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Idaho Yesterdays - Article Index

Idaho Yesterdays - Volume 20

Date Volume Issue Author Title Description
1976 20 1 Owen Wister The Second Missouri Compromise The noted author of The Virginian wrote this short story, based on a peculiar episode in Idaho territorial history, while some of the participants were still around to talk about it.
1976 20 1   Those Were the Days ...when Idaho's legislature met in stores, hotels, and lodges.
1976 20 1 Merle Wells S. R. Howlett's War with the Idaho Legislature, 1866-1867 A documentary account of the episode on which Wister based his short story.
1976 20 1 Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown Early Twentieth-Century Blueprint for Transportation and Electrical Utilities On and Near the Spokane Indian Reservation The struggle to bring "modern conveniences" to the Spokane Reservation was a many-sided one.
1976 20 2 Rodman W. Paul When Culture Came To Boise: Mary Hallock Foote in Idaho One of Boise's most famous literary figures had ambivalent feelings toward the region in which she lived and about which she wrote.
1976 20 2 Larry R. Jones and Merle W. Wells William Priestly's Remarkable Invention An extraordinary pumping system supplied irrigation water and ran a gold dredge at Thousand Springs in southern Idaho.
1976 20 2   Those Were the Days ...when surveying and construction began on the New York Canal.
1976 20 2 Mary Hallock Foote The Harshaw Bride The major portion of a representative short story by Mrs. Foote, with Arthur Foote's notes on the journey which inspired it.
1976 20 3 Hugh T. Lovin The Farmer Revolt in Idaho, 1914-1922 Neo-Populist eruptions on the reclamation projects of south Idaho.
1976 20 3   Those Were the Days ...when the Perrine Bridge, 476 feet above the Snake, was built between Jerome and Twin Falls in 1926-1927.
1976 20 3 Merle W. Wells Interpreting Idaho's Heritage  
1976 20 3 Merwin R. Swanson Student Radicals at the "Southern Branch": Campus Protest in the 1930's A look at an earlier generation's campus political protest
1976 20 3 Dick d'Easum and Frank Williamson Pioneer Portrait: Nathaniel Williamson A colorful figure in Moscow's history.
1976 20 3   Editor's Note  
1977 20 4 E. Leo Lyman A Mormon Transition in Idaho Politics The test-oath controversy brought about changes in the LDS Church's relationship to Idaho political parties.
1977 20 4 Merle W. Wells Twenty Years of History An anniversary look at the Idaho State Historical Society's changing role and responsibilities.
1977 20 4   These Have Been The Days ...in which the Idaho State Historical Society's quarters have undergone dramatic changes.
1977 20 4   Interpreting Idaho's Heritage  
1977 20 4   Book Reviews