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...

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...

Once described as endlessly abundant, no doubt in order to lure settlers to unclaimed lands, southeast Idaho's water supply proved to be...

In 1890 a man named Ericson bought equipment to start a creamery in Blackfoot. Scheduled to open in June, its success must have been...

If you drove through Bingham County in January and February of 1979, you would have witnessed an unusual amount of truck traffic on the...

In 1880 Oscar Reed, among others, drove 6300 head of cattle to Porterville, intending to cross the Snake River there (where wouldn't be a...

In 1857 Heber Kimball, a member of the original LDS Quorum of Apostles, described the Shanghi Plain (what we now call the Snake River...