| Date | Volume | Issue | Author | Title | Description |
| 1981 | 25 | 1 | Editor's Note | Legal history in Idaho | |
| 1981 | 25 | 1 | Ronald H. Limbaugh | Fighter on the Bench: Milton Kelly's Idaho Legal Career, 1862 - 1870 | Territorial court judge residing over mining controversies and land disputes |
| 1981 | 25 | 1 | The Year Without a Code | 1863 as a year of political oversight of any enforceable laws | |
| 1981 | 25 | 1 | Mark Wyman | Mining Law in Idaho | Territorial, state, and federal legislation since the 1860's |
| 1981 | 25 | 1 | John Wunder | The Courts and the Chinese in Frontier Idaho | Chinese civil rights and the Idaho Supreme Court |
| 1981 | 25 | 1 | Merle W. Wells | Law in the Service of Politics: Anti-Mormonism in Idaho Territory | Legal and social discrimination of the Mormon community |
| 1981 | 25 | 1 | Community Property Laws | Equal ownership of possessions after marriage between husband and wife | |
| 1981 | 25 | 1 | Those Were the Days | ...when Idaho lawyers often had to begin their practices under truly frontier conditions. | |
| 1981 | 25 | 1 | Water Law in Idaho | Surface water rights | |
| 1981 | 25 | 1 | Scott W. Reed | New Law for a New State: The Legal Impetus to Development of the Material Resources of Idaho | Rise of eminent domain legal interpretation used by mining and timber industries |
| 1981 | 25 | 1 | Sheep and Cattle, Ranges and Courts | Open range conflict and competition between sheepherders and cattle men | |
| 1981 | 25 | 1 | Phillip J. Rassier | Legal Jurisdiction on Indian Lands: Authority in Transition | Federal, state, local, and tribal legal authority on native reservations, including the General Allotment Act, Major Crimes Act, Public Law 280 and major court rulings |
| 1981 | 25 | 1 | The Haywood Trial | Labor unions and the courts in 1907 | |
| 1981 | 25 | 1 | Paul J. Buser | "Our Finest Hour": Court Reform in Idaho | Major court reform in the 1970's |
| 1981 | 25 | 2 | Charles Coate | Federal-Local Relationships on the Boise and Minidoka Projects, 1904-1926 | Inadequate understanding of the costs and requirements of a major reclamation project led to tensions between settlers and the federal government. |
| 1981 | 25 | 2 | Carlos A. Schwantes | Law and Disorder: The Suppression of Coxey's Army in Idaho | A memorable late-nineteenth-century protest movement faced its major legal confrontation in Southern Idaho. |
| 1981 | 25 | 2 | Those Were the Days | ...when the grand Queen Anne-style home of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Ridenbaugh on Boise Avenue was the scene of many Boise social events. | |
| 1981 | 25 | 2 | Clark C. Spence | Pioneers with Wagging Tails: Dogs on the Trail to Oregon | A look at a neglected segment of the westward migration. |
| 1981 | 25 | 2 | Book Review | ||
| 1981 | 25 | 3 | James M. Weinberger | The British on Borah: Foreign Office and Embassy Attitudes Toward Idaho's Senior Senator, 1935-1940 | British concerns about American foreign policy were reflected in reports on a leading senatorial advocate of neutrality before World War II. |
| 1981 | 25 | 3 | Those Were the Days | ...when a salesman passing through Boise in May, 1902, recorded his impressions of the town on a pleasant spring day. | |
| 1981 | 25 | 3 | John Fahey | Ed Boyce and the Western Federation of Miners | The trials and tribulations of a turn-of-the-century western mining labor leader. |
| 1981 | 25 | 3 | Book Reviews | ||
| 1982 | 25 | 4 | W. Turrentine Jackson | Wells Fargo & Co.: Into the Inland Empire and Idaho Territory | The first in a six-part series on the development of commercial transportation in the Inland Northwest. |
| 1982 | 25 | 4 | Those Were the Days | ...when newspaper publishers and their assistants spent long hours in cramped, dingy quarters. | |
| 1982 | 25 | 4 | Sherilyn Cox Bennion | Ada Chase Merritt and The Recorder: A Pioneer Editor and Her Newspaper | Lemhi County journalism in the late 1800's was often a lively-and sometimes a painful- business. |
| 1982 | 25 | 4 | Leonard J. Arrington | Recalling a Twin Falls Childhood | A distinguished historian looks back at the community in which he grew up. |