Tickets; Shooting; Motion pictures; Public speaking;
Admission ticket from Robert W. Limbert's exhibition tours featuring his talents for imitating birds and animals, shooting a revolver, and showing films he made while exploring the Sawtooth Mountains. Limbert's appearance helped raise funds for the...
Izaak Walton League of America; Tickets; Public speaking;
Admission ticket to a Robert W. Limbert lecture in Chicago as part of his winter traveling lecture series. The Izaak Walton League, founded in 1922 to save outdoor America for future generations, often hired Limbert to perform for their...
Izaak Walton League of America; Tickets; Public speaking;
Admission ticket to a Robert W. Limbert lecture in Chicago as part of his winter traveling lecture series. The Izaak Walton League, founded in 1922 to save outdoor America for future generations, often hired Limbert to perform for their...
Admission ticket to a showing of motion picture films on the Sawtooth Mountains at Boise High School Auditorium. The motion pictures were filmed by Robert W. Limbert to help promote his new venture, Sawtooth Tours, Inc. that led tours into the...
An example of the "Blue Dragon Lava Flow" that explorer Robert W. Limbert wrote about in his National Geographic article. "This remarkable flow is well named. Its surface is netted and veined with small cracks like scales of a prehistoric monster,...
An example of the ten tent cabins that Robert W. Limbert built around Redfish Lake Lodge. Limbert described the tent cabins as made of "heavy buff canvas each which measure 9x12 feet, with boarded sides making a standard tourist camp." A tourist...
An unidentified man crouches down to explore the ripples of the lava fields. He holds a shotgun in his right hand while touching the ripples with his other hand.
An unidentified man sits on top of the ledge looking down at the hot springs, holding a walking stick. Hot spring water flowed into what Robert W. Limbert called "Indian bath tubs" while exploring the Bruneau Valley in 1921.
An unknown man in wool chaps (left) standing with George Washington Blackman (right), who was was said to be the first African-American resident of Custer County and one of the carpenters hired to work on Redfish Lodge. Both men stand in front of a...
Caption from brochure: "Robert W. Limbert with an "honest fish story" about Salmon caught in the Salmon River." The brochure advertised the splendors of Redfish Lake Lodge.
Caption from one of Robert Limbert's scrapbooks: "One morning we sighted a band of sheep which had got lost and true to a homing instinct had endeavored to get back to their home range on the shortest possible route. The result was they were in...