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Author: Randy Stapilus
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 1461746159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMassacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Idaho. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stagecoach, and train robbers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at lawmen turned outlaws. A refreshing new perspective on some of the Rocky Mountain's most infamous reprobates.
Author: John W. Heaton
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2010-01-06
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1461746140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFans of shoot-’em-up books and movie Westerns, as well as history buffs, will enjoy these short biographies about the baddest of the bad villains and desperadoes on the Alaskan frontier. Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Alaska. Readers will find themselves panning for gold with dry gulchers and claim jumpers, ducking the bullets of murderers, plotting strategies with con artists, and hissing at lawmen-turned-outlaws. A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Last Frontier, this book also includes historic, black-and-white photos.
Author: William McKeown
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 2003-04-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1554905435
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe little-known true story of a mysterious nuclear reactor disaster—years before Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, or Fukushima. Before the Three Mile Island incident or the Chernobyl disaster, the world’s first nuclear reactor meltdown to claim lives happened on US soil. Chronicled here for the first time is the strange tale of SL-1, an experimental military reactor located in Idaho’s Lost River Desert that exploded on the night of January 3, 1961, killing the three crewmembers on duty. Through exclusive interviews with the victims’ families and friends, firsthand accounts from rescue workers and nuclear industry insiders, and extensive research into official documents, journalist William McKeown probes the many questions surrounding this devastating blast that have gone unanswered for decades. From reports of faulty design and mismanagement to incompetent personnel and even rumors of sabotage after a failed love affair, these plausible explanations raise startling new questions about whether the truth was deliberately suppressed to protect the nuclear energy industry.
Author: Justin Smith
Publisher:
Published: 2022-03-31
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781772761689
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdaho History 1800 to Present began in 2019 as a Facebook group to share the rich history of Idaho's territorial years. The Idaho History 1800 to Present group is now the largest Idaho history group on Facebook with more than 40,000 members sharing pictures and information about Idaho's colourful past. Idaho History 1800 to Present offers us a window into the past, showing life as it was then, and stirring in us the emotions of wonder and curiosity about those who have gone before us and the lives they lived. With more than 130 photographs, many of them seen here for the first time, Idaho History 1800 to Present offers a stunning portrait of this one of a kind state.
Author: Randy Stapilus
Publisher: Myths and Mysteries
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781493040377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReading Line: Fourteen Mind-Boggling Tales from the Gem State Did one woman single-handedly save the members of the Lewis and Clark expedition from certain death? According to legend, a woman from the Niimíipuu tribe who had been rescued from slavery by a white family felt led to advocate for the travelers. If not for her courage and compassion, the story of the American West might have taken a much different trajectory. Could there really be a monstrously large serpent plying the depths of Bear Lake? Many dismiss the stories as Native American legends originally told to keep whites from settling in the area. Yet, for over a century, alleged eyewitness accounts, newspaper articles, and even TV shows continue to feed belief in the existence of a Bear Lake Monster. Is it true that the town of Kellogg almost was named Jackass? According to legend, the discovery of ore that led to a massive silver rush in Idaho's panhandle should be credited not to Noah Kellogg, but to the down-on-his-luck prospector's mule, Bill. Unfortunately, neither Noah nor Bill reaped the full benefits of what became one of the world's richest mining districts. From President Cleveland's alleged love child to the UFO highway, Idaho Myths and Legends of makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the Gem State's most fascinating and compelling stories. Randy Stapilus is a former newspaper reporter and editor. His other books include It Happened in Idaho, Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Idaho History, and Outlaw Tales of Idaho (all Globe Pequot Press). A long-time Idaho resident, he now lives in Carlton, Oregon, with his wife, Linda.
Author: Emily Ruskovich
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0812994043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA tale told from multiple perspectives traces the complicated relationship between Ann and Wade on a rugged landscape and how they came together in the aftermath of his first wife's imprisonment for a violent murder.
Author: Gary A. Wilson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2011-11-22
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 0762775866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the West and Midwest.
Author: Lynna Howard
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780870044595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDistributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Idaho’s backcountry wilderness is renowned for its stark beauty. Remarkably, some of the state’s most beautiful sites are easily accessible for the road traveler who is willing to drive the backcountry logging and forest service roads that few have cataloged. Brother and sister team Lynna and Leland Howard have spent years doing just that. With more than 114 photographs, 33 color maps, 31 detailed expeditions complete with GPS coordinates, Backcountry Roads—Idaho is an indispensable companion for the road explorer.
Author: Jeff Long
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780070386907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the life of Claude Dallas, a loner who lived off the land, from the time he killed two game wardens through the two years of his capture, trial, and sentencing
Author: Charles Kelly
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1959-01-01
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780803277786
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Wild Bunch, the confederation of western outlaws headed by Butch Cassidy, found sanctuary on the rugged Outlaw Trail. Stretching across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, this trail offered desert and mountain hideouts to bandits and cowboys. The almost inaccessible Hole-in-the-Wall in Wyoming was a station on the Outlaw Trail well known to Butch Cassidy. To the south, in Utah, was the inhospitable Robbers’ Roost, where Butch and his friends camped in 1897 after a robbery at Castle Gate. Charles Kelly recreates the mean and magnificent places frequented by the Wild Bunch and a slew of lesser outlaws. At the same time, he brings Butch Cassidy to life, traces his criminal apprenticeship and meeting with the Sundance Kid, and masterfully describes the exploits of the Wild Bunch.
