Hike Lewis and Clark's Idaho
Anyone interested in exploring firsthand the mountains and forests Lewis and Clark traversed in 1805-06 in western Montana and the Idaho panhandle will find this guidebook indispensable. Hike Lewis and...
View ArticleOn All Sides Nowhere
Bill Gruber (’79 Ph.D. English) and his wife moved to rural Benewah County, Idaho, in 1972, inexperienced in all the necessary skills, but filled with a desire for solitude, simplicity, and natural...
View ArticleWhat I've Learned Since College: An interview with Rebecca Miles
Last May, Rebecca Miles became the first woman and, at age 32, the youngest person to be elected chairman of the Nez Perce tribe. In her one-year post representing the 3,000 members of the tribe, Miles...
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Rugged Mercy: A Country Doctor in Idaho’s Sun Valley
Robert S. Wright WSU Press, 2013 When 13-year-old Robert Henry Wright was caught spying on a kitchen table appendectomy, he was pulled in to assist. Inspired by that experience, the Hailey, Idaho,...
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Complexity in a Ditch: Bringing Water to the Idaho Desert
Hugh T. Lovin ’56 MA History WSU Press: 2017 Growing up on a farm near Inkom, Idaho, the young Hugh Lovin would engineer ways to divert water to the crops he produced for his livestock. Later in...
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Stripland
Joan Burbick Redbat Books: 2019 A Nez Perce man, a hoop dancer, is shot and killed on the reservation in remote, rural Idaho by a state trooper. A homeless white man lugs a thick rope, one end...
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Up, up, and beyond
Jerry Jaeger had nowhere to go but up. As a pre-teen washing dishes in his parents’ Ritzville restaurant, the Circle T Inn, he was too short to do his first job. Someone gave him a wooden Pepsi box to...
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Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots
DJ Lee Oregon State University Press: 2020 Places can possess us. Think of the stubbled, ochre hills of the Palouse in the chaffy light of October. No place possesses me more than the landscape...
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Sins of the Bees
Annie Lampman Pegasus Crime: 2020 This profoundly Pacific Northwest novel—chock-full of vivid imagery of the region’s flora, fauna, history, and topography—follows Silvania “Silva” August Moonbeam...
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Inventing Idaho: The Gem State’s Eccentric Shape
Keith C. Petersen ’73 Hist. WSU Press: 2022 “Some borders accommodate natural features, but the map of the West is essentially a vast expanse of boxlike states. And then we have Idaho. What in the...
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