A Selection of Recommended Idaho Books by Idaho Librarians

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner  Doubleday, 1971.
 
Bitterbrush Country: Living on the Edge of the Land by Diane Josephy Peavey Fulcrum Publishing, 2002

Five Skies by Ron Carlson  Viking, 2007

At Nature's Edge: Frank Lloyd Wright's Artist Studio  by Henry Whiting  University of Utah Press, 2007

The Cyanide Canary by Joseph Hilldorfer and Robert Dugoni Free Press, 2004.
  
Home Mountains: Reflections From a Western Middle Age by Susan Swetnam Washington State Univ. Press, 2000
 
Idaho For the Curious: A Guide by Cort Conley  Backeddy Books, 1982.
 
Idaho Impressions by Mark W. Lisk  Grpahic Arts Center Publ., 1997. 
 
A Little Bit of Wisdom:  Conversations With a Nez Perce Elder by Horace Axtell  Confluence Press, 1997.
 
On All Sides Nowhere:  Building a Life in Rural Idaho by William Gruber  Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002.

Standing Up to the Rock  by T. Louise Freeman-Toole  University of Nebraska Press, 2001

A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West:  The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote edited by Paul Rodman  Huntington Library, 1992.

Where the Morning Light’s Still Blue:  Personal Essays About Idaho
edited by William Studebaker and Rick Ardinger University of Idaho Press, 1994.

The Deep Dark: disaster and redemption in America's  richest silver mine  by Gregg Olsen Crown Publishers, 2005.

Traplines: coming home to Sawtooth Valley by John Rember  Pantheon Books, 2003.

Above the Clearwater: living on stolen land by Bette Lynch Husted  Oregon State University Press, 2004.

Rocks, rails, and trails by Paul Karl Link and E. Chilton Phoenix. Pocatello, ID: Idaho Museum of Natural History, 1996, 2nd ed.

Bitterbrush country : living on the edge of the land by Diane Josephy Peavey
Golden, CO: Fulcrum Pub., 2001.

Irrigated Eden: the making of an agricultural landscape in the American west  by Mark Fiege Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1999.

We never speak of it: Idaho-Wyoming poems,  1889-90  by Jana Harris Princeton, NJ: Ontario Review Press, 2003

From hell to heaven: death-related mining  accidents in north Idaho by Gene Hyde Coeur d'Alene, ID: Museum of North Idaho, 2003

Idaho loners : hermits, solitaries, and individualists by Cort Conley Cambridge, ID; Backeddy Books, 1994

The way it was with me by Glen H. Taylor Secaucus, NJ: L. Stuart, 1979

Owyhee trails: The west’s forgotten corner by Mike Hanley Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1973

Gold Town to Ghost Town: the Story of Silver City, Idaho by Julia Conway Welch Moscow: University Press of Idaho,  1982

Idaho's noxious weeds by Timothy S. Prather, et al. University of Idaho, 2003.

Snowbound by Ladd Hamilton Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 1997

Idaho 100: stories from Idaho century citizens by John Ohara Kirk  Falcon Press, 1989

Snake: the plain and its people edited by Todd Shallat...et al  Boise State University, 1994.

Idaho Folklife: homesteads to headstones edited by Louie W. Attebery Idaho State Historical Society, 1985

Idaho's Highway History 1863-1975 published by Idaho Transportation, 1985

Idaho Unbound: a scrapbook and guide  by Clay Morgan, Steve Mitchell  West Bound Books, 1985

Beyond the Rockies: a narrative history of Idaho   by Ron Fisher and Charles R. Whitlock  Alpha Omega, 1989

Idaho: wild and beautiful by Steve Bly Farcountry Press, 2000

Idaho discovered by Kirk Anderson Stoecklein Publishing, 2000
 

 

Last updated: August 14, 2008 - 9:29am by farrit