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 to sequentially read it and the tone of each piece changes--some of the longer pieces are more for the academically inclined. Enjoy!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. RESERVATION
Wyeth Establishes Fort Hall
The Fort Hall Indian School
Pre-Reservation Troubles
Tambiago
Post-Bannock War Problems
The Reservation Canal
The Ross Fork Highway
II. TOWNS ALONG THE CANAL AND RAILROAD
The Towns on the Aberdeen Branch Railroad
Pingree's History--Elaborated
The Springfield Dam Collapse and Archie Grover's Muskrat Farm
Taber, Cerro Grande, and Furey--The Heart of Bingham County's Dry Farm Failure
Cerro Grande (Big Hill), A Desert Promise
When Midway Became Atomic City
III. THE PEOPLE
W. H. Danilson
Lewis Shurtliff
James Shirley
Moroni Skeen and the Other Canal Personnel
Frederick Dubois
Everett Colburn
IV. BLACKFOOT HISTORY
Dr. Patrie, County Physician
Rooming Houses
The Keeney House, Blackfoot's First Hotel
The Ever Changing Mental Health Profession
The Sugar Factory
Chautauqua
A Botched Operation
Blackfoot's Consolidated Wagon Company
Southern Cooking
The First Cars in Blackfoot
V. BINGHAM COUNTY HISTORY
The Morrisites
The Travails of Winter
Sheep Versus Cattle
The Many Moves of the Tilden Bridge
The Power City
The Japanese Contribution
The Option Law and Prohibition
The Steam Thresher
Rustlers and Horse Thieves
The Mail Routes and School Wagons
Pingree's Italian Population
When Sheep Were King
Ice Cutting
Grimm Alfalfa Seed
The Fish Hatchery
Flooding in Bingham County
The Natural Development Association
VI. WATER
The Carey Act, Explained
Two Canals, One Tract of Land
Early Canal Difficulties
Windy Point
Turning Over the Canal to Users
Moving the Canal Frontier
Early Flume Attempts
The Dubois Project
The American Falls Reservoir's Beginnings
The American Falls Reservoir (Part Two)
Completion of the Reservoir
Moving a Town
The Aberdeen Branch Train Disaster
Bonanza Bar
Two Canals, Two Populations
Carey Era Failures: The Houston, Thousand Springs, and the Priestly Siphon Elevator
The Lost River Projects
The West Side Irrigation Company
The Ditch Rider
Wapello Water War
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