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May 1, 20232 min read
Brigham Young crosses at Meek's Ferry (below Ferry Butte)
Brigham Young, the LDS Church's second president, forayed through Bingham County in the late 1850s, crossing at Ferry Butte on his way to...
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deadheadcutflowers
Apr 30, 20232 min read
The Old Wood Road/The Tilden to Lost River Road
The first governmental survey of lands west and north of Moreland, completed in 1893, notes the "Wood Road", so named for the settlers'...
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deadheadcutflowers
Apr 23, 20232 min read
The Taber Labor Camp
At the intersection of Fullmerville Road and Township Road on the old Arco Highway, the decrepit remains of a labor camp stand as a...
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deadheadcutflowers
Mar 30, 20232 min read
Aberdeen's Almost-Secession from Bingham County
In 1935, enough Aberdeen residents were sufficiently fed up by spending fifteen years waiting for the Blackfoot-Aberdeen Highway--Highway...
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deadheadcutflowers
Mar 21, 20232 min read
The Polygamists (ahem, cohabitators) of Bingham County
Henry, Tilden's protagonist, found the prisoner list for Idaho and found these names of men, all from Bingham County, incarcerated for...
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deadheadcutflowers
Mar 14, 20234 min read
Bingham County's Short-Lived Oil Craze
In 1919, an Oasis Oil executive accompanied two landowners near Oakley to a "perfect oil dome" that gas was escaping from and where...
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deadheadcutflowers
Mar 3, 20231 min read
Water Rights for Bingham County Ditches 1912
Here's a list of water rights for the County Canals; the numbers may have changed since then: Ralph Thurston is the author of "Tilden", a...
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deadheadcutflowers
Mar 2, 20231 min read
A map of the stagecoach lines near the turn of the century
In this map, borrowed from https://digitalatlas.cose.isu.edu/geog/rrt/part6/chp20/144.htm the stage lines are displayed from Fort Hall to...
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deadheadcutflowers
Mar 2, 20231 min read
Malcolm Forbes' Balloon Crash in October 1973
It was a little excitement added to the dreariness of a spud harvest in October 1973, when Forbes' balloon went down just north of where...
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deadheadcutflowers
Mar 1, 20231 min read
The War Bonnet Cattle Company
This article in the Soda Springs newspaper provides a bit of background for the era that part of Tilden seeks to represent: (Caribou...
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deadheadcutflowers
Nov 19, 20222 min read
Bingham County Ferries
Tilden originally included a discussion, which was later omitted, of a hanging that occurred near Meek's Ferry, which operated near...
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deadheadcutflowers
Oct 3, 20221 min read
Bingham County's own UFO magnet and seer, Paul Solem
Though he didn't appear in Tilden, the novel, Paul Solem did appear near Tilden Bridge for a week in 1969--the UFO's he claimed to be...
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