Tag Archives: Indian Valley Idaho

Walter Pitts Griffin – Gunpoint

Posted on March 4, 2018 by Kenneth Richard Hardman

Opportunity was slim in Newton Utah in 1899. Walter and Eliza Caroline journeyed by steam locomotive from Newton to Indian Valley Idaho, anxious for promising, “cheap and plentiful” land further north. A “lawless element…infested the railroad,” so, “mother and the … Continue reading →

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Walter Tennyas Griffin – Plows and Pennies

Posted on April 3, 2016 by Kenneth Richard Hardman

Shortly after his birth in 1898, WT Griffin, named after his father and the poet Tennyson, moved from Newton, Utah to Indian Valley, Idaho to homestead. Life was hard living off the land, raising grain and livestock. At age five … Continue reading →

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