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Popular Idaho Memoirs

This page lists some well known and popular memoirs by Idahoans. Older memoirs can be found in our list of Memoirs & Journals of Western Expansion.

  • Barnes, Kim. In the Wilderness: coming of age in unknown country. New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1996.
  • Calcaterra, Regina; Rosie Maloney; Jessica Anya Blau. Girl Unbroken: a sister’s harrowing story of survival from the streets of Long Island to the farms of Idaho. New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, 2016.
  • Carpenter, Novella. Gone Feral: tracking my dad through the wild. New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, 2014.
  • Deurbrouck, Jo. Anything Worth Doing: a true story of adventure, friendship and tragedy on the last of the West’s great rivers. Idaho Falls, Idaho: Sundog Book Publishing, 2012.
  • Foote, Mary Hallock; Edited, with an introduction, by Rodman W. Paul. A Victorian gentlewoman in the Far West: the reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote. San Marino, California: Huntington Library, 1972.
  • Freeman-Toole, T. Louise. Standing Up to the Rock. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2001.
  • Fromm, Pete. Indian Creek Chronicles. New York, N.Y.: Lyons & Burford, 1993.
  • Funda, Evelyn I. Weeds: a farm daughter’s lament. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2013.
  • Gray, Patrick, and Justin Skeesuck. I’ll Push You: a journey of 500 miles, two best friends, and one wheelchair. Carol Stream, Illinois: Tyndale Momentum, the nonfiction imprint of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2017.
  • Greenwood, Annie Pike. We Sagebrush Folks. Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho Press, 1988.
  • Gruber, William. On all Sides Nowhere: building a life in rural Idaho. Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002.
  • Hale, Janet, Campbell. Bloodlines: odyssey of a native daughter. New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993.
  • Hopkins, Sarah Winnemucca. Life Among the Piutes Their Wrongs and Claims. Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Press, 1994.
  • Johnson, Jonathan. Hannah and the Mountain: notes toward a wilderness fatherhood. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
  • Jordan, Grace Edgington. Home Below Hell’s Canyon. New York, N.Y.: Crowell, 1954.
  • Peavey, Diane Josephy. Bitterbrush Country : living on the edge of the land. Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Pub., 2001.
  • Rember, John. Traplines: coming home to Sawtooth Valley. New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, 2003.
  • Ross, Tracy. The Source of All Things: a memoir. New York, N.Y.: Free Press, 2011.
  • Schmidt, Susan Ray. Favorite Wife/His Favorite Wife: trapped in polygamy: a true story of violent fanaticism. Twin Falls, Idaho: Kassidy Lane, 2006.
  • Schrand, Brandon R. The Enders Hotel: a memoir. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
  • Sone, Monica. Nisei Daughter. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 2014.
  • Sundberg, Kelly. Goodbye Sweet Girl. New York, N.Y.: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018.
  • Westover, Tara. Educated. New York, N.Y.: Random House, 2018.
  • Yahr, Warren. Smokechaser. Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho Press, 1995.

 

This page was updated by Ronnie Joiner on September 18, 2019.

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