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The following works deal with the cultural, political, economic, military, biographical and geologic history of pre-territorial Idaho, Idaho Territory and the State of Idaho.

Contents

• Surveys of Idaho history
• Historic expeditions
• Hayden Geological Survey (1871)
• Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806)
• Business and labor
• Indians
• Military histories
• Primary sources
• Local and regional histories
• Law and order
• Ghost towns
• Biographies
• Memoirs and primary sources
• Political histories
• Social history
• Geology
• See also
• Notes
• Bibliographies

Surveys of Idaho history

• Aiken, Katherine; Kevin R. Marsh; Laura Woodworth-Ney (2006). Idaho: The Heroic Journey. Cherbo Publishing Group. ISBN   1-882933-73-7.
• Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1890). The History of Washington, Idaho and Montana (1845-1889) Vol XXXI. San Francisco, CA: The History Company.
• Bronsan, Cornelius J. (1918). History of the state of Idaho. New York: C. Scribner's sons.
• Idaho: The Place and Its People; a History of the Gem State from Prehistoric to Present Days: 3 Volumes. Chicago: American Historical Society. 1933.
• Elliott, Wallace W. (1884). History of Idaho Territory Showing Its Resources and Advantages; With Illustrations Descriptive of Its Scenery, Residences, Farms, Mines, Mills. San Francisco: Ye Galleon Press.
• Fisher, Vardis, ed. (1938). The Idaho Encyclopedia:Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. Works Progress Administration.
• French, Hiram T. (1914). History of Idaho: a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests (PDF). Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co. Volume 2,
• Hailey, John (1910). The history of Idaho (PDF). Boise, ID: Press of Syms-York Company, Inc.
• Hawley, James Henry (1920). History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains (Volume 1) (PDF). Chicago: The S. J. Clarke publishing company. Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4
• McConnell, William John (1913). Early history of Idaho (PDF). Caldwell, ID: Caxton Press.
• Schwantes, Carlos Arnaldo (1991). In Mountain Shadows: A History of Idaho. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN   0-8032-9241-4.

Historic expeditions

• Engelmann, George; Forwood, William Henry; Gray, Asa; Gregory, James F.; Sheridan, Philip Henry (1882). Report of an exploration of parts of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana in August and September, 1882 /made by Lieut. Gen. P. H. Sheridan, commanding the Military division of the Missouri, with the itinerary of Col. Jas. F. Gregory, and a geological and botanical report by W. H. Forwood (PDF). Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
• Mattes, Merrill J. (1970). Colter's Hell & Jackson's Hole: The Fur Trapper's Exploration of the Yellowstone and Grand Teton Park Region. Gardiner, MT: Yellowstone Library and Museum Association and Grand Teton Natural History Association.
• Work, John (1923). Lewis, William S.; Paul C. Phillips (eds.). The Journal of John Work, A Chief Trader of the Hudson's Bay Co., During His Expedition From Vancouver to the Flatheads and Blackfeet of the Pacific Northwest. Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company.

Business and labor

• Aiken, Katherine G. (2005). Idaho's Bunker Hill: the rise and fall of a great mining company, 1885-1981. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN   0-8061-3682-0.

Indians

• Arnold, R. Ross (1932). Indian Wars of Idaho. Caldwell, ID: Caxton Press.
• Eells, Myron; George Henry Atkinson (1882). History of Indian missions on the Pacific Coast: Oregon, Washington and Idaho (PDF). Philadelphia: The American Sunday-School Union.
• McBeth (1908). The Nez Perces since Lewis and Clark (PDF). New York: F. H. Revell Co.
• Murphy, Robert F.; Yolanda Murphy (1986). "Northern Shoshone and Bannock". In Warren L. D'Azevedo (ed.). Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 11: Great Basin. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. ISBN   978-0-16-004581-3.
• Franklin County Historical Society (Idaho) (1917). The passing of the redman, being a succinct account of the last battle that wrested Idaho from the bondage of the Indians (PDF). Preston, ID: Franklin County Historical Society and Monument Committee.

Military histories

• Brown, Colonel W. C. (1926). The Sheepeater Campaign: Idaho 1879. Idaho Historical Society.
• Greene, Jerome A. (2000). Nez Perce Summer-The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis. Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society Press. ISBN   0-917298-68-3.
• Hampton, Bruce (1994). Children of Grace-The Nez Perce War of 1877. New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN   0-8050-1991-X.
• Kip, Lawrence (1859). Army Life on the Pacific; A Journal of the Expedition Against the Northern Indians, the Tribes of the Coeur D'Alenes, Spokans, and Pelouzes, in the Summer of 1858. New York: Redfield.
• West, Elliott (2009). The last Indian war: the Nez Perce story. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-513675-3.

Local and regional histories

• Beal, Merrill D.) (1942). History of Southeastern Idaho. Caldwell, ID: Caxton Press.
• Elsensohn, Sister M. Alfreda (1947). Pioneer Days in Idaho County. Cladwell, ID: Claxton Press.
• Russell, Bert (1978). Hardships and Happy Times in Idaho's St. Joe Wilderness as Told By the Old Timers. Harrison, ID: Lacon Publishers. ISBN   0-930344-04-9.
• Vardis Fisher, ed. (1937). Idaho: A Guide in Word and Picture: Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. Works Progress Administration.
• An illustrated history of north Idaho: embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho (PDF). Western Historical Pub. Co. 1903.

Law and order

• Langford, Nathaniel Pitt (1893). Vigilante Days and Ways-The Pioneers of the Rockies-the makers and making of Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming (PDF). New York: D. D. Merrill.

Ghost towns

• Florin, Lambert (1971). Montana, Idaho and Wyoming: Ghost Towns. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company.
• Webb, Todd (1961). Gold Strikes and Ghost Towns . Garden City, NJ: Doubleday and Co.
• Weis, Norman D. (1972). Ghost Towns of the Northwest. Caldwell, ID: University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press. ISBN   0-87004-201-7.

Biographies

• Ashby, Leroy (1994). Fighting the Odds: The Life of Senator Frank Church. Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press. ISBN   978-0-87422-103-9.
• The Historical Encyclopedia of Wyoming. Cheyenne, WY: Wyoming Historical Institute. 1970. ^[1]
• Mumey, Nolie (1972). The Life Of Jim Baker 1818-1898. New York: Interland Publishing.
• Scherer, Joanna Cohan (2006). A Danish Photographer of Idaho Indians: Benedicte Wrensted . Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN   978-0-8061-3684-4.
• Scott, Kim Allen (2007). Yellowstone Denied-The Life of Gustavus Cheyney Doane. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN   978-0-8061-3800-8.
• Smallwood, William L. (2007). Mcclure of Idaho. Caldwell, ID: Caxton Press. ISBN   978-0-87004-458-8.

Political histories

• Colson, Dennis C. (1991). Idaho's Constitution: The Tie That Binds. Caldwell, ID: Caxton Press. ISBN   0-89301-265-3.
• Limbaugh, Ronald H. (1982). Rocky Mountain Carpetbaggers: Idaho's Territorial Governors, 1863-1890. Moscow, ID: Idaho Research Foundation. ISBN   0-89301-082-0.
• Stapilis, Randy (2005). Governing Idaho: Politics, People, and Power. Caldwell, ID: Caxton Press. ISBN   0-87004-447-8.
• Stapilis, Randy (2009). Paradox Politics: People and Power in Idaho. Carlton, OR: Ridenbaugh Press. ISBN   978-0-9824668-0-3.

Social history

• Fetherling, Douglas (1988). The Gold Crusades: A social history of the gold rushes 1849-1929. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press. ISBN   0-8020-8046-4.
• Johnstone, Rachel S. (2009). Inmates of the Idaho Penitentiary 1864-1947. Idaho State Historical Society Press.

Geology

• Eldridge, George Homans (1895). A geological reconnaissance across Idaho (PDF) (Report). U.S. Geological Survey Annual Report. 16.
• Lindgren, Waldemar (1898). The mining districts of the Idaho basin and the Boise ridge, Idaho (PDF). Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.

See also

• Bibliography of Montana history
• Bibliography of Wyoming history
• Bibliography of Yellowstone National Park
• List of bibliographies on American history

Notes

Bibliographies

• American Imprints No. 13: A Checklist of Idaho Imprints (1838-1890). American Imprints Inventory. Chicago: WPA Historical Records Survey. 1940.
• Rees, John E. (1918). Idaho chronology, nomenclature, bibliography (PDF). Chicago: W.B. Conkey Co.
• Idaho Bibliography Project (uidaho.edu)
• Idaho State Guide: Print Bibliography (loc.gov)
• Peterson, C. Stewart. (1961). "Idaho" Consolidated bibliography of county histories in fifty States. 2d ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co.. pp. 27–28
• Idaho Federal Writers' Project (1937). "A Selected Bibliography". Idaho, a guide in word and picture. Prelinger Library. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers. pp. 415–418.