FARRIT

Take a look at the recently completed bibliography on the Oregon Trail under "Idaho Bibliographies".

I've added a category for Idaho Publishers and Presses. Please send me any suggestions you might have for inclusion.  Thanks!

 Jim

The last FARRIT meeting took place this morning, January 19th, at the ICFL.  Danna Angevine of the ICFL gave a valuable overview of the Idaho Digital Publications project, which aims to collect born digital state documents in pdf format, add metadata tags to them and build a digital collection using Content DM. Danna currently has over 4000 items in the database. The collection can be viewed at the Idaho Government Documents page at http://idahodocs.cdmhost.com/index.php

Another Idaho document has been added to FARRIT: Report to the Governor of Idaho on the Insurrection in Shoshone County, Idaho, Commencing April 29th, 1899.  This document was scanned in its entirety, and consists of 22 pages of a report composed by Attorney General Samuel H. Hayes addressed to Governor Steunenberg. Hays reports on the unrest in the mining communities of the Coeur d'Alene district.  You can find the link under Idaho History Resources.

Is a old report from the Commissioner of Immigration, Labor, and Statistics and contains wonderful prommotional-type language describing the bounty of Idaho in all of its agricultural, mineral, and climatological splendor. Such great photographs, too. Take a look at its contents under the Idaho History Resources link.