A brief overview of the history of the Wood River Valley in Idaho for those who are visiting the area or school groups studying it for the first time.
The book includes profiles of early settlers as well as information on First Nations, Chinese, missionaries, living conditions, occupations, early resorts, mining, and sheep ranching.
This is a histiory of Blaine County, Alturas County, the Oregon Trail, homesteading, and the cities of Ketchum, Hailey, and Bellevue. Based on oral histories with Martyn Mallory, Eugene Antz, Union Pacific, Edith Ellis Hyde, Dot Allen, Lucile Friedman, Jack Lane, Charlotte Rice, Julian Newman, Mary Brown, Ester Price Fairman, Annie I Miller and others. Includes maps, brochures, scrapbooks, photographs, newspapers, a timeline, and index.