Though all Western states endured long disputes regarding their boundaries before being admitted to the Union, Idaho suffered the most...

Carp, somewhat despised by Bingham County fishermen, arrived in area streams when introduced by settlers who, like the carp, weren't...

Everyone knows (or is) someone who fancies themself an innovator/entrepreneur/inventor, a few actually succeeding and most of the rest...

The title of "dentist" in Blackfoot's early days could be conferred to about anyone with a pair of pliers. In 1896, though, the local...

The worst train wreck in Oregon Short Line's existence occurred in 1897 at American Falls, when the air brakes (a relatively new...

It is sometimes said that the best lawmen were themselves at one time criminals, and therefore knew the mindset of bad actors. No doubt a...

A Bingham County resident in the 1870s may have been acquainted with a freighter named Joe Skelton. If so, their meeting was likely...

In the back of every secret entrepreneur's mind is the thought of building a successful resort, whether it be establishing a golf course...

Beekeeping came with the settlers to Bingham County, the skill already ingrained in the community enough for the Insane Asylum to harvest...

The Bureau of Land Management announced plans for a fire lookout atop the Big Southern Butte in 1962. The BLM expected a heavy fire...

For a few years in the late 1970s and early 80s, Bingham County farmers (and more widely, Idaho and American farmers in general) thought...

The history of aviation in southeast Idaho started out with somewhat of a whimper. Airplane flights were advertised at the Eastern Idaho...

As might be expected, the first farmers in Southeast Idaho faced less insect pressure than their counterparts did in already settled...

Bingham County farmers who eyed the 1945 newspapers found a bit of promising news that somewhat assuaged the terrible events of World War...

Thanks to vaccines, we don't worry too much about most diseases once considered quite common--like diphtheria, which killed forty in...

About a mile downstream from the McTucker Boat Landing, the pillings of the second Tilden Bridge remain--the bridge was moved from here...

The Gros Ventre landslide in June of 1925 "couldn't have happened at a better time for water users", according to the Snake River...

1935 marked the seventh consecutive low-precipitation year for Southeast Idaho with predictable results. Cutoffs reached clear back to...

I've collected the photos taken at the Springfield CCC Camp, which was located about a mile northeast of Danilson Falls in 1935. They are...

Work on the American Falls Dam was underway in 1926 but the winter had been a dry one, with March snowpack above Jackson Lake measured at...