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...

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...