| Date | Volume | Issue | Author | Title | Description |
| 1997 | 41 | 1 | Chris Johnson | Bunker Hill: The Company That Made a Town | History of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mining operation in Kellogg |
| 1997 | 41 | 1 | Countess Eleanor Gizycka | Diary on the Salmon River | Narrative of a 1921 rafting trip from Salmon to Riggins with famed guide, Harry Guleke |
| 1997 | 41 | 1 | Merle Wells and Larry Jones | Salmon River Navigation | History of travel on the Salmon River from William Clark to the 1980s |
| 1997 | 41 | 1 | Thomas R. Cox | Book Review | So Incredibly Idaho: Seven Landscapes that Define the Gem State; by Carlos A. Schwantes |
| 1997 | 41 | 1 | Louie W. Attebery | Book Review | Barns of the West: A Vanishing Legacy; by Arthur A. Hart |
| 1997 | 41 | 1 | Phil Roberts | Book Review | North American Cattle-Ranching Frontiers: Origins, Diffusion and Differentiation; by Terry G. Jordan |
| 1997 | 41 | 2 | J. Anthony Lukas | The Making of Big Trouble | Details the process from research to publication of a book expaining the assassination of Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg in 1905 |
| 1997 | 41 | 2 | Alexander Caldwell Badger, Jr.; edited by Dennis R. Defa | "All in Fact … Agrees with Me": Letters from Fort Vancouver | 1860-1861 correspondence from Fort Vancouver, which served as a military and political post in the time before Idaho became a territory |
| 1997 | 41 | 2 | J. Patrick Bieter | Basques in Idaho | Exploration of Basque cultural history and the community in Idaho |
| 1997 | 41 | 3 | Proclamation | Dedication of the Merle W. Wells Archives Storage Building | |
| 1997 | 41 | 3 | Guest Editor's Note | Women's role in Idaho history | |
| 1997 | 41 | 3 | Sandra Schackel | Becoming Visible: Women in American History | Brief summary of women's activity in America history |
| 1997 | 41 | 3 | Rosemary Wimberly | "The Ballot in the Hands of a Good Woman": Margaret S. Roberts, Municipal Housekeeping, and Idaho Partisan Politics, 1890-1952 | Political and social biography of Margaret Roberts, a supporter of women's suffrage and progressive reform in Idaho |
| 1997 | 41 | 3 | Suzanne Sermon | Early Women's Organizations in Boise | Cultural and societal change influenced by women's civic organizations in Idaho |
| 1997 | 41 | 3 | Rosemary Wimberly | Steps in Subtle Revolution: Feminism, Politics, and Social Change in Idaho, 1967-1977 | Interviews with contemporary women reformers and history of feminist ideals in Idaho |
| 1998 | 41 | 4 | From the Editor | Changes to the publication | |
| 1998 | 41 | 4 | edited by James Robbins Jewell | Up Goat Trails and Across Prairies: Sergeant William Connolly's Reminiscences of the 1877 Nez Perce War | A soldier's memories of the military pursuit of the Nez Perce in 1877 |
| 1998 | 41 | 4 | Madeline Kelly Buckendorf | Research in Progress: Twin Falls Potato Cellars: A Reconnaissance Report | History of potato production around Twin Falls, as well as a photo essay of potato cellars |
| 1998 | 41 | 4 | Will McArthur | Of Cows and Contentment: A Case Study of the 1921 Depression | Social and economic history of the 1921 depression in Irwin and Swan Valley in southeastern Idaho |
| 1998 | 41 | 4 | Leonard Schlup | Senator Frank Gooding and the Crusade for Agricultural Reform in the 1920's | Agricultural depression in the 1920's and attempts to gain federal support from Congress |
| 1998 | 41 | 4 | Name Index to Volume 41 |