Biography of Robert Grostein

Robert Grostein, one of Idaho’s most successful pioneer merchants, has carried on business in Lewiston since 1862 and through the intervening years has borne an unassailable reputation in trade circles, never making an engagement which he has not kept nor contracting an obligation that he has not met. His sagacity and enterprise and moreover his untiring labor have brought to him a handsome competence, and the most envious could not grudge him his success, so honorably has it been acquired. Mr. Grostein is a native of Poland, born in 1835, and is the eldest in the family of four children … Read more

California’s Pioneer Mountaineer of Rabbit Creek

Panhandling

John Thomas Mason’s meanderings in the out of the way places of the Western wilds. A short sketch of his ancestry, starting with the famous French explorer, La Salle, who was in the Great Lakes territory of American in 1669. Mason crossed the plains in 1851, and, to 1930, had spent 79 years in the Rabbit Creek region and Sierra County. Together with facts—curious, furious, funny or fine—of this rough and rich country in early days which have been little heard of or else forgotten. Free to read or download.