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Looking for the ideal spot to pitch your tent or park your RV?
Camping Idaho will take you there. This comprehensive guidebook
gives detailed descriptions of more than 300 public campgrounds
throughout Idaho's widely varied scenery. These are campsites
managed by national, state, city, and county parks; the Forest
Service, the Bureau of Land Management; and the Idaho Power
Company. They're in the remote wilderness areas and near cities, in
deserts and on mountaintops, along roaring streams and by popular
fishing and boating lakes. Easy-to-use maps and charts will help
you choose the perfect site for your next camping trip, whether
you're going alone, with your family, or as part of a group. You'll
also find vital information on campground elevations, facilities
and hookups, fees and reservations, recreational activities, and
zero-impact camping. Whether you want to fish, hunt, or just get
away from it all, let this book be your guide.
Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Idaho History features fourteen
short profiles of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief,
visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes
from the history of the Gem State. It reveals the dark side of some
well-known and even revered characters from Idaho's past-both
part-time Jerks and others who were Jerks through and through. They
include: Ezra Pound, native Idahoan and celebrated poet, who
followed the slippery slope of socialism into full-on fascism,
became a sycophant of Hitler and Mussolini, and eventually stood
trial in the US for treason. Lyda Shaw, Idaho's most notorious
serial killer, whose marry-and-bury modus operandi enabled her to
make a literal killing on her late husbands' life insurance
policies. Caleb Lyon, the second territorial governor of Idaho, who
used his social prominence and political connections to make a very
comfortable living (sometimes shored up with his own embezzled
funds), dodging any of the actual duties that came with his
political appointments, and doing precious little else.
The frontier towns of Idaho were populated by some of the toughest
and most dangerous characters in the West. Serial killer Lyda Lewis
poisoned her unsuspecting husbands to cash in on their life
insurance. The Eddy and Splawn families created counterfeit U.S.
gold pieces. And "Diamondfield" Jack Davis, a notorious killer,
even shot a child's dog.
From Butch Cassidy to George Levy, Harry Orchard to Caleb Lyon,
read about the most notorious desperados in the history of the Gem
State. Through these astonishing true stories, Outlaw Tales of
Idaho introduces you to a state you thought you know--and a West
wilder than you even imagined.
This book offers an inside look at over 30 interesting and unusual
episodes that shaped the history of the Gem State.
From President Cleveland's alleged love child to the UFO highway,
Idaho Myths and Legends of makes history fun and pulls back the
curtain on some of the Gem State's most fascinating and compelling
stories.
The standard reference for detailed background information about
Idaho politics.
Here is the story of Idaho's power brokers, those well-known and
those behind the scenes, and the story of Idaho politics up to 1988
- of well-known figures like Cecil Andrus, Robert Smylie, Frank
Church, Jim MCclure, and many others - and the backroom players
most Idahoans never heard of, like Lloyd Adams and Tom McCall. In
this new edition, the author provides more than 100 notes updating
and expanding on the original text.
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