Daughter of Dr. William A. Adair and Losina Warner Adair.
Contributed by Diana Staresinic-Deane in March, 2011:
Ione S. "Pinky" Adair is featured prominently in the book "The Big Burn," by Timothy Egan. Apparently, she was a gun-toting single woman living in the wilderness, and was conscripted into cooking for a bunch of forest firefighters during the fire of 1910. She survived. There is a link to a recording of her oral history at http://www.spokesman.com/picture-stories/flame-and-ruin-stories-burn/
The "Spokesman" says she hiked 28 miles to Avery and then was conscripted; Egan says she was conscripted, and then when it looked like she and the firefighters were going to die in the blaze, she hiked the 28 miles to Avery and survived.
Below is a link to her oral history interviews at the University of Idaho:
https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/lcoh/people/ADAIR_ione.html
Contributed by Diana Staresinic-Deane in March, 2011:
Ione S. "Pinky" Adair is featured prominently in the book "The Big Burn," by Timothy Egan. Apparently, she was a gun-toting single woman living in the wilderness, and was conscripted into cooking for a bunch of forest firefighters during the fire of 1910. She survived. There is a link to a recording of her oral history at http://www.spokesman.com/picture-stories/flame-and-ruin-stories-burn/
The "Spokesman" says she hiked 28 miles to Avery and then was conscripted; Egan says she was conscripted, and then when it looked like she and the firefighters were going to die in the blaze, she hiked the 28 miles to Avery and survived.
Below is a link to her oral history interviews at the University of Idaho:
https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/lcoh/people/ADAIR_ione.html
Daughter of Dr. William A. Adair and Losina Warner Adair.
Contributed by Diana Staresinic-Deane in March, 2011:
Ione S. "Pinky" Adair is featured prominently in the book "The Big Burn," by Timothy Egan. Apparently, she was a gun-toting single woman living in the wilderness, and was conscripted into cooking for a bunch of forest firefighters during the fire of 1910. She survived. There is a link to a recording of her oral history at http://www.spokesman.com/picture-stories/flame-and-ruin-stories-burn/
The "Spokesman" says she hiked 28 miles to Avery and then was conscripted; Egan says she was conscripted, and then when it looked like she and the firefighters were going to die in the blaze, she hiked the 28 miles to Avery and survived.
Below is a link to her oral history interviews at the University of Idaho:
https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/lcoh/people/ADAIR_ione.html
Contributed by Diana Staresinic-Deane in March, 2011:
Ione S. "Pinky" Adair is featured prominently in the book "The Big Burn," by Timothy Egan. Apparently, she was a gun-toting single woman living in the wilderness, and was conscripted into cooking for a bunch of forest firefighters during the fire of 1910. She survived. There is a link to a recording of her oral history at http://www.spokesman.com/picture-stories/flame-and-ruin-stories-burn/
The "Spokesman" says she hiked 28 miles to Avery and then was conscripted; Egan says she was conscripted, and then when it looked like she and the firefighters were going to die in the blaze, she hiked the 28 miles to Avery and survived.
Below is a link to her oral history interviews at the University of Idaho:
https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/lcoh/people/ADAIR_ione.html
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