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Fort Lemhi: The Mormon Adventure In Oregon Territory 1855-1858
By David L. Bigler
Paperback - 372 pages
$24.95
David Bigler shows that the colony, known as the Salmon River Mission, played a pivotal role in the Utah War of 1857-1858 and that the catastrophic end of the mission was critical in preventing all out war between Mormon Utah and the United States.
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"Get Off And Push": The Story of the Gilmore & Pittsburgh Railroad By Thornton Waite
Paperback - 106 pages
$22.95
Completed in 1910 to serve the mines in Lemhi County, the line never made a profit, faced many obstacles and was known locally as the "Get Out And Push". Still, the railroad played an important role in the early growth and developement of the county.
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History of Lemhi County
By G.E. Shoup
Paperback - 34 pages
$5.00
Originally publised in the Salmon Recorder Herald (newspaper), this is a condensed history of the early residents of Lemhi County.
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Idaho's Governors: Historical Essays On Their Administrations
By Robert C. Sims and Hope A. Benedict
Paperback - 233 pages
$15.00
Thesse essays are intended to essential biographical information on each governor and to highlight the more important features of his term and political career.
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Images of America: Lemhi County
By Hope Benedict and the Lemhi County Historical Society and Museum
Paperback - 127 pages
$19.99
Author and historian, Hope Benedict was born & raised in the Lemhi Valley. In this fascinating book, she recounts Lemhi County history begining with the original inhabitants - the Lemhi Shoshone Indians and wrapping up with scenes from our valley at the turn of the century. Distinctive stories and archival photographs cover everything from mining, ranching, logging and the trials of transportation in this area.
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Lewis and Clark in Lemhi County, Idaho
By Richard R. Smith
Paperback - 56 pages
full color
$19.95
A Salmon, Idaho native, Smith has written this book in the chronological order that the events of the expedition actually took place.
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Sacajawea's People
By John W. W. Mann
Hard Cover - 258 pages
$24.95
Mann offers an absorbing and richly detailed look at the life of Sacajawea's people before their first contact with non-Natives, their encounter with the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the early nineteenth century, and their subsequent confinement to a reservation.
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Lost In The Shuffle: A History of the Veterans of Lemhi County, Idaho
byJulia I. Randolph
Paperback - 157 pages
$21.95
A local historian, Randolph has compiled histories of the Veterans from Lemhi County who served up through World War I.
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Madame Charbonneau
By John E. Rees
Paperback - 27 pages
$2.75
A book about the Indian woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804-06. How she received her Indian name and what became of her.
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Murder on the Middle Fork
By Don Ian Smith and Naida West
Paperback - 190 pages
$15.98
Based on a true story - one of Idaho's strangest murders (1917). Frieda lives by the laws of the wilderness in primitive isolation with her husband - until she finds something more important than raw survival. Suspense intensifies to the shocking conclusion, then resolves in deliverance. Set on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River.
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Patchwork: Pieces of Local History By Students of Salmon High School Patchwork Class
Paperback - 168 pages
This fascinating collection of Lemhi County historical happenings compiled from interviews, photos and archives.
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The Potts' Factor Versus Murphy's Law
By Stanley Potts
Paperback - 191 pages
$23.50
The beginning of a great series, Stanley Potts outlines many adventures and a few misadventures, of a lifetime truly lived to the fullest extent possible in remote country, whether in his native Idaho, Nevada or Alaska and the Yukon.
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Look Down On The Stars
By Stanley Potts
Paperback - 166 pages
$19.50
In his second book, Stanley Potts delves into more rich detail of an incredible lifetime of escapades in the remote lands of the American West.
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The Potts Factor's Return
By Stanley Potts
Paperback - 163 pages
$20.00
Book 3 of Potts' series drawn from 7 decades of his (mis)adventures in the wilds of the American West.
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The Sheep Queen
By Thomas Savage
Author of The Power of the Dog. Paperback - 242 pages
$13.95
A western family saga at once intimate and epic, this rich, compelling, emotionally charged novel tells the story of the Sweringen family of Idaho.
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