Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-05-13
HISTORY
SOON READY
IdahO'S First Historian
Has Book Ready for
Press

What will doubtless stand for
years as the most complete history of
Idahn,' says the Boise Statesman,
and Ghe foundation for all future his
/ torians that pretend to go into the
statistical details of terrid orial gov
eminent in Idaho, has been practically
! completed by John HALEY, recently
appointed custodian of the Idaho His
torical society
Mr.. HALEY, who came here in 1863
was one of the typical frontiersmen-
brave, alert seeing everything there
was to see and of a keen, scrutiniz-
ing mind. He came to Idaho a year
or two after the first rush for gold--
almost two years, in fact, after the
gold hunters had began to pour inS)
north Idaho--but his residence COW
ers most of the Boise basin and
Southern idaho history under the first
white regime. And what he did not ac-
hear of and remember More than
that, he has been a reader of every
thing that fell into his hands. an en-
thusiast on everything that pertained
to Idaho, and has spent years search
ing old official records, old newspa-
pers, old reports of whatever kind that
told of the early days here. This un-
remitting toll has borne fruit in the
volume which it is expected will soon
be issued under his name as his real
monument in Idaho.
Facts, Not Fiction.
"Mr HALEY is not a novelist. Hts
work is plain and unadorned as a gov
eminent report. 1t is a simple MARIA
/ tive OF things as they actually were
at the time of which he wrote. A
/ first glance at the style might mislead
the casual reader into believing that
it was merely reminiscent-which it
is not. Mr.. HALEY has written of the
times in which he lived but he has
fortified the story by years of re-
search among the best authorities
available, until the events, some of
them prosaic enough in their state
ments are sealed with the mark OF
historic truth. 1t is dim and far
off time of which he tells, especially
the first beginning of Idaho. But one
can read the book and feel that the
times are correctly mirrored, lacking
nothing but the glamour of the gold
hunters romance that the novelist
could not help but put into anything
he might write of the same period.
Ready for Publishers.
1.-THE work is to consist of about 81
chapters, covering the entire history
of the territory up to the date OF ad'
mission as state. Some OF the chap
ters are very short; others. like the
Indian wars that left trail OF blood
across the territory, are written II
] with very full detail. 1t gives espe'
: cial attention to the legislative ant
! governmental history and Is believed
to contain the name of every office
who held office under the territorial
government.
"Mr. HALEY has not yet made ar
engagements for publishing the BOOB
but the manuscript is practically com
pleted. Mrs. Cartee, his daughter. ha
served as his amanuensis and critic j
i the work, and it has been well don'
3 The book should find very large pop
ular demand all over the state,
\ well as through the West, for its fair
ness and accuracy, as well as for tn
\ reason that it is so different frol
3 the paid write up" histories that haV
been almost the only historical litera
& ture Of the state, and they are histor'
cal for a price without painful .
gard for the truth"