18 August 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 6 May 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 7 March 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 5 October 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 9 March 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 7 January 1918 (BLM serial IDBL 0008228). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)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 3 more
Evans family
Thomas Bowen Evans, Susannah Smith Evans, Lorenzo Bowen "Ren" Evans and 3 more
Kowallis family
Wilhelm Friedrich Kowallis
Swim family
Frank William Swim, John William "J. W." 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.