Bibliography of Idaho history explained

See also: Bibliography of Yellowstone National Park.

See main article: History of Idaho. The following works deal with the cultural, political, economic, military, biographical and geologic history of pre-territorial Idaho, Idaho Territory and the State of Idaho.

Surveys of Idaho history

• Book: Aiken, Katherine . Idaho: The Heroic Journey . 1-882933-73-7. Kevin R. Marsh . Laura Woodworth-Ney . 2006 . Cherbo Publishing Group .
• Book: Bancroft, Hubert Howe . Hubert Howe Bancroft . The History of Washington, Idaho and Montana (1845-1889) Vol XXXI . The History Company . San Francisco, CA . 1890 .
• Book: Bronsan, Cornelius J. . History of the state of Idaho . 1918 . C. Scribner's sons . New York .
• Book: Idaho: The Place and Its People; a History of the Gem State from Prehistoric to Present Days: 3 Volumes . American Historical Society . Chicago . 1933 .
• Book: Elliott, Wallace W. . History of Idaho Territory Showing Its Resources and Advantages; With Illustrations Descriptive of Its Scenery, Residences, Farms, Mines, Mills . San Francisco . 1884.
• Book: Fisher, Vardis . The Idaho Encyclopedia:Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration . Works Progress Administration . 1938.
• Book: French, Hiram T. . History of Idaho: a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests . 1914 . Lewis Pub. Co. . Chicago . Volume 2,
• Book: Hailey, John . The history of Idaho . 1910 . Press of Syms-York Company, Inc. . Boise, ID .
• Book: Hawley, James Henry . History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains (Volume 1) . The S. J. Clarke publishing company . Chicago . 1920. Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4
• Book: McConnell, William John . Early history of Idaho . 1913 . Caxton Press . Caldwell, ID .
• Book: Schwantes, Carlos Arnaldo . In Mountain Shadows: A History of Idaho . University of Nebraska Press . Lincoln, NE . 1991 . 0-8032-9241-4 .

Historic expeditions

See main article: Expeditions and the protection of Yellowstone (1869–1890).

• Book: Engelmann, George . Forwood, William Henry . Gray, Asa . Gregory, James F. . Sheridan, Philip Henry . Report of an exploration of parts of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana in August and September, 1882 /made by Lieut. Gen. P. H. Sheridan, commanding the Military division of the Missouri, with the itinerary of Col. Jas. F. Gregory, and a geological and botanical report by W. H. Forwood . U.S. Government Printing Office . Washington D.C. . 1882 .
• Book: Mattes, Merrill J. . Colter's Hell & Jackson's Hole: The Fur Trapper's Exploration of the Yellowstone and Grand Teton Park Region . Yellowstone Library and Museum Association and Grand Teton Natural History Association . Gardiner, MT . 1970 .
• Book: Work, John . Lewis, William S. . Paul C. Phillips . The Journal of John Work, A Chief Trader of the Hudson's Bay Co., During His Expedition From Vancouver to the Flatheads and Blackfeet of the Pacific Northwest . The Arthur H. Clark Company . Cleveland . 1923.

Hayden Geological Survey (1871)

See main article: Hayden Geological Survey of 1871.

• Book: Hayden, F. V. . Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden . The Great West: Its Attractions and Resources, Containing a Popular Description of the Marvelous Scenery, Physical Geography, Fossils and Glaciers of the Wonderful Region, and the Recent Explorations of the Yellowstone Park, "The Wonderland of America" . Charles R. Brodix . Bloomington, IL . 1880.
• Book: Merrill, Marlene Deahl . Yellowstone and the Great West-Journals, Letters and Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition . University of Nebraska Press . Lincoln, NE . 1999 . 0-8032-3148-2 .

Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806)

See main article: Lewis and Clark Expedition and Bibliography of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

• Book: Ambrose, Stephen E. . . Simon & Schuster . New York . 1996 . 0-684-81107-3 .
• Book: Russell, Steve F.. Lewis and Clark Across the Mountains: Mapping the Corps of Discovery in Idaho . Idaho State Historical Society Press . Boise, ID . 2007 . 978-0-931406-16-4 .

Business and labor

• Book: Aiken, Katherine G. . Idaho's Bunker Hill: the rise and fall of a great mining company, 1885-1981 . University of Oklahoma Press . Norman, OK . 2005 . 0-8061-3682-0 .

Indians

• Book: Arnold, R. Ross . Indian Wars of Idaho . Caxton Press . Caldwell, ID . 1932.
• Book: Eells, Myron . George Henry Atkinson . History of Indian missions on the Pacific Coast: Oregon, Washington and Idaho . The American Sunday-School Union . 1882 . Philadelphia .
• Book: McBeth . The Nez Perces since Lewis and Clark . 1908 . F. H. Revell Co. . New York .
• Book: Murphy, Robert F. . Yolanda Murphy . Northern Shoshone and Bannock . Warren L. D'Azevedo . Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 11: Great Basin . Washington, D.C. . Smithsonian Institution . 1986 . 978-0-16-004581-3.
• Book: Franklin County Historical Society (Idaho) . The passing of the redman, being a succinct account of the last battle that wrested Idaho from the bondage of the Indians . 1917 . Franklin County Historical Society and Monument Committee . Preston, ID .

Military histories

• Book: Brown, Colonel W. C. . The Sheepeater Campaign: Idaho 1879 . Idaho Historical Society . 1926.
• Book: Greene, Jerome A. . Nez Perce Summer-The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis . Montana Historical Society Press . Helena, MT . 2000 . 0-917298-68-3.
• Book: Hampton, Bruce . Children of Grace-The Nez Perce War of 1877 . Henry Holt and Company . New York . 1994 . 0-8050-1991-X .
• Book: Kip, Lawrence . Army Life on the Pacific; A Journal of the Expedition Against the Northern Indians, the Tribes of the Coeur D'Alenes, Spokans, and Pelouzes, in the Summer of 1858 . Redfield . New York . 1859 .
• Book: West, Elliott . The last Indian war: the Nez Perce story . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 2009 . 978-0-19-513675-3.

Primary sources

• Book: Miles, Nelson A. . Nelson A. Miles . Personal Reflections and Observations of Nelson A. Miles . 1896 . The Werner Company . Chicago .
• Report of special commissioners J. W. Powell and G. W. Ingalls on the condition of the Ute Indians of Utah; the Pai-Utes of Utah, northern Arizona, southern Nevada, and southeastern California; the Go-si Utes of Utah and Nevada; the northwestern Shoshones of Idaho and Utah; and the western Shoshones of Nevada . 1873 . U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs .

Local and regional histories

• Book: Beal, Merrill D.). History of Southeastern Idaho . Caxton Press . Caldwell, ID . 1942 .
• Book: Elsensohn, Sister M. Alfreda . Pioneer Days in Idaho County. Claxton Press . Cladwell, ID . 1947.
• Book: Russell, Bert . Hardships and Happy Times in Idaho's St. Joe Wilderness as Told By the Old Timers . Harrison, ID . Lacon Publishers . 1978 . 0-930344-04-9 .
• Book: Vardis Fisher . Idaho: A Guide in Word and Picture: Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration . Works Progress Administration . 1937 .
• Book: An illustrated history of north Idaho: embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho . 1903 . Western Historical Pub. Co. .

Law and order

• Book: Langford, Nathaniel Pitt . Nathaniel P. Langford . Vigilante Days and Ways-The Pioneers of the Rockies-the makers and making of Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming . D. D. Merrill . New York . 1893 .

Ghost towns

• Book: Florin, Lambert . Montana, Idaho and Wyoming: Ghost Towns . Superior Publishing Company . Seattle . 1971 .
• Book: Webb, Todd . Gold Strikes and Ghost Towns . registration . Doubleday and Co. . Garden City, NJ . 1961.
• Book: Weis, Norman D. . Ghost Towns of the Northwest . University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press . Caldwell, ID . 1972 . 0-87004-201-7 .

Biographies

• Book: Ashby, Leroy . Fighting the Odds: The Life of Senator Frank Church . Washington State University Press . Pullman, WA . 1994 . 978-0-87422-103-9 .
• Book: The Historical Encyclopedia of Wyoming . Wyoming Historical Institute . Cheyenne, WY . 1970. ^[1]
• Book: Mumey, Nolie. The Life Of Jim Baker 1818-1898 . Interland Publishing . New York . 1972.
• Book: Scherer, Joanna Cohan . . University of Oklahoma Press . Norman, OK . 2006 . 978-0-8061-3684-4 .
• Book: Scott, Kim Allen . Yellowstone Denied-The Life of Gustavus Cheyney Doane . University of Oklahoma Press . Norman, OK . 2007 . 978-0-8061-3800-8 .
• Book: Smallwood, William L. . Mcclure of Idaho . Caxton Press . Caldwell, ID . 2007 . 978-0-87004-458-8 .

Memoirs and primary sources

• Book: Bonney, Orrin H. . Bonney, Lorraine . Battle Drums and Geysers-The Life and Journals of Lt. Gustavus Cheyney Doane, Soldier and Explorer of the Yellowstone and Snake River Regions . Swallow Press . Chicago . 1970.
• Book: Taylor, Glen Hearst . The Way It Was With Me . 1979 . L. Stuart . 0-8184-0288-1 .

Political histories

• Book: Colson, Dennis C. . Idaho's Constitution: The Tie That Binds . Caxton Press . Caldwell, ID . 1991 . 0-89301-265-3 .
• Book: Limbaugh, Ronald H. . Rocky Mountain Carpetbaggers: Idaho's Territorial Governors, 1863-1890 . Idaho Research Foundation . Moscow, ID . 1982 . 0-89301-082-0 .
• Book: Stapilis, Randy . Governing Idaho: Politics, People, and Power . Caxton Press . Caldwell, ID . 2005 . 0-87004-447-8 .
• Book: Stapilis, Randy . Paradox Politics: People and Power in Idaho . Ridenbaugh Press . Carlton, OR . 2009 . 978-0-9824668-0-3 .

Social history

• Book: Fetherling, Douglas . The Gold Crusades: A social history of the gold rushes 1849-1929 . University of Toronto Press . Toronto, ON . 1988 . 0-8020-8046-4 .
• Book: Johnstone, Rachel S. . Inmates of the Idaho Penitentiary 1864-1947 . Idaho State Historical Society Press . 2009 .

Geology

• Eldridge, George Homans . A geological reconnaissance across Idaho. 1895 . U.S. Geological Survey Annual Report . 16 .
• Book: Lindgren, Waldemar . The mining districts of the Idaho basin and the Boise ridge, Idaho . 1898 . U.S. Government Printing Office . Washington D.C. .

See also

• Bibliography of Montana history
• Bibliography of Wyoming history
• Bibliography of Yellowstone National Park
• List of bibliographies on American history

Bibliographies

• Book: American Imprints Inventory . American Imprints No. 13: A Checklist of Idaho Imprints (1838-1890) . WPA Historical Records Survey . Chicago . 1940 .
• Book: Rees, John E. . Idaho chronology, nomenclature, bibliography . 1918 . W.B. Conkey Co. . Chicago .
  • • Peterson, C. Stewart. (1961). "Idaho" Consolidated bibliography of county histories in fifty States. 2d ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co.. pp. 27–28
• Book: Idaho Federal Writers' Project . Idaho, a guide in word and picture . 1937 . Caxton Printers . Prelinger Library . 1937 . Caldwell, Idaho . 415–418 . en-us . A Selected Bibliography . https://archive.org/details/idahoguideinword00federich/page/414/mode/2up.

Notes and References

1. Web site: University Libraries Wyoming Biography Database . University of Wyoming . 2011-12-04 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120405085823/http://www-lib.uwyo.edu/db/bio/search.cfm?BookID=2 . 2012-04-05 . 1669pp. 2 Vols. 1,520 biographies