The Steamboat Idaho on Lake Coeur d'Alene

ID: 5557 ~ Source: Image courtesy of: Washington State Digital Archives
This file appears in: J.C. White House - New Museum of North Idaho

J.C. White's prize steamboat "Idaho" landing at the docks on Lake Coeur d’Alene. This was the first ship of his short lake transportation company success.

This file appears in: J.C. White House - New Museum of North Idaho

By Katherine Hentges
Known as “a hustler, a mover and a pusher” but also a man of “great personal charm”, Joseph Clarence (J.C.) White was a man of many hats. Born just south of Omaha, in the city of Wyoming, Nebraska in 1865, JC’s family moved to Colorado when he was…