The first governmental survey of lands west and north of Moreland, completed in 1893, notes the "Wood Road", so named for the settlers'...

The first "Tilden Tour" took place April 28, thanks to Cara Fitzgerald who graciously donated the use of her comfortable Transit van,...

At the intersection of Fullmerville Road and Township Road on the old Arco Highway, the decrepit remains of a labor camp stand as a...

In the early 1910's, canalworks to cross the lavas to the west of the People's Canal included flumeworks of between one and three miles...

In 1935, enough Aberdeen residents were sufficiently fed up by spending fifteen years waiting for the Blackfoot-Aberdeen Highway--Highway...

Henry, Tilden's protagonist, found the prisoner list for Idaho and found these names of men, all from Bingham County, incarcerated for...

In 1919, an Oasis Oil executive accompanied two landowners near Oakley to a "perfect oil dome" that gas was escaping from and where...

U and I Sugar hired 1500 Mexican laborers for work in the beets in Idaho (not all in Bingham County) with stipulations in their contract...

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...

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...

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...

This article in the Soda Springs newspaper provides a bit of background for the era that part of Tilden seeks to represent: (Caribou...

Major Danilson's (the spring running through Springfield bears his name) report for the U.S. Government regarding the Fort Hall...

The first court proceedings in Blackfoot, perused nearly 150 years later, read like the screenplay to a comedy. Legal advice from the...

A 17 year old boy wrote down his experience of driving a cattle herd from LaGrande to Cheyenne in 1876. Two or three pages refer to the...

Today we think of Bingham County as solidly Mormon (60 percent) who predictably vote Republican, but the area once was mostly non-LDS,...

Tilden originally included a discussion, which was later omitted, of a hanging that occurred near Meek's Ferry, which operated near...

In the early twentieth century, one of the most famous opera singers in the world appeared throughout Idaho--even dropping by in...

Snow fence the CCC built on the desert: The car gives the scale of the fence: Road building was a bit different with picks than it is...

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...