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Notable Idahoans
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J.R. Simplot, founder Simplot Corp. A conversation with J.R. Channel Six News (Videocassette, 1995. VIDEO 338.092 CONVERS Aristocrat in burlap: a history of the potato in Idaho James W. Davis and Nikki Balch Stilwell Boise: Idaho Potato Commission, 1975
J.R. Simplot: a billion the hard way [Louie W. Attebery] Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Press, 2000. 338.7664 SIMPLOT ATTEBER Jack Simplot, a hometown boy who made good [Burley Herald-Bulletin] Burley, Idaho: Burley Herald-Bulletin, 1959. OV B SI571B Harry W. Morrison 1885-1971 Co-founder, Morrison-Knudsen Idaho entrepreneurs: profiles in business [Hal Bunderson] Boise, ID: Boise State University, 1992. 979.6092 BUNDERS Morris Hans Knudsen 1862-1943 Co-founder, Morrison-Knudsen Moses Alexander 1853-1932 First Jewish governor in the United States The Moses Alexander collection : including the papers of the Office of the Governor (1915-1919), the Alexander family, and M. Alexander, Inc. AR 2.0011 and MS 335 / arranged and described by Dylan J McDonald; design by Joshua Hammari. 979.603 ALEXAND MOSES A http://www.idahohistory.net/moses_alexander.html Cecil Andrus 1931- Three-term Governor and Secretary of the Interior under President Jimmy Carter Cecil Andrus : politics Western style Cecil Andrus and Joel Connelly. Seattle, Wa : Sasquatch Book, 1998. 979.6033 ANDRUS ANDRUS James Jesus Angleton 1917-1987 Celebrated CIA counterintelligence chief Cold warrior: James Jesus Angleton: the CIA's master spy hunter [Tom Mangold] New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. 327.1209 MANGOLD Phil Batt Governor The Compleat Phil Batt: a kaleidoscope Meridian, ID: Eva Gay Yost, 1999 979.6092 BATT BATT Life as a geezer Meridian, ID: Eva Gay Yost, 2002 979.6092 BATT T.H. Bell 1921- Educator Your child's intellect; a guide to home-based preschool education Salt Lake City: Olympus Pub. Co. 1973 649.5 BELL
Gregory H. "Pappy" Boyington 1912-1988 World War II Marine pilot, Medal of Honor winner Black Sheep One: the life of Gregory "Pappy" Boyington [Bruce Gamble] Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 2000 940.5449 BOYINGT GAMBLE Baa Baa, Black Sheep New York: Arno Press, 1972, c1958 940.544 B696B http://www.acepilots.com/usmc_boyington.html AcePilots Web page Frank Church 1924-1984 Senator Father and son: a personal biography of Senator Frank Church of Idaho [Forrester F. Church] New York: Harper & Row, 1985 328.7309 CHURCH CHURCH Fighting the odds: the life of Senator Frank Church [LeRoy Ashby] Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1994. 328.7309 CHURCH ASHBY The Frank Church record: a brief biography of United States Senator Frank Church... [Volunteers of Church Committee] Boise, Idaho: The Committee, 1962. RNW B CHURCH FRANK
A Lifelong affair: my passion for people and politics Washington, D.C.: Francis Press, 2003. 328.7309 CHURCH CHURCH Lou Dobbs CNN Anchor, Money magazine, U.S. News & World Report columnist
Space: the next business frontier New York: Pocket Books, 2001. Exporting America: why corporate greed is shipping American jobs overseas New York: Warner Business Books, 2004. 327.73 DOBBS 2004 War on the middle class: how the government, big business, and special interests are waging war on the American dream and how to fight back Viking, 2006. Ezra Taft Benson 1899-1994 Secretary of Agriculture and President of the Mormon Church Ezra Taft Benson: a biography [Sheri L. Dew] Salt Lake City, Utah: Desert Book Co., 1987. 289.332 DEW Cross Fire: the eight years with Eisenhower [Ezra Taft Benson] Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962. RNW 973.921 B443C William Borah 1865-1940 Idaho Senator, 1907-1940 Borah of Idaho [by Claudius Osborne Johnson] New York, Toronto: Longmans, Green and co, 1936 RNW LOC B B6444 The Spearless Leader; Senator Borah and the progressive movement in the 1920's [by LeRoy Ashby] Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972. 320.973 AS34S A Lion among the liberals: Senator William Borah and the rise of New Deal liberalism [by Kevin Charles Murphy] Song of a cynic: song of Borah [Donald A. Wells] S.l.: s.n., 1988 328.7309 BORAH WELLS William E. Borah and American foreign policy [Robert James Maddox] Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1970 328.7309 BORAH MADDOX
News articles on the life and works of honorable William E. Borah, late a senator from the state of Idaho [William K. Hutchinson] Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940 328.7309 BORAH HUTCHIN Chief Joseph 1840-1904 Nez Perce Leader Chief Joseph and the Nez Perces: a photographic history [Bill Moeller] Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Pub., 1995. 970.3 NEZ PER MOELLER Days with Chief Joseph [Erskine Wood] Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort, 19?? RNW 970.2 W85D That all my people may be one people, send rain to wash the face of the earth [Chief Joseph] Sitka, AK: Mountain Meadow Press, 1995. 970.3 NEZ PER JOSEPH JOSEPH "I will fight no more forever": Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War [Merrill D. Beal] Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1966. 970.3 NEZ PER JOSEPH BEAL 1966 Nez Perce Joseph, an account of his ancestors, his lands, his confederates, his enemies, his murders, his war, his pursuit and capture [O.O. Howard] Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1881. RNW 970.3 H83N LOC
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/six/jospeak.htm Chief Joseph speaks: selected statements and speeches by the Nez Perce chief From PBS Archives of the West. Averill Harriman 1891-1986 Railroad Tycoon, Sun Valley Promoter and Diplomat American and Russia in a changing world; a half century of personal observation Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 1971. 327.47 H236A Special envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941-1946 New York: Random House, 1975. 940.532 H236S Spanning the century: the life of W. Averill Harriman, 1891-1986 [Rudy Abramson] New York:W. Morrow, 1992. 973.9092 ABRAMSO http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/harriman.htm#note 1971 Oral history interview with Harriman. An electronic publication of the Truman Presidential Museum and Library. Frank W. Steunenberg, 1861-1905 Governor Big Trouble: a murder in a small western town sets off a struggle for the soul of America by Anthony J. Lukas, Simon & Schuster, 1997 The Martyr of Idaho by Frank Steunenberg College Place, Washington, 1974 Glen Taylor 1904- U.S. Senator, Inventor of the "Taylor Topper"
Liberal from Idaho: the public career of Senator Glen H. Taylor Pullman, WA: the author, 1968
Prophet without honor; Glen H. Taylor & the fight for American liberalism [Frank Ross Peterson] Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1974. 328.7309 TAYLOR PETERSO The way it was with me [Glen Taylor]Secaucus, NJ: L. Stuart, 1979. 328.7309 TAYLOR TAYLOR
Glenn Balch 1902-1989 Children's Writer Glenn Balch, an interview with a Western writer [videorecording] a production of the Simplot/Micron Technology Center ;executive producer, Elise Balch. Boise, Idaho : The Center, 1988. VIDEO 813.52 BALCH GLENN B Tiger roan New York: Crowell, 1938. RNW FICTION BALCH Indian paint, the story of an Indian pony New York: Crowell, 1942 FICTION BALCH G Christmas horse New York: Crowell, 1949. RNW FICTION BALCH The Midnight colt New York: Crowell, 1952. RNW FICTION BALCH The young sportsman's guide to western horseback riding. New York : T. Nelson, 1965. 798 B189Y Glenn Balch: A Biographical Sketch [by Alan Virta, Head of Special Collections at Boise State University's Albertsons Library] Mathew Barney Artist, Filmmaker http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/barney/
The Cremaster Cycle: the official Mathew Barney Website Polly Bemis 1853-1933 Chinese-American Idaho Pioneer Idaho County's most romantic character, Polly Bemis by Alfreda M. Elsensohn Cottonwood, ID: Idaho Corp. of Benedictine Sisters, 1979. RNW NW B Bemis Elsenso Polly Bemis, a Chinese-American pioneer [by Priscilla Wegars] Cambridge, ID: Backeddy Books, 2003 . J B Bemis Wegars Thousand pieces of gold: a biographical novel [Ruthanne Lum McCunn] Boston: Beacon Press, 1988. FICTION MCCUNN R Gutzon Borglum 1867-1941 Sculptor of Mount Rushmore Great white fathers: the story of the obsessive quest to create Mount Rushmore [by John Taliaferro] New York: Public Affairs, 2002 . 978.393 TALIEFE Gutzon Borglum: His life and work [by Robin Borglum Carter] Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1998. 730.973 BORGLUM CARTER The carving of Mount Rushmore [Rex Alan Smith] New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. 730.924 SMITH Borglum's unfinished dream [June Culp Zeitner] Aberdeen, S.D.: North Plains Press, 1976. 978.39 Z37B Carol Brink 1895-1981 Writer, 1936 Newberry Award medal winner for her book, Caddie Woodlawn Buffalo coat New York : Macmillan Company, 1944. FICTION BRINK A Chain of hands Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1993. 813.52 BRINK BRINK Four girls on a homestead Moscow, Idaho: Latah County Museum Society, 1977. 813.52 BRINK BRINK Carol Ryrie Brink [Mary E. Reed] Boise, Idaho: Boise State University, 1991. 813.52 BRINK REED Caddie Woodlawn New York: MacMillan, 1973. J BRINK Strangers in the forest New York: MacMillan, 1959. FICTION BRINK James Castle 1900-1977 Artist James Castle & the book [Tom Trusky] Boise, Idaho: Idaho Center for the Book, 1999. RNW 702.81 CASTLE TRUSKY
James Castle: his life and art [Tom Trusky] Boise, Idaho: Idaho Center for the Book, 2004. RNW 702.81 CASTLE TRUSKY
http://www.housepress.ca/castle.htm James Castle : online resources by Derek Beaulieu http://www.gregkucera.com/castle.htm Greg Kucera Gallery Vardis Fisher 1895-1968 Writer Rediscovering Vardis Fisher: Centennial essays [Joseph M. Flora, ed] Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho Press, 2000 813.52 FISHER REDISCO Vardis Fisher: the frontier and regional works [Wayne Chatterton] Boise, Idaho: Boise State College, 1972. 928 W252 No.1 The Clore collection of Vardis Fisher research materials: a guide [Boise State University Library, Special Collections Department] Boise, Idaho: The Library, 1989. RNW 813.5209 CLORE C Children of God: an American epic New York, London: Harper & Bros., 1939 RNW FICTION FISHER City of illusion, a novel New York, London: Harper Bros., 1941 FICTION FISHER V Dark Bridwell Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. FICTION FISHER V The Divine passion New York: Vanguard Press, 1948 RNW FICTION FISHER Mountain Man: a novel of male and female in the early American West New York: Morrow, 1965. FICTION FISHER V
Tiger on the road [Tim Woodward] Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1989. 813.52 Fisher Woodwar
Toilers of the Hills Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1933. RNW FICTION FISHER Mary Hallock Foote 1847-1938 Writer, Illustrator A Victorian gentlewoman in the far West: the reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1992. 813.4 FOOTE FOOTE 1992 The chosen valley Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892. RNW FICTION FOOTE Mary Hallock Foote: pioneer woman illustrator [Doris Bickford-Swarthout] Deansboro, NY: Berry Hill Press, 1996. 813.4 FOOTE BICKFOR The Idaho stories and Far West illustrations of Mary Hallock Foote Pocatello, Idaho: Idaho State University Press, 1988. 813.4 FOOTE Mark Furhman Writer Murder in Brentwood Washington, DC: Regnery Pub., 1997. 364.1523 SIMPSON FUHRMAN Murder in Greenwich: who killed Martha Moxley? New York: Cliff Street Books, 1998. 364.1523 FUHRMAN Lawrence Henry Gipson 1880-1971 Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner. First Rhodes Scholar from Idaho. The Coming of the revolution, 1763-1775. New York: Harper, 1954. 973.3 G44C Gene Harris 1933-2000 Jazz pianist
Elegant soul: the life and music of Gene Harris Caldwell, ID: Caxton Press, 2005. 786.2165 HARRIS HARRIS
http://209.221.152.102/aboutgene/ Boise State University's Gene Harris Jazz Festival Web page. Ernest Hemingway 1899-1961 Writer Hemingway: a life without consequences [James R. Mellow] Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. 813.52 HEMINGW MELLOW Papa Hemingway; a personal memoir [A.E. Hotchner] New York: Random House, 1966. 813.52 HEMINGW HOTCHNE The young Hemingway [Michael S. Reynolds] Oxford, UK; New York, NY, USA: B. Blackwell, 1987. 813.52 HEMINGW REYNOLD v.01 Hemingway, the Paris years [Michael S. Reynolds] Oxford, UK; Cambridge, MA, USA: Blackwell, 1989 813.52 HEMINGW REYNOLD v.02 Hemingway: the final years [Michael S. Reynolds] New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1999. 813.52 HEMINGW REYNOLD Hemingway: the 1930s [Michael S. Reynolds] New York: W.W. Norton, Co., 1997. 813.52 HEMINGW REYNOLD v.04 Ernest Hemingway; a life story [Carlos Baker] New York: Scribner, 1969 813.52 HEMINGW BAKER http://www.ehfop.org/ The Ernest Hemingway Foundation at Oak Park provides much biographical information. http://www.lostgeneration.com/hrc.htm The Hemingway Resources Center. Michael Hoffman Film Director Elmer Keith 1899-1984 Writer, Outdoorsman Keith: an autobiography New York: Winchester Press, 1974 799.2 K269K Sixguns by Keith, the standard reference Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Co., 1965 RNW 683 K269S
http://www.gunsandammomag.com/classics/keith_1007/ Twenty years with Elmer Keith from Guns & Ammo magazine Doug Martsch Musician, Built to Spill Patrick McManus Writer, humorist They shoot canoes, don't they? New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1981. 796.5 MCMANUS Never sniff a gift fish New York: H. Holt, 1984. 799.0207 MCMANUS Whatchagot stew: a memoir of an Idaho Childhood, with recipes and commentaries New York: H. Holt, 1990 641.5973 MCMANUS How I got this way New York: H. Holt, 1994 814.54 MCMANUS Jack O'Connor Writer, Outdoorsman Horse and buggy West; a boyhood on the last frontier New York: Knopf, 1969 917.91 OC1H Jack O'Connor's gun book Prescott, AZ: Wolfe Pub. Co, 1992 799.2028 OCONNOR The art of hunting big game in North America New York, Knopf, 1967. 799.2609 OCONNOR Ezra Pound 1885-1972 Poet The correspondence of Ezra Pound and Senator William Borah [ed. by Sarah C. Holmes] Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. 811.52 POUND The cantos of Ezra Pound New York: New Direction, 1948 RNW 811 P865C LOC Personae, the collected poems of Ezra Pound, including Ripostes, Lustra, Homage to Sextus Propertius, H.S. Mauberly New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. RNW 811 P86P LOC The trial of Ezra Pound; a documented account of the treason case, by the defendant's lawyer, Julien Cornell[Julien Cornell New York: J. Day Co., 1966. 811.52 POUND CORNELL The translations of Ezra Pound New York: New Directions, 1953. 808.8 POUND
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/pound/ From the Electronic Poetry Center at SUNY-Buffalo Paul Revere 1940- Entertainer, Musician Paul Revere & the Raiders: history rebeats itself! [Claudia M. Doege] Reno, NV: Dia Press, 1985 781.66 REVERE DOEGE http://www.paulrevereraiders.com/ Official Web site for Paul Revere and the Raiders Nell Shipman 1892-1970 Actress Letters from God's Country: Nell Shipman, selected correspondence & writings, 1912-1970 [selected & edited by Tom Trusky; with the assistance of Alan Virta] Boise, Idaho: Boise State University, 2003 791.4302 SHIPMAN SHIPMAN
The silent screen and my talking heart: an autobiography Boise, Idaho: Boise State University 791.4302 SHIPMAN SHIPMAN 1987
Under the crescent; illustrated with scenes from the photo play produced and copyrighted by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1915.
Nell Shipman collection. http://library.boisestate.edu/Special/FindingAids/fa81bio.htm Biographical sketch of Nell Shipman by Alan Virta, Specials Collections Librarian at Boise State University's Albertsons Library Sacagawea -Shoshone guide to Lewis & Clark Sacagewea speaks: beyond the shining mountains with Lewis & Clark [Joyce Badgley Hunsaker] Guilford, CT: Two Dot Books, 2001 970.3 SHOSHON SACAGEW HUNSAKE Sacagewea [Harold P. Howard] Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971 970.3 SHOSHON SACAGAW HOWARD Sacagewea: a guide and interpreter of the Lewis and Clark expedition, with an account of travels of Toussaint Charbonneau and of Jean Baptiste, the expedition papoose [Grace Raymond Hebard] Glendale, CA: A.H. Clark Co., 1933. RNW 970.2 H35 Rosalie Sorrels Folk Musician http://www.rosaliesorrels.com/woii/index.htm Rosalie Sorrels official web site. Curtis Stigers Musician http://www.curtisstigers.com/index2.html Curtis Stigers official web site. John Taffin Gun Writer
Action shooting cowboy style: an in-depth look at America's hottest new shooting game Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1997 OV RNW 799.311 TAFFIN
Big bore handguns Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2002 OV 623.443 TAFFIN
Big bore sixguns Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1999 RNW 683.436 TAFFIN Lana Turner "Sweater Girl", Actress Lana: the life and loves of Lana Turner [Jane Ellen Wayne] New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. 791.4302 TURNER WAYNE Lana- the lady, the legend, the truth New York: Dutton, 1982. 791.4302 TURNER TURNER The golden girls of MGM [Jane Ellen Wayne] New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003 791.4302 WAYNE 2003 Ted Trueblood Writer , Outdoorsman The Ted Trueblood collection at Boise State University: a guide to the papers of one of America's foremost outdoor writers and conservationists [Mary Hepworth-Carter] Boise, Idaho: Boise State University, Albertsons Library, Special Collections Dept., 2000 RNW 799.092 TRUEBLO CARTERH The Ted Trueblood hunting treasury New York, McKay, 1978. 799.2 T766TT The angler's handbook New York: Crowell, 1949. RNW 799.1 T766A
http://library.boisestate.edu/special/trueblood.htm The Ted Trueblood Collection at Boise State University: a guide to the papers of one of America's foremost outdoor writers and conservationists [Mary Carter-Hepworth, Sarah B. Davis, and Alan Virta] Bill Buckner Baseball player Harmon Killebrew 1936- Baseball Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew, baseball's superstar [Wayne J. Anderson] Salt Lake City, Deseret Book, Co. , 1971. RNW 796.357 AN24H The Harmon Killebrew story [Hal Butler] New York: J. Messner, 1966. 796.357 B977H Larry Jackson Baseball player, former Idaho legislator Jerry Kramer 1936- Football player, Green Bay Packers Instant replay; the Green Bay Packer diary of Jerry Kramer New York: World Pub., 1968. NW 796.33 K86I Jake Plummer NFL quarterback Gary Stevens Jockey/Actor
The perfect ride [Gary Stevens with Mervyn Kaufman] New York: Citadel Press, 2002. Gary Stevens Web Site Picabo Street 1971-- Skier, Olympic Gold medalist Picabo: nothing to hide [Picabo Street with Diane White] Chicago: Contemporary Books, 2002. 796.935 STREET
Philo T. Farnsworth 1906-1971 Inventor of Television Philo T. Farnsworth: the father of television [Donald G. Godfrey] Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2001. 621.388 FARNSWO GODFREY TV's forgotten hero: the story of Philo Farnsworth [Stephanie Sammartino McPherson] Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1996 J B FARNSWO MCPHERS The last lone inventor: a tale of genius, deceit, and the birth of television [Evan I. Schwartz] New York: HarperCollins, 2002 621.388 FARNSWO SCHWART The boy genius and the mogul: the untold story of television [Daniel Stashower] New York: Broadway Books, 2002 621.388 STASHOW The boy who invented television: a story of inspiration, persistence, and quiet passion [Paul Schatzkin] Silver Springs, MD: TeamCom Books, 2002. 621.388 SCHATZK Malcolm Renfrew Scientist Darwin K. Vest Hobo Spider Expert http://www.srv.net/~dkv/hobospider/ The Hobo Spider Web site
Vest, D.K. (1987): Envenomation by Tegenaria agrestis (Walckenaer) spiders in rabbits. Toxicon. 25(2), pp. 221-224. Vest, D.K. (1987): Necrotic arachnidism in the northwest United States and its probable relationship to Tegenaria agrestis (Walckenaer) spiders. Toxicon. 25(2), pp. 175-184.
Standards for inclusion: In general, all those listed as notable Idahoans were either born, raised, or moved to Idaho and spent some significant portion of time here. One need not have gained notoriety while residing here to make the list. For example, Lana Turner was born and raised here (Wallace) but gained considerably more fame after graduating from Hollywood High School in Los Angeles and becoming known as the "Sweater Girl". Also, something credible must have been published on the individual, either in print or on the Web, from which we can compile a brief bibliography. Last Update: April, 2007 Maintained by: Jim Jatkevicius, Boise Public Library Last updated: August 18, 2008 - 5:21pm by farrit
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