July 25
Left at 9 a.m. and drove 157 mi.; drove through desert most of the afternoon and camped at a little place called Streville, Idaho.
 

Note: The black line across southern Idaho represents the route taken. However, I am sure they're route was not nearly so straight!

Strevell is in the southernmost part of Cassia County, 4 mi E of Naf (and we all know where Naf, Idaho is!). Once the center of a farming community. Post Office, 1913-1924. Named for a Salt Lake City promoter under the Carey Act.

July 26
Left town at 7:15 a.m. and drove about 4 mi. and had a flat tire. Drove to Albion, Idaho where we wrote a postcard for our mail to be sent on. At 11:30, ate our dinner. Stopped at Twin Falls at 7 p.m., drove through Buhl and camped west of town.

At right is a picture of the Albion State Normal School. Standing in front of the school is the entire student body for 1922

Albion in the center of the Cassia county, is 14 miles SE of Burley. First called Marsh Basin, for the creek on which it is located; then changed to Albion in 1877 on the suggestion of early settler and storekeeper Miles G. Robinson. Albion became the county seat by election in 1879 and remained the seat until 1919. Post office, 1879 to the present.

The name means "white," or "white land," or "mountain land." It was the first name by which Great Britain was known and is till a poetic name for Great Britain. Whether Albion was one of several names to be selected by random drawing fro a hat has been disputed.

July 27
Left Buhl at 8:40 a.m. On the way to Hagerman we crossed the Snake River on a ferry. Stopped a short time in Hagerman. Four miles from King Hill we broke an axle out on the desert caused by the strain of pulling another car. U. C. and Howard walked to down and got a garage man to pull us in. His car was to also an Overland. The garage man sent to Boise for an axle and after July 28, 29 on July 30 at 11 a.m. started on. Arrived at Boise at 6 p.m. and went to a camping ground and spent the night.

	Automobiles rode across the Snake River on ferry boats by 1912. Earlier ferries at this point abover the Shoshone Falls were occasionally swept over the 212-foot "Niagara of the West" when cables broke. There were no survivors of such accidents.
Shoshone Falls, in the dark and awesom lava canyons of southern Idaho, is a relic of the great washout that occurred when Lake Bonneville broke out of its basin and drained down the Snake and Columbia rivers on to the Pacific. Although it looks fairly serene in the picture, it becames a spectacular water show during spring runoff.
	Shoshone Falls in a 1920 rendition.

July 31
Got our mail and left at 9 a.m.; arrived at our destination at 11:30. Spent that day and the next (August 1) in visiting.

The Idaho Family
Fay, Harold, Gertrude, Uncle Clay Aunt Dessie, and Claud

Aug. 2 Aunt Dessie, Uncle Clay, Aunt Bertha, Uncle Chan., and Howard and Harold went to Idaho City; while gone, Claud came down from camp. The (whole?) crowd except the two boys went to Boise on Aug. 3. That night we older girls went to a dance up over a high Mt. to Mr. Gardners. Left there Aug.4 at 6 a.m. and arrived at 8:45 a.m.

Even today, Idaho City remains little changed from its gold rush days

	An example of the condition of Idaho roads in the 1920s. This scene is on a road between Lowman and Garden City--not far from Idaho City.
State of the art camping equipment circa 1920. Photo of camp site near Boise River, Ada County, Idaho.

Aug. 5
F., Claud, Fay, Gert, Kenneth and I went to Boise. First ate our dinner and then went to Nat.; stayed all night and went to a show but F. and Fay.

	At left is a Christmas postcard showing the roller coaster at the amusement park created around the Boise Natatorium. The Natatorium is seen in the background
The Natatorium building featured a full-sized indoor swimming pool among other amusements, popular from the 1890's through the 1930's. The entire structure has long since been demolished to make way for "progress."

Aug. 6
At noon got Floyd up, got his dinner and went to the cemetery, then came back to town and went to a show. Then started home, four mi. from Uncle C. We had trouble with the car.

Aug. 7
Took car to town and had it fixed. Days pass in visit.

Aug. 10
Went to a dance at the school house.

Aug. 11
Got home at 8 a.m. to, went to bed and slept until 1:30 p.m.; got up, ate, and we kids went to the saw mill.

Aug. 13
Left Uncle Clay's at 12:10, arrived in Boise 1:50 p.m., went through capitol. On capitol grounds we saw G. Washington statue of guilted (gilded) wood. Left Boise at 4 p.m., drove to Meridian, then to Caldwell, then to Nampa; arrived here about 5:30 p.m., ate our supper at a restaurant, then drove on and were ferried across the Snake River, here we camped on the bank and were ate up by the mosquitoes.

	Idaho's Statehouse, begun in 1905 and completed in 1920, is one of the better proportioned state capitols in the country. The graceful Corinthian portico is especially pleasing. The rusticated ground floor courses remind some of the logs in a pioneer cabin.
The gian Corinthia columns in the Capitol rotunda are of scagliola - a classic plaster technique which imitates marble. The architectural space they surround is one of the most impressive in Idaho.

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