# Bibliography of Idaho history

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.

## 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
* 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.

### Hayden Geological Survey (1871)

* Hayden, F. V. (1880). The Great West: Its Attractions and Resources, Containing a Popular Description of the Marvelous Scenery, Physical Geography, Fossils and Glaciers of the Wonderful Region, and the Recent Explorations of the Yellowstone Park, "The Wonderland of America". Bloomington, IL: Charles R. Brodix.
* Merrill, Marlene Deahl, ed. (1999). Yellowstone and the Great West-Journals, Letters and Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-3148-2.

### Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806)

* Ambrose, Stephen E. (1996). Undaunted Courage. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-81107-3.
* Russell, Steve F. (2007). Lewis and Clark Across the Mountains: Mapping the Corps of Discovery in Idaho. Boise, ID: Idaho State Historical Society Press. ISBN 978-0-931406-16-4.

## 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.

### Primary sources

* Miles, Nelson A. (1896). Personal Reflections and Observations of Nelson A. Miles. Chicago: The Werner Company.
* Report of special commissioners J. W. Powell and G. W. Ingalls on the condition of the Ute Indians of Utah; the Pai-Utes of Utah, northern Arizona, southern Nevada, and southeastern California; the Go-si Utes of Utah and Nevada; the northwestern Shoshones of Idaho and Utah; and the western Shoshones of Nevada (PDF) (Report). U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. 1873.

## 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.
* 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.

### Memoirs and primary sources

* Bonney, Orrin H.; Bonney, Lorraine (1970). Battle Drums and Geysers-The Life and Journals of Lt. Gustavus Cheyney Doane, Soldier and Explorer of the Yellowstone and Snake River Regions. Chicago: Swallow Press.
* Taylor, Glen Hearst (1979). The Way It Was With Me. L. Stuart. ISBN 0-8184-0288-1.

## 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.