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Walking Main Street A History of Salmon City Main Street, 1866 - 2010
Researched and Written by Lemhi County Historical Society Members:
Cheryl Jones, Alberta Wiederrick, and Kay Chaffin
Paper back - $15.00
In this history of Salmon City, Idaho's, Main Street, Cheryl Jones, Alberta Wiederrick, and
Kay Chaffin demonstrate the fluidity of the western economy and the determination over time of western citizens to establish a viable community. Filled with historical photos and painstakingly researched history, this is a must for history buffs everywhere!
Proceeds from the book will be used to create historical signage for local businesses and homes. |
BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS
Fort Limhi: The Mormon Adventure In Oregon Territory 1855-1858
By David L. Bigler
Paperback - 372 pages
$24.95
In this comprehensive history, David Bigler demonstrates that the LDS colony, known as the Salmon River Mission (Fort Limhi), played a pivotal role in the Utah War of 1857-58 and that the catastrophic end of the mission was critical in preventing all out war between Mormon Utah and the United states. In the process, he uses a multitude of primary sources to reconstruct a dramatic and compelling story involving stalwart Mormon frontiersmen, Brigham Young, Native Americans, the U.S. Army, and mountaineers. As historian Will Bagley writes in his foreword to this book, “With its astonishing fish stories, desperate Indian battles, life-threatening chases, and heroic rides to rescue a terrified and helpless outpost, this work has all the elements of a great frontier novel.”
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"Get Off And Push": The Story of the Gilmore & Pittsburgh Railroad
By Thornton Waite
Paperback - 106 pages
$22.95
Completed in 1910 to facilitate mining in the “Texas Mining District” of Lemhi County, the Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad faced a multitude of challenges in its thirty year history, including steep mountain tracks, harrowing snow storms, floods, and an unstable economy. A shortage of profits led to poor maintenance and the train earned a variety of nicknames, including “The Get Out and Push.” Nonetheless, the railroad played a critical role in the early growth and development of the region.
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History of Lemhi County
By G.E. Shoup
Paperback - 34 pages
$5.00
This brief history of Lemhi County (originally published in the Salmon Recorder Herald )was compiled by George Elmo Shoup, son of Colonel George Laird Shoup who not only played a significant role in the economic and political development of Lemhi County but went onto become Idaho’s last territorial and first state governor as well as one of Idaho’s first United States Senators. George Elmo was first hand witness to much of his story and he provides an interesting perspective on the early years of a western mining and ranching community.
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Idaho's Governors: Historical Essays On Their Administrations
By Robert C. Sims and Hope A. Benedict
Paperback - 233 pages
$15.00
Idaho’s Governors: Historical Essays on Their Administrations is an excellent guide to the history of Idaho through its top political officials. The essays, written by regional historians, cover critical issues in the development of state’s government and of the state in general. In addition, the book serves as resource for future research into the rich political history of this state. The essays span the territorial era through the midpoint of Governor Cecil Andrus’ third and fourth terms in office.
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Images of America: Lemhi County
By Hope Benedict and the Lemhi County Historical Society and Museum
Paperback - 127 pages
$19.99
Author and historian, Hope Benedict was born and raised in the Lemhi Valley. In this Arcadia publication, Benedict uses the extensive photo collection of the Lemhi County Historical Society and Museum to portray the history of this American Western community. Photos of the Lemhi Shoshoni, mining, ranching, the timber industry, early transportation, pioneers, and Salmon City at the turn of the twentieth century, instill a sense of this place and its past.
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Lewis and Clark in Lemhi County, Idaho
By Richard R. Smith
Paperback - 56 pages [full color]
$19.95
A Salmon, Idaho, native, Smith portrays the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery experience (August 1805) in Lemhi County, Idaho.
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Sacajawea's People
By John W. W. Mann
Hard Cover - 258 pages
$24.95
Historian, John W. W. Mann offers an absorbing and richly detailed look at the life of Sacajawea's people before their first contact with non-Natives, their encounter with the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the early nineteenth century, and their subsequent confinement to a reservation. He follows the liquidation of the Lemhis’ reservation in 1907 to their forced union with the Shoshone-Bannock tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation and recounts their continuing struggle to maintain their political, economic, and cultural integrity.
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Lost In The Shuffle: A History of the Veterans of Lemhi County, Idaho
By Julia I. Randolph
Paperback - 157 pages
$21.95
Julia Randolph, regional historian and author of a number of books on East Central Idaho, including This Quiet Ground and Gibbonsville: The Golden Years, compiled the biographies of Lemhi County Veterans from the Civil War to those who served in World War I.
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Madame Charbonneau
By John E. Rees
Paperback - 27 pages
$2.75
John E. Rees, early Lemhi County resident, teacher, politician, and businessman, wrote this account of Sacajawea just over one hundred years after the Lewis and Clark Expedition. To the continuing mystery of Sacajawea’s life, Rees adds his theories about the young woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery.
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Murder on the Middle Fork
By Don Ian Smith and Naida West
Paperback - 190 pages
$15.98
Based on a true story - one of Idaho's strangest murders (1917): Frieda lives by the laws of the wilderness in primitive isolation with her husband until she finds something more important than raw survival. Suspense intensifies to the shocking conclusion, then resolves in deliverance. Set on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. |
Patchwork: Pieces of Local History
By Students of Salmon High School Patchwork Class
Paperback - 168 pages
$5.00
Salmon High School students, under the direction of teachers, Dr. Terry Magoon and Mike Crosby, interviewed regional residents, conducted archival research, and created a series of historical journals invaluable to the history of this state. This is one of the few editions still available. |
Cobalt: The Legacy of the Blackbird Mine
By Russell Steele
Paperback - 97 pages
$14.95
Mining and the search for mineral wealth has been a major factor in the history of the Blackbird Canyon, starting with the discovery of copper and gold in the 1800s, and then cobalt, a strategic mineral during WWI, WWII and Korean War. This book is a chronologic history of the Blackbird Mine, starting with the discovery of copper by a native american, ending with clean up of the environmental damage created by human activity in the canyon. Steele shares with readers what it was like to live and work at the Blackbird. He tells his family stories and those families that participated in creating the Blackbird legacy.
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The Potts' Factor Versus Murphy's Law
By Stanley Potts
Paperback - 191 pages
$23.50
In this, the beginning of a great series, Stanley Potts describes a lifetime of adventures (and misadventures) in the difficult back country of Idaho, Nevada, and Alaska. |
Look Down On The Stars
By Stanley Potts
Paperback - 166 pages
$19.50
In his second book, Stanley Potts offers rich detail of a lifetime in the remote and often forbidding lands of the American West. |
The Potts Factor's Return
By Stanley Potts
Paperback - 163 pages
$20.00
Book three of the Potts series is drawn from his seven decades in the wilds of the American West. |
Ghost Towns of Idaho: The Search for El Dorado
By Bruce A. Raisch
Paperback - 160 pages
$21.95
Take a quick tour of Idaho’s many ghost towns with Bruce A. Raisch. Replete with photos and anecdotes, Raisch acknowledges, “This book is a reflection and project, not just of thousands of road miles and as many hours of research, but of Idaho and its own people. The beauty of this State, the richness of its history, and the friendliness of its people made this book not only possible but also a lot of fun to research and write.”
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Salmon River Memories: Pioneers, Characters, and Great Neighbors
By Boyd Rood
Paperback -122 pages
$14.00
Enjoy “The way it was—memories, pictures, and some history of a portion of the Idaho that is the Salmon River Country. The book describes early pioneer life in the homeland of Sacajawea . . .
‘You will laugh, you will cry, and maybe, just maybe, you will have a longing for life in the ‘good old days.’’ The author grew up on a cattle ranch sixty miles west of Salmon and had first-hand experiences of ‘the way it was.’”
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A Short History of the Honey Bee: Humans, Flowers, and Bees in the Eternal Chase for Honey
By E. Readicker-Henderson (text) and Ilona (photography)
Hardcover - 163 pages
$19.95
“Combining gorgeous photography and engaging text, A Short History of the Honey Bee follows the journey from flower to hive to honey throughout history—including chapters on beekeeping, how hives work, turning nectar into honey, and why the honey bee’s well-being is vital to us all.”
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Thomas Savage is one of the finest authors of the twentieth century. The strength of his characters, his depiction of the American West and his sense of this place resonate throughout his work, instilling in the reader the feelings of hope, betrayal, anger, passion, happiness, and longing that emanate from the overpowering landscape that is the American West.
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The Pass
By Thomas Savage
Edited by O. Alan Weltzien
Paperback -335 pages
$12.95
Savage’s first novel sets the stage for a half-century of fascinating characters and compelling plots. According to Annie Proulx, his work captures, “family complexity of names, identities, of east coast culture and western mountains, of manual labor and writing, of a lost past and private secrets.”
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The Corner of Rife and Pacific
By Thomas Savage
Paperback - 226 pages
$18.00
“John Metlen, once a successful rancher and the proud proprietor of the town’s first hotel, sees his family tumble from prosperity to near indigence. Martin Connard, the tough, aggressive patriarch of the town’s banking family, ruthlessly presides over his clan’s ever-increasing wealth and power. As the complex relationships of their families intertwine over the course of thirty years, one woman will emerge at the center—a woman who shockingly flouts convention to save what she loves.”
“Somewhere south of Butte—east of Salmon, Idaho, and near the center of Thomas Savage’s imagination—lies the town of Grayling, Montana.”
(Chicago Tribune) |
The Power of the Dog
By Thomas Savage
Paperback - 293 pages
$18.00
“Set in 1920s Montana, this compelling domestic drama tells the story of two brothers—and of the woman and young boy, mother and son, whose arrival on the brothers’ ranch shatters an already tenuous peace. From the novel’s startling first paragraph to its very last word, Thomas Savage’s voice—and the intense passion and cruelty of his characters—holds readers in thrall.”
Museum staff: This is one of the finest books we have ever read, and we recommend it highly. |
The Sheep Queen
By Thomas Savage
Paperback - 242 pages
$13.95
“Her name was Elizabeth, and she was an American princess as surely as her mother, the invincible Emma Russell Sweringen, was the ‘Sheep Queen of Idaho.’ Old-timers in Idaho, Utah, and Montana still remember the Sheep Queen with love and awe. And Elizabeth? ‘I have only twice in my life seen women as beautiful,’ her son recalls, ‘and both of them were strangers.’”
The Sheep Queen of Idaho, originally published under the title, I Heard My Sister Speak My Name, “is a magnificent chronicle of five generations of an American ranching dynasty who shared a unity and a heritage which made the family all but impregnable—and of the shy beauty who, by one act, threatened that unity and became a stranger even to herself. It is the story, unforgettable, incredible, but true, of a child who never knew her, but devoted half a lifetime to seeking her secret out.
“. . . Thomas Savage speaks directly to every adopted child among us. He speaks, eloquently, to those who have been raised in the American West and have experienced the joy and loneliness of ranch life. He speaks, with compassion, honesty and hope, to parents fearful of the future or regretful about the past. Indeed, this timeless novel speaks to us all.”
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Our Most Exalted Recipes
Elks’ Auxiliary of Salmon, Idaho, Lodge #1620
Binder/hardback - 111 pages with additional cooking tips and terms
$12.00
This extensive collection brings the flavorful foods of some of Lemhi County, Idaho’s, best cooks to your own kitchens. It is designed to allow you add your own to the binder.
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