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

CAMPBELLVILLE About the same time as Rockford's establishment, Campbellville came into being--likely known as Liberty now, it was three...

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...

The 1879 survey of south Bingham County shows only a couple roads existing at that time. The Blackfoot to American Falls Road roughly...

World War I ended in November 1918, at least for the U.S., and shortly after that promoters sought to wed their own interests with...

Even before the U.S. became involved in World War Two, the military was preparing for the possibility by proposing a number of bombing...

in 1918, when electricity reached the Rockford area, the Aberdeen-Springfield Canal implemented a plan devised a decade earlier to pump...

An excerpt from the preface: On an Idaho map, the Snake River plain forms a smile-shaped arc--though perhaps a stroke-affected...

This photograph, courtesy of Sonja Durney (granddaughter of John Josephson, on a crutch to the right, and daughter of Ernest Josephson,...

Here's a Table of Contents for the three hundred page (plus) book. You may want to bounce around through the chapters, as there's no need...

Soon to be in stores and online. Final Proof is in hand, waiting for the last tedious editing. Here's the cover photo, courtesy of Sonja...

I was fortunate to find a barbed wire collector in Rexburg, Idaho who was gracious enough to give me a tour of history. Here are just a...

Below is a page from the original notes from the late nineteenth century survey. Tilden's protagonist-surveyor followed similar notes...

In Tilden, Henry mentions Logan County, a place likely a surprise to most of today's dwellers of Idaho. It existed only for a short time...

Tilden began with three questions, all of them still unanswered. Who created Dippel Springs? Who built the wooden cattleguards in the...

Tilden's Italian characters, while fictional, are based on factual occurrences. The Pingree area for decades had a significant Italian...

Brigham Young, the LDS Church's second president, forayed through Bingham County in the late 1850s, crossing at Ferry Butte on his way to...