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...

This is the CCC fleet in 1935 at Springfield: Being instructed on how to poison hay for distribution to jackrabbits. The Midway camp...

The fictional Henry (in Tilden) found a Japanese Balloon Bomb along the reservoir edge, no evidence exists that any of the 9000...

This is some of their reservoir work; they made several on the desert for the benefit of cattlemen: This cave near where they worked went...

In the book, Tilden, an explosion from 1946 near the Big Southern Butte is referenced. Watch this video of it, an actual occurrence:...