| Date | Volume | Issue | Author | Title | Description |
| 1996 | 40 | 1 | Deborah Jansen | I. B. Perrine: Taking a Stand | Biographical sketch and photo essay of an early settler to southern Idaho. He planted world-renowned orchards and was responsible for some of the first dam projects near Twin Falls. |
| 1996 | 40 | 1 | Hugh Lovin | A Century of Efforts: Trying to Reclaim The Mountain Home Plateau | Details history of irrigation development in the east of Boise and north of Mountain Home |
| 1996 | 40 | 1 | Sherry Horton | Pioneer Portrait: Moses Splawn | History of the first men to find gold in the Boise Basin |
| 1996 | 40 | 2 | Michael O. Tunnell | The Mailing of May | Story of five-year-old May Pierstorff who was mailed by her parents from Grangeville to Lewiston as a "baby chick" through early railroad parcel post |
| 1996 | 40 | 2 | Leonard Schlup | The Faithful Acolyte: Senator John F. Nugent and the Question of Membership in the League Nations | Nugent's support fo Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations post-WWI. Held in opposition to the view of more famous Idaho senator, William Borah. |
| 1996 | 40 | 2 | Those were the days | ...when candidates for political office are convening, meeting, and greeting. | |
| 1996 | 40 | 2 | David Louter | From Wasteland to Wonderland: Craters of the Moon National Monument | Study prepared for the National Park Service on the history and development of the unique landscape outside Arco |
| 1996 | 40 | 3 | Steven L. Grafe | "Our Private Affairs in Way of Barter": Correspondence between Dudley Allen and Henry Harmon Spalding, 1838-1848 | Letters between missionary Spalding to Ohio physician Allen in the mid-1840s when Spalding worked among the Nez Perce. The letters mention native artifacts that were sent to Allen and later returned to the Nez Perce tribe. |
| 1996 | 40 | 3 | Fred Woods and Merle W. Wells | Inmates of Honor: Mormon Cohabs in the Idaho Penitentiary, 1885-1890 | Story of prison life told from Mormons jailed for polygamous activity, compiled from diaries, journals, and personal accounts |
| 1996 | 40 | 3 | Mamie O. Oliver | Boise's Black Baptists: Heritage, Hope, and Struggle | History of St. Paul Baptist Church as a cultural center for Idaho's early African American community |
| 1996 | 40 | 3 | Amy Stahl | Book Review | Pilgrims to the Wild: Everett Ruess, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Clarence King, Mary Austin; by John P. O'Grady |
| 1996 | 40 | 3 | Michael Welsh | Book Review | When the River Rises: Flood Control on the Boise River, 1943-1985; by Susan M. Stacy |
| 1996 | 40 | 3 | Randy Stapilus | Book Review | Idaho's Governors: Historical Essays on Their Administrations; by Robert C. Sims and Hope Benedict |
| 1997 | 40 | 4 | Troy J. Reeves | "This Is Our Fair": The Eastern Idaho State Fair and Its Community | History of the fair and its reflection of the values and interests of the region |
| 1997 | 40 | 4 | Fred E. Woods | Footnote to History: The Idaho Territorial Penitentiary's First Female Inmate | Brief sketch of Heneba, a young Bannock woman, and her escape from prison |
| 1997 | 40 | 4 | Charles F. Hummel | 100 Years of Idaho Architecture: Tourtellotte & Hummel and Their Successors | Architectural styles used by the Hummel Architects across Boise for many government and community buildings |
| 1997 | 40 | 4 | Index to Volume 40 |