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Elk City, ID – 1890Pictured here, the Elk View Hotel in Elk City. 📷: #1890
02/18/2025

Elk City, ID – 1890

Pictured here, the Elk View Hotel in Elk City.

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#1890

The Turtles were Poppin’ off last night 🔥🐢 CONGRATULATIONS boys on the new EP. Go give it a listen, available NOW everyw...
02/16/2025

The Turtles were Poppin’ off last night 🔥🐢 CONGRATULATIONS boys on the new EP. Go give it a listen, available NOW everywhere you listen to music.

OUT NOW!! Turtle Poppers’ () debut EP “Don’t Ask Us What It Means” is available now wherever you get your music, and fea...
02/14/2025

OUT NOW!! Turtle Poppers’ () debut EP “Don’t Ask Us What It Means” is available now wherever you get your music, and features 6 original compositions. 🐢🐢🐢

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Helmer, ID – 1909📷: #1909
02/12/2025

Helmer, ID – 1909

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#1909

Old Centerville, ID – 1910Pictured here, Ben Koppes—a surname you will see all over the place in the Boise Basin—at his ...
02/08/2025

Old Centerville, ID – 1910

Pictured here, Ben Koppes—a surname you will see all over the place in the Boise Basin—at his Old Centerville sawmill, circa 1910.

📷: Steve Michael Koppes

#1910

TONIGHT ✨ LIVE AT THE SAPPHIRE ROOMOne night. Three historic Idaho folk songwriters. Gary Eller (Idaho Songs Project), T...
02/06/2025

TONIGHT ✨ LIVE AT THE SAPPHIRE ROOM

One night. Three historic Idaho folk songwriters. Gary Eller (Idaho Songs Project), Tracy Morrison (Historical Idaho Women Stories & Folksongs), and Connor Jay Liess (Trapper’s Attic Record Co.) are partnering up for an evening featuring original and traditional early Idaho historical folk songs and stories from the Western frontier.

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🕰️ Doors (6pm) Show (7pm)

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Clearwater Trainwreck – Unknown YearPictured here, a train decides to take a plunge in the Clearwater River somewhere be...
02/05/2025

Clearwater Trainwreck – Unknown Year

Pictured here, a train decides to take a plunge in the Clearwater River somewhere between Orofino and Peck, Idaho.

📷: Unknown

Wardner, ID – 1886Wardner is a town in Shoshone County named for Joe or Jim Wardner, an early promoter of the Bunker Hil...
02/04/2025

Wardner, ID – 1886

Wardner is a town in Shoshone County named for Joe or Jim Wardner, an early promoter of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine in the 1880s and a seller of corner lots in the city.

In the photo above, you can see Noah Kellogg’s b***o that discovered the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mine, as well as some hitchhikers on its back: Jerome Day, and Sam and Frank Poteet.

📷: Barnard, T. N. (Thomas Nathan) - Photograph collections

Rocky Bar, ID – 1891In the late 1800s, Rocky Bar had a population of more than 2,500. It was the county seat of Alturas ...
02/03/2025

Rocky Bar, ID – 1891

In the late 1800s, Rocky Bar had a population of more than 2,500. It was the county seat of Alturas County from 1864 to 1882.

📷: Idaho State Historical Society ()

#1891

📣 COMING SOON — Turtle Poppers’ debut EP titled “Don’t Ask Us What It Means” is hittin’ a pond near you! Recorded and mi...
01/31/2025

📣 COMING SOON — Turtle Poppers’ debut EP titled “Don’t Ask Us What It Means” is hittin’ a pond near you! Recorded and mixed by Trapper’s Attic Records in Boise.

Payette, ID – 1930An oil derrick spewing paydirt across the hills of Payette. #1930
01/30/2025

Payette, ID – 1930

An oil derrick spewing paydirt across the hills of Payette.

#1930

📅 THURSDAY NIGHT: Live at Barbarian Brewing Connor Jay Liess () and Jonah Svihus (._svi) are gonna be pluckin’ strings ...
01/28/2025

📅 THURSDAY NIGHT: Live at Barbarian Brewing

Connor Jay Liess () and Jonah Svihus (._svi) are gonna be pluckin’ strings like a Christmas goose. Rumor has it, has some barrel-aged elixirs flowing out the taps—rich and dark as Daniel Plainview’s oil derricks. With the mercury still down on the thermo-meter, there’s no better time to sip on a dark beer and listen to stories about trigger-happy black bears and men trapped under 40-foot ponderosas.

Snow Day in Silver City, ID – Unknown Year📷: Bob Hartman/Idaho History 1800 to Present
01/28/2025

Snow Day in Silver City, ID – Unknown Year

📷: Bob Hartman/Idaho History 1800 to Present

Boise River, ID – 1925Pictured in the bottom left of this photo, the Barber mill, which was located east of Boise. You c...
01/24/2025

Boise River, ID – 1925

Pictured in the bottom left of this photo, the Barber mill, which was located east of Boise. You can also see the New York Canal running to the bottom right corner.

Behind the mill pond you can see the old road to Idaho City heading up along the Boise River.

Notice the series of trails going up the right third of the photo? That in fact is the Oregon Trail descending the benches and dropping into the Boise Valley. However, not every line was made by the wagons. Highway US 20 wasn’t built to the south of this area until 1926.

So, there were vehicles and livestock driven along the route of the Oregon Trail too. Until the highway went in, the Oregon Trail route to Mayfield and then Mountain Home from the Barber area was still reasonable.

The last wagon train passed in the 1880s, so this photograph is only about 40 years later. A whole lot of history encapsulated in this one photo.

📷: Capt. A.W. Stevens (originally)
📝: Mariah Gunderson

#1925

Elk River, ID – 1920 Cutting timber in about 10 feet deep of snow north of Elk River at the Hunicker Logging Camp circa ...
01/23/2025

Elk River, ID – 1920

Cutting timber in about 10 feet deep of snow north of Elk River at the Hunicker Logging Camp circa 1920.

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#1920

Owyhee Trade Dollar Mine – 1900In this ca. 1900 photo, the crew of the Owyhee Trade Dollar mine pose for the camera. Thi...
01/21/2025

Owyhee Trade Dollar Mine – 1900

In this ca. 1900 photo, the crew of the Owyhee Trade Dollar mine pose for the camera. This mine was located between Silver City and Dewey, Idaho, high up in a remote mountain range in southwest Idaho.

This mine was a major producer, credited with $20,000,000 in gold and silver production by 1909.

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#1900

Here come the PEG LEG ANNIES — marking their debut at Pengilly Saloon on March 15, 2025. _svi
01/17/2025

Here come the PEG LEG ANNIES — marking their debut at Pengilly Saloon on March 15, 2025.


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Warren Wagon Road, ID – 1912This is amazing. Pictured here, the McCall to Warren dog sled mail route in 1912. 📷: Skip My...
01/16/2025

Warren Wagon Road, ID – 1912

This is amazing. Pictured here, the McCall to Warren dog sled mail route in 1912.

📷: Skip Myers/Idaho History 1800 to Present

#1912

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THAT’S A WRAPPP. The Attic has officially buttoned up recording sessions for the Turtle Poppers debut EP 🐢 #poppinturtles

Took a trip down memory lane last month while wandering the mountains overlooking Idaho City. I’ve always wanted to record a version of this song up in the trees, and luckily I found one kind enough to let me sit up against for a few moments. Thanks for giving it a listen, folks! And...stay tuned! I’m hoping to put out a few more field recorded videos in the coming months. Let me know down in the comments section which ones you’d like to see played out in Idaho’s wilderness. Copyright © 2024 Trapper’s Attic Records & Connor Jay Liess #trappersatticrecords #idaho #boisenationalforest #idahocity #idahomountainmusic #newvideo #rideonhome #ponderosa #originalmusic #americana #folk #idahofolk

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