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Below is a 1943 USGS map which shows the location of part of the West Side Canal flumes through the lavas northwest of Moreland. Compare...

Though Company H accompanied the Shoshone Bruneau and Boise tribes from western Idaho to Fort Hall for a six week trip in 1869, no...

In May of 1894, John England wrote to LDS Church President Wilford Woodruff, asking for guidance on a move to Payette, Idaho. By...

The above display shows the Aberdeen-Springfield Canal's path and its seepage loss through specific areas. The Canal loses to seepage and...

The map below depicts areas of Idaho under irrigation well moratoriums which the Idaho Department of Water Resources has issued since...

The recently instituted water curtailment in southeast Idaho may seem like a surprise to most of us, but concern about diminishing...

For the "Gathering of the Tribes" chapter in "The Great Pasture", I had to go through two thousand government documents (mostly letters)...

Photo courtesy of Library of Congress Though some view government data gathering as an intrusion, it certainly serves those seeking an...

At the end of the nineteenth century, irrigation transformed the West from an area dependent on mining and grazing to an agricultural...

Many short accounts of the Peoples Canal construction exist, including that in Miracle of the Desert by Thomas Williams. While all deal...

Bingham County covered 165 miles north to west and 88 east to west in 1889, when it included Soda Springs, which the Governor's Report...

There were many avenues toward land ownership in Bingham County in 1890. The Land Register from Blackfoot listed the year's claimants in...

Miners, trappers, and those on the Oregon Trail didn't take much time out of their work schedules to taxonomize the local flora and fauna...

A history of Bingham County changes, from Cantonment Loring in 1848 to Willie George's appearance in a top-grossing Silent Movie in the...

Had the southeast Idaho settlers who dreamed about the "Great Pasture" had an aerial view of what would eventually be called the Craters...

CONTENTS Cantonment Loring and Camp Lander 9 Pre-Bingham County Toll Roads 14 Gathering the Tribes 20...

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The Snake River Plain appeared as a blank slate of promise to only those not paying attention, for every cattleman or settler aim met...