num_pages: 394
description: In 1893 this site at turbulent Canyon Creek was a footnote in the saga of the ill-fated Carlin hunting party. Next in 1933 it housed nearly 200 tent-dwelling Civilian Conservation Corps recruits most of whom were 'city slickers' from New YorkState whose antics provide a colourful tableau of young men on their own and far from home. In 1935 the site became Federal Prison Camp No. 11 a roadbuilding facility for convicts mostly from the Leavenworth Kansas penitentiary. This text explores some intriguing history of Idaho's wild and scenic Lochsa River.
language: English
title: As Rugged as the Terrain: CCC "Boys," Federal Convicts, and World War II Alien Internees Wrestle with a Mountain Wilderness
publisher: Caxton Press